Financing Women's Access to Justice: Closing Gaps, Scaling Solutions | CSW70 Side Event
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Financing Women's Access to Justice: Closing Gaps, Scaling Solutions | CSW70 Side Event

🏛️ Financing Women's Access to Justice: Closing Gaps, Scaling Solutions brought together government ministers, civil society leaders, and public finance experts to examine the structural and fiscal barriers that prevent women and girls from realizing their legal rights. 💰 This high-level CSW70 side event explored how budgets, fiscal transparency, and accountability can enable justice systems to function for women and girls — and what it takes to move beyond policy commitments toward genuinely gender-transformative public finance. 🌍 Co-organized by the Governments of Malawi, Nigeria, and Spain alongside Girls Not Brides, UN-Women, and the International Budget Partnership, this dialogue tackled discriminatory laws, chronic underinvestment, regressive tax policies, and rising sovereign debt as compounding barriers to justice. 🎯 Essential viewing for policymakers, gender equality advocates, budget practitioners, and anyone committed to ensuring fiscal systems actively support women's rights. 🏛️ Press play and join the movement for justice that is financed, monitored, and delivered for all women and girls. ✨ 📊 Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction and Welcome | Zohra Khan, UN-Women (Moderator) 00:10 - Opening Address: Sergio Colina Martin, Spain 00:20 - Round 1: Why Justice Fails Without Financing — Fiscal and Structural Barriers 00:40 - Round 2: Financing Justice — Towards Gender-Transformative Public Finance 01:00 - Audience Q&A 01:20 - Closing Remarks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 IBP's Work on Gender-Responsive Budgeting: https://internationalbudget.org/resources/?_sft_topic=gender 🔗 Girls Not Brides: https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/ 🔗 UN-Women: https://www.unwomen.org/ 🔗 CSW70 Conference Resources: https://www.unwomen.org/en/how-we-work/commission-on-the-status-of-women/csw70-2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About This Channel Welcome to the International Budget Partnership – your gateway to transparent, inclusive, and accountable public budgeting worldwide. 🌍✨ Discover the transformative power of fiscal transparency and embark on a journey toward democratic governance and social justice. Our content is crafted to: 🏛️💚 Advance transparent and participatory budget processes 🌍❤️ Strengthen civil society engagement in fiscal policy 🚪🌟 Promote accountability in government spending and revenue 💭✨ Cultivate informed public participation in budget decisions Whether you're a civil society advocate, policymaker, researcher, or engaged citizen, we provide tools for budget analysis, fiscal advocacy, and democratic participation. Join us as we work toward a world where fiscal systems serve all people equitably—one budget at a time. Subscribe now and make budget transparency a part of your advocacy toolkit. 📊🏛️🌍 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔🚨 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/@IntBudgetPartnership?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured Speakers: Zohra Khan - Senior Policy Advisor, UN-Women (Moderator) Sergio Colina Martin - Director-General for Sustainable Development Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain (Opening Address) Dr. Esmia Kainja - Principal Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Malawi Princess Joan Jummai Idonije - Senior Technical Assistant to the Minister of Women Affairs, Nigeria Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell - CEO, Girls Not Brides Ana Patricia Muñoz - Executive Director, International Budget Partnership Co-organized by: Government of Malawi · Government of Nigeria · Government of Spain · Girls Not Brides · UN-Women · International Budget Partnership (IBP) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BudgetTransparency #FiscalTransparency #OpenBudgets #TransparentBudgets #AccessibleBudgets #OpenFiscalData #GovernmentAccountability #PublicAccountability #BudgetOversight #BudgetMonitoring #BudgetCredibility #ExternalAudits #PublicAudit #SupremeAuditInstitutions #SocialAudits #ParticipatoryBudgeting #BudgetParticipation #BudgetAdvocacy #AdvocateForBudgets #BudgetLiteracy #FiscalLiteracy #CivicEngagement #CivicBudgeting #BudgetEducation #PublicSpending #GovernmentSpending #PublicExpenditure #StateExpenditure #FiscalPolicy #EquitableFiscalPolicy #EconomicJustice #FiscalJustice #TaxEquity #FairTaxation #DebtAccountability #ResponsibleDebt #GenderBudgeting #GenderResponsiveBudgets #InclusiveBudgets #BudgetsForAll #InternationalBudgetPartnership #IBP #IBPGlobal #OpenBudgetSurvey #OBS #OpenGovernmentFinance #OpenGovFinance #SAI #BudgetJustice #PeoplePoweredFinance #BudgetInclusion #RightToInformation #PublicFinanceMatters #DemocratizingFinance #FiscalDemocracy #CivicPower #TransparencyMatters #AuditTheBudget #BudgetForEquity #BudgetChampions #OpenData #RightsBasedBudgeting #FiscalActivism #AccountableSpending #DataForAccountability