Webinar 2: 

INSIGHTS AND ACTION POINTS from webinar on
GENDER LENS ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT: TAX JUSTICE FOR GENDER EQUALITY

• Caroline Othim, Campaigns & Policy Coordinator – Africa, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Co-coordinator Gender & Tax Working Group, Kenya highlighted taxation as the only sustainable source of finance for public services; the need by developing countries to focus their energies on domestic resource mobilization through taxation; and how amounts lost to harmful tax practices can be used to invest in FFD and in quality, public services.
   
• Kathleen Lahey, Professor and Queen's National Scholar, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Co-director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen's, Canada
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• Resina Katafono, Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs focused on gender and domestic public finance by addressing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda: Commitments and Follow-Up, gender responsive budgeting (GRB), the gendered implications of tax, the Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) Recommendations and the impact of COVID-19.
   
• Gea Meijers, Coordinator, Women in Development Europe Plus (WIDE+) stressed the importance of integrating gendered tax recommendations into other agendas where macro-economic policies are shaped – especially looking at multilateral spaces and regional policies, next to the UN as a global space where the Financing for Development agenda is shaped as well as the Beijing+25 Platform for Action.

• Join an alliance:
   - Feminist Task Force – focus on feminization of poverty with entry points into Economic Justice & Rights Action Coalition – Denne emailadresse er beskyttet mod programmer som samler emailadresser. Du skal aktivere javascript for at kunne se adressen.   Denne emailadresse er beskyttet mod programmer som samler emailadresser. Du skal aktivere javascript for at kunne se adressen.
  -  K.U.L.U. - Women and Development - for women’s and girls’ rights in development – Denne emailadresse er beskyttet mod programmer som samler emailadresser. Du skal aktivere javascript for at kunne se adressen.   Denne emailadresse er beskyttet mod programmer som samler emailadresser. Du skal aktivere javascript for at kunne se adressen.
  - Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development – mailto: Denne emailadresse er beskyttet mod programmer som samler emailadresser. Du skal aktivere javascript for at kunne se adressen.
  - Global Alliance for Tax Justice’s Tax and Gender Working Group: Globaltaxjustice.org - Make taxes work for women
   
• Global Days of Action for Tax Justice Amidst the COVID-Induced Crisis, 14-17 September 2020 www.globaltaxjustice.org
• Tax Justice and Women´s Rights Teach In, 90-minute online session, Thursday 17th Sept. Deadline for registration 4 September - RSVP here

• KULU-FemTaskForce ‘Finance Gender Equality and Women's Rights - Close the Gap', September activities:
  - Finance Gender Equality & Women’s Rights – Close the Gap Consultation and Strategy Sessions (Date: TBD)

• KULU-FemTaskForce 'Finance Gender Equality and Women's Rights - Close the Gap', Primer 1 Gender Lens on Financing for Development: Equality and Women's Rights Impacts
• KULU-FemTaskForce 'Finance Gender Equality and Women's Rights - Close the Gap', Primer 2 Gender Lens on Financing for Development: Tax Justice for Gender Equality
• Activism on Call for an International Economic Reconstruction and Systemic Reform Summit: https://csoforffd.org/2020/07/07/hlpf-side-event-time-for-a-un-economic-reconstruction-and-systemic-reform-summit/

• K.U.L.U. - Women and Development & The Equality Trust “Financing gender inequality: Why public-private partnerships leave women worse off” briefing
   
• Feminist Task Force “Feminization of Poverty” Primer: Feminist Task Force: Feminization of Poverty - Women at the Margins, 17 Oct. 2019
   
• Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) 2020 - Overview https://developmentfinance.un.org/sites/developmentfinance.un.org/files/FSDR2020_Overview.pdf
   
• FSDR 2020 Full text: https://developmentfinance.un.org/sites/developmentfinance.un.org/files/FSDR_2020.pdf
   
• Financing for Sustainable Development Reports: https://developmentfinance.un.org/report
   
• Beijing+25 Tax Justice Factsheet: Beijing 25 Tax Justice Fact Sheet https://wideplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Beijing-25-Tax-Justice-Fact-Sheet.pdf
   
• The Impact of Economic Reforms and Austerity Measures on women: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Development/IEDebt/WomenAusterity/UserFriendlyVersionReport_EN.pdf
   
• Fact Sheet - Gendered Impacts of Tax on Women:  https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/sites/default/files/2020%20GDOA%20Factsheet%20EN.pdf
   
• Lahey, Kathleen: Gender and Taxation and Equality in Developing Countries (UN Women 2018) https://gender-financing.unwomen.org/en/resources/g/e/n/gender-and-taxation-discussion-paper
   
• The Bogota Declaration on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/sites/default/files/EN_Bogota-Declaration-Tax-Justice-for-Womens-Rights.pdf
   
• Global Tax Body Sticking Point at Financing Conference in Addis: https://csoforffd.org/2015/07/11/global-tax-body-sticking-point-at-financing-conference-in-addis/
   
• Taxes Are a Matter of Human Rights https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/en/latest/taxes-are-matter-human-rights
   
• Tax Us If You Can (2012) – a guide to tax justice, no specific focus on women or FfD, but a basic glossary of terms and tax justice concepts
   
• Final study on illicit financial flows, human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (2016). This study does not focus on gender but explains the issue of illicit financial flows based on some Tax Justice Network work and links to the SDGs, CEDAW and initiatives like the Addis agenda.
   
• FEMNET: The Audacity to Disrupt: An Introduction to Feminist Macro-level Economics (2020): AFMA+resource+pack+-+The+audacity+to+disrupt+2020
   
• WIDE+ Position paper Feminists Speak Truth to Power in the Beijing+ 25 review: Building a coalition on economic rights and tax justice, 1 Feb. 2020: https://wideplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Feminists-speak-truth-to-power-in-Beijing-review-paper-1-Feb-2020-1.pdf
   
• ActionAid UK: From rhetoric to rights: towards gender-just trade: https://www.actionaid.org.uk/publications/from-rhetoric-to-rights-towards-gender-just-trade
   
• IMF/International Monetary Fund, 2005: “Dealing with the Revenue Consequences of Trade Reform.” Background paper for Review of Fund Work on Trade
   
• Citizens for Financial Justice events and resources: https://citizensforfinancialjustice.org