Seville, Spain — On the margins of the Fourth Worldwide Convention on Financing for Improvement (FfD4), the African Girls Leaders Community (AWLN) convened a robust Excessive-Stage Facet Occasion titled: “Bridging the World Financing Hole: African Girls’s Management for Financial Justice and Efficient Implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030.”
The occasion befell on the FIBES Convention & Exhibition Middle in Seville, Spain, at a vital time when the world faces widening financing gaps, entrenched inequalities, and unsustainable debt burdens—significantly in rising and growing economies.
This gathering positioned a highlight on African girls as central drivers of transformative change within the international financing structure. It emphasised that addressing right now’s international challenges requires an inclusive strategy rooted in justice, fairness, and solidarity. In her opening remarks, AWLN Co-Convener H.E. Mme Bineta Diop underscored the urgency of recognizing girls’s financial rights, stating, “We’re advocating for entry to capital, to land, to markets, and to boardrooms. Not as a favor, however for granted.”
Keynote speaker H.E. Cristina Duarte, UN Beneath-Secretary-Common and Particular Adviser on Africa confused that structural reforms should heart girls’s entry to productive belongings and impactful decision-making roles. H.E. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-Common of the United Nations, bolstered this imaginative and prescient, declaring, “We aren’t simply talking up—we’re altering the system.”
The session featured a high-level panel moderated by Justice Meaza Ashenafi Mengistu, former President of the Federal Supreme Court docket of Ethiopia, and Dr. Loubna Karroum, CEO of KARDEV, who co-chair the AWLN Financial and Monetary Inclusion (EcoFin) Pillar. Panelists included H.E. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, former President of the Republic of Mauritius and AWLN Elder; H.E. Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, CEO of AUDA-NEPAD; Dr. James Mwangi, CEO of Fairness Group Holdings, who confused the significance of viewing funding in gender equality as impactful for financial rights and progress, not solely a social profit; Dr. Fatima Farouk Elsheikh, Secretary-Common of BADEA; and Dr. Jide Okeke, Director of the UNDP Regional Programme for Africa. The dialogue addressed modern and inclusive financing fashions, the position of ladies in home useful resource mobilization (DRM), gender fairness in financial governance, and boundaries to girls’s entry to capital and land.
The occasion highlighted that sustainable improvement can’t be achieved with out monetary programs that empower girls and promote fairness.
Key outcomes included a robust name for the reform of worldwide monetary programs by way of a gender fairness lens, the event of a post-FfD4 advocacy roadmap, and renewed momentum for strategic partnerships between AWLN and monetary establishments. The occasion reaffirmed AWLN’s position as a number one African platform in international dialogues on financial justice and monetary governance.
Audio system and contributors collectively emphasised that African girls are indispensable in attaining sustainable peace, financial progress, and resilience. From driving agricultural productiveness to shaping climate-responsive finance and public funding, girls play important roles. Nonetheless, restricted entry to land, finance, and formal financial programs continues to hinder this potential. AWLN confused the necessity to take away these structural boundaries and guarantee women-led MSMEs have entry to Africa’s vibrant home monetary markets.
The occasion additionally bolstered the significance of gender stability in international decision-making buildings. AWLN echoed the draft FfD4 final result doc’s name to make sure gender parity on the manager boards of worldwide organizations by way of strategic nominations, whereas additionally advocating for bottom-up methods to assist and useful resource girls leaders in any respect ranges.
Organized by AWLN in collaboration with the African Union, UN-OSAA, UNDP, BADEA, and AUDA-NEPAD, this aspect occasion underscored that financial transformation have to be inclusive and African-led. It contributed meaningfully to the FfD4 agenda and to broader efforts aimed toward implementing each Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Improvement Targets.
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About AWLN:
The African Girls Leaders Community (AWLN), established in 2017, is a continental platform that promotes girls’s management for sustainable peace and improvement throughout all sectors and ranges. It builds on current girls’s networks, with the assist of the African Union and the United Nations. AWLN showcases the management of African girls and goals to strengthen their participation in decision-making processes by way of methods similar to mentoring and peer studying, bolstered solidarity, advocacy, and capability constructing.
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