Feminist Economic Justice Convening

A Collective Feminist Agenda for People and Planet

Rabat, Morocco

16-19 May 2025

WHY THIS MEETING?

Global Convening and Strategy Session on Economic and Climate Justice

Infusing both economic and climate policy debates with a decolonial feminist lens is politically imperative to advance global and regional struggles towards rights and justice. To create space for strategizing, foster global linkages, and set a foundation for advocacy infused by global South feminist analysis, particularly from the MENA region, a group of feminist and allied organizations convened this gathering in Rabat, Morocco, immediately following a three-day feminist economics school led by MENAFem. Grounded in community and building collective power to counter neoliberal, extractivist, white supremacist and patriarchal hegemony, the convening identified steps to advance feminist alternatives that center care for people and planet. 

Building constituency for structural feminist analysis

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.

Creating space for group strategizing, plenary reflection, and networking

The Rabat Roadmap: an action agenda for collective advocacy

The global convening resulted in the Rabat 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, this document will outline what we want to achieve in the next two years and how we intend to work together towards feminist economic and climate justice, across a range of policy arenas at regional and global levels. A drafting team in the MENA region is currently finalizing the Roadmap: stay tuned for the final declaration and advocacy map, coming soon!

AGENDA

1) Opening Plenary: Grounding

Keynote remarks will set the context for the convening, grounding participants in a systemic feminist approach to economic and climate justice.

2) Framing Plenary & Small Group Sessions: Dreaming

Creating space for radical visions of the future, this feminist worldmaking session will envision, through an anticolonial perspective, what a world looks like where our demands (for the social organization of care, degrowth, and new forms of solidarity) are met.

3) Small Group Strategizing: Demands

With a focus on the next two years, this world cafe session will articulate the alternatives we as structural feminists are advancing. Specific thematic formations will include debt and ending austerity; tax and gender justice; climate finance; and democratizing global economic governance.

4) Framing Plenary: Reimagining our Multilateral System

What’s our role as feminists in reforming, transforming, or abandoning the multilateral arena? How do we advance our demands in policy spaces we know are failing our ecosystem and our movement–and how do we actually create alternatives?

5) Small Group Strategizing: Policy Spaces

This fishbowl will examine the opportunities and institutions facing us, from FfD IV to COP30 as well as the UN Tax Convention and annual processes around the G20/G7, WTO, and the IMF/World Bank. 

6) Working Plenary: The Rabat Roadmap

Based on the discussions and strategies emerging from the two days of the workshop, we will collectively compile and agree our vision on how to advance concrete demands in economic and climate policy spaces, from a feminist perspective, over the next two years.  

7) Framing Plenary: Feminist Movement-Building 

Grounding ourselves in women’s and people’s movements, particularly in the MENA region, we will close with highlighting concrete strategies to counter the rise of fascism and increasing militarization; strengthen our resolve as structural feminists; and envision new forms of solidarity in the shifting landscape of multilateralism and international “development.”

Meet some of the activists joining us in Rabat:

The Global Feminist Convening will bring together approximately 50 feminists primarily from the global Majority, with a third of those rooted in the MENA region. Working across economic and climate justice, from grassroots and international organizations, participants were invited from across a range of backgrounds and lived experiences.

  • Azza Soliman

    Center for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance

  • Gina Cortés Valderrama

    Independent climate activist & degrowth scholar

  • Attiya Waris

    UN Independent Expert on foreign debt & human rights

  • Faith Lumonya

    Akina Mama wa Afrika

  • Amine Kharrat

    Al Bawsala

  • Mariama Williams

    Global Afro-Descendant Climate Justice Collaborative

  • Shady Khalil

    Oil Change International

Resources

Downloadable Briefs

A Blueprint for Feminist Economic Justice, by Diyana Yahaya

A Feminist Decolonial Global Green New Deal, by Bhumika Muchhala

Policy Demands of the Feminist Action Nexus

2024 Critical Trends on Feminist Economic and Climate Justice

Beyond Extractivism: Toward a Feminist and Just Economic Transition in Morocco and Egypt, by MENAFem Movement & Greenpeace MENA

Videos

Transforming Vision into Action: Embracing a Feminist Perspective for Economic and Climate Justice

Let’s Talk Economic Justice! with the Despise Girls, featuring Shereen Talaat

Launch of the 2024 Critical Trends Report

Navigating the Intertwined Debt and Climate Crises: Unveiling and Assessing Solutions (Afrodad TV)

System Change for People and Planet: Teach-in on Degrowth & Feminist Alternatives

Blogs & Analysis

COP29 Feminist Reflections: Hold the line in resistance and towards re-existence, by gina cortés valderrama

80 Years of Broken Promises: Feminist Reflections on the World Bank and IMF

2024 Gender IFI Summer School (Bretton Woods Project et al)

New feminist and anti-racist social contracts for people and the planet, by Christian Aid and allies

Convened by:

Organized in cooperation with Akina Mama wa Afrika, Bretton Woods Project, Christian Aid, Center for Economic and Social Rights, and Gender and Development Network (GADN), and the Global Afrodescendant Climate Justice Collaborative.