Influencing the Finance for Development process during COVID-19

To ensure that women and girls are not left behind in the fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, influencing the Financing for the Development process is a key priority for UN Women. In short, UN Women is working towards bringing gender equality and the financing for development agendas together. With the roll-out of global, national, and regional socio-economic-packages to mitigate impacts of the pandemic, it is vital that a gender lens is applied to these to ensure women are at the centre in all efforts to build back better.International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have a strong role to play in our collective efforts to build back in the short, medium and longer-term. Designing recovery programmes requires attention to the gender dimension and the use of gender-disaggregated data to ensure sustainable impact. By convening a series of high-level virtual ministerial roundtables with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), UN Women is working to highlight best practices, share experiences, and strengthen the collaboration with and between IFIs and UN entities as well as Member States to amplify the multilateral system response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, roundtables have taken place with the World Bank Group and the IFC in April 2020, with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in July 2020 and with Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2020. This video, highlighting UN Women's ministerial roundtables with MDBs, features quotes from: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Executive Director, UN WomenMahmoud Mohieldin - UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Agenda for Sustainable DevelopmentNigel Clarke - Minister of Finance and the Public Service, JamaicaSri Mulyani Indrawati - Minister of Finance, IndonesiaHans Peter Lankes - VP Economics & Private Sector Development, IFCLee Jung-ok - Minister of Gender Equality and Family, Republic of KoreaSmriti Zubin Irani - Minister of Women and Child Development, IndiaMasatsugu Asakawa - President, Asian Development Bank