17 April 2009
On International Women’s Day the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced its sponsorship of the first Gender Investment Index series, an initiative of its Gender Entrepreneurship Markets programme devised to mainstream gender into IFC work.
No gender organisations appear to be involved. Meanwhile US-based NGO, Gender Action, released a resource on climate change, the first in a series on issues that have gender impacts.
At the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, global civil society must maintain pressure on the Brazilian and South African G20 presidencies to ensure the forth Financing for Development Conference in 2025 results in urgently required international financial architecture reform.
Multilateral development banks can reduce their dependence on hard currency lending and make local currency financing a central element of their developmental mandate.
