Programs

  • Gender Action Advocacy and Research

    In 2024 Gender Actions program accomplishments included:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Mandalika Project: Gender Action organized and published a major case study at the end of 2024 calling for improved development investments. The case study, researched by two Indonesian civil society partner groups INDIES and SERUNI together with IBON International and Gender Action, demonstrates intersectional gender and ecological harms caused by the AIIBs Mandalika Urban Tourism Infrastructure Project located on Lombok Island. Our field research shows how the AIIB transformed pristine beach areas into a corporate tourism hub modeled after Bali. We show how Mandalika undermined indigenous womens livelihoods and drove them into debt to survive; destroyed the fisheries, mangroves, forests, paddy fields, and other biodiversity which sustained local livelihoods and cultural traditions; and degraded ecosystems. Commitments to maintain biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods were not kept. Mandalika used military and police to harass women and girls through uninvited home visits. It disproportionately benefits private sector tourist corporations that profit from new roads, hotels, and utilities including electricity and water, while displaced indigenous communities, especially women, bear social costs such as lack of water, additional unpaid care and loss of natural resources that had sustained livelihoods before Mandalika. We recommend defending human rights civil, political, economic, and cultural of affected peoples, especially women and all IPs; ceasing militarization and intimidation; and addressing harmful gender and ecological impacts. We disseminated and presented the report findings to AIIB Board members and management.International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Campaign: Gender Action co-led a campaign calling on the World Banks private window the IFC and the World Bank Groups Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) to create a Remedial Action Framework (RAF) to provide remedy to people harmed by their projects. The RAF focuses on prevention, preparedness, and remedial action. The RAF applies to all IFC-supported investment projects and all investment projects covered by MIGA political risk insurance (PRI) guarantees for which a complaint could be found eligible under the CAO Policy.A sampling of 2024 Gender Action co-sponsored and presented at include:Climate and Gender World Bank trajectoryForum: Outside World Bank Annual MeetingsOctober 23, 2024Sponsor: Big Shift Global; Climate Reality Project; UrgewaldWe Need a Global United Front Movement to Transform the Global Financial ArchitectureForum: Resist & Revive: A Night of Feminist Art and Beats Advocacy Around the World Bank and IMF!Date: October 22, 2024Sponsors: Womens Environment and Development OrganizationEnd the Bretton Woods Institutions gender, energy and other privatization activitiesForum: Towards justice and transformationDate: October 8, 2024Sponsor: IBON InternationalGender and FinancialisationForum: Gender IFI Online Summer School 2024Date: September 2, 2024Bretton Woods ProjectThe World Bank Groups 2024-30 Gender Strategys Problematic Privatization FrameworkForum: Civil Society Meeting with the US Government OfficialsDate: July 16, 2024Bank Information CenterIs the 50 Years is Enough Campaign on the Bank and Fund Relevant Today?Forum: Addressing Global South Climate-Debt BurdensDate: April 18, 2024Sponsors: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; Institute for Policy Studies; Partners In Health; Womens Environment and Development OrganizationFinancing Gender Equality - the Multilateral Development BanksForum: Global Days of Action for Tax Justice for WomenDate: March 20, 2024Sponsors: Gender Action; Global Alliance for Tax Justice; SEATINI Uganda; Seinoli Legal Centre Lesotho; Centre for Applied Legal Studies South Africa
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
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