Global Convening and Strategy Session on Economic and Climate Justice
In May 2025, MENAFem, along with a group of feminist and allied organizations, gathered in Rabat, Morocco to strategize, foster global linkages, and set a foundation for advocacy infused by global South feminist analysis that counters neoliberal, extractivist, white supremacist and patriarchal hegemony. The convening identified steps to advance feminist alternatives that center care for people and planet.
Through a mix of plenary sessions, workshops, and ample time and space for informal networking, the workshop offered space to grapple with the current geopolitical context of increasing militarism, genocide, fascism and anti-rights narratives and policies, as well as the continued erosion of multilateralism. Sessions explored specific macroeconomic policy arenas, particularly tax, debt, and global economic governance, as well as climate justice and their interconnections.
Together the participants worked towards a conceptual framing to guide collective advocacy through major policy spaces in 2025, particularly the Fourth Conference on Financing for Development (FfDIV) and the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) of the UNFCCC. Fifty participants (two thirds of which were from Southwest Asia and the African continent) engaged in deep strategy work and systemic analysis, across Arabic and English, towards collective visioning of feminist and decolonial alternatives to our current economic order.
The Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: an action agenda for collective advocacy
The global convening resulted in the Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: a feminist advocacy agenda for economic and climate justice in this pivotal year and beyond. Building from the foundation of existing feminist structural analysis and the expertise of the participants, the Declaration outlines a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation, and sovereignty of the Global Majority.
You can read the Declaration in Arabic and English and endorse it (as an organization or individual) by signing this form
Accompanying the Declaration is the Rabat Roadmap, which offers paths forward for collective advocacy towards feminist economic and climate justice, across a range of policy arenas at regional and global levels. You can download the Roadmap here.