Feminist Economic Justice Convening
A Collective Feminist Agenda for People and Planet
Rabat, Morocco
16-19 May 2025
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 Declaration and Roadmap: an action agenda for collective advocacy
The global convening resulted in the Rabat Declaration and 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, the Declaration outlines a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation, and sovereignty of the Global Majority.
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Accompanying the Declaration is the Rabat Roadmap, which offers paths forward for collective advocacy towards feminist economic and climate justice, across a range of policy arenas at regional and global levels. Explore the Roadmap below, and let us know how you intend to use this tool in your advocacy by emailing katie@wedo.org and shereen@menafemmovement.org.
More About the Rabat Outcomes
Launch of the Rabat Roadmap for Feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation (Arabic)
Outcomes from the Rabat Convening: A Collective Feminist Agenda for People and Plane
Launch of the Rabat Roadmap for Feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation (English)
Meet some of the activists WHO JOINED us in Rabat:
The Global Feminist Convening brought 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.
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Attiya Waris
UN Independent Expert on foreign debt & human rights
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Nada Nashat
Center for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance
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Gina Cortés Valderrama
Independent climate activist & degrowth scholar
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Fatna Afid
CDT-Maroc
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Nannyondo Sarah Okello
Akina Mama wa Afrika
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Amine Kharrat
Al Bawsala
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Mariama Williams
Global Afro-Descendant Climate Justice Collaborative
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Hend Salem
Elles Publishing House
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.