About the event
Feminist foreign policy (FFP) provides an exciting framework to advance implementation of the Platform for Action. FFP is a growing field, with 16 governments who have at some point committed to an explicitly feminist approach across foreign affairs, trade and development policies. In the Asia and Pacific regions, the Government of Mongolia has expressed interest in incorporating FFP into its approach and civil society groups are furthering these discussions, with particular focus on ensuring the concepts are contextualized to this region. This side event will share lessons from global dialogues and regional processes in order to further discussions on a regionally contextualized feminist foreign policy approach for Asia and the Pacific region. This session is co-organized by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), CREA, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, The Asia Foundation and Gender and Development for Cambodia. Read the concept note here.
Pauline Tweedy, Chief Project Management Officer, The Asia Foundation
Lopa Banerjee, Director, Civil Society Division, UN Women
Durapada Sapkota, Minister Counsellor (Political), Embassy of Nepal, New Delhi
María Cristina Perceval, Senior Fellow at the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative and President of Feminists Without Borders, Argentina; former Senator, UN Representative, and Special Representative for Feminist Foreign Policy of Argentina
Chandy Eng, Executive Director, Gender and Development Cambodia
Nalini Singh, Executive Director, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement
Alice Ridge, Senior Research, Policy and Advocacy Advisor, International Women’s Development Agency
