WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. WIDE’s work is grounded on women’s rights as the basis for the development of a more just and democratic world order.

WIDE’s work revolves around three pillars:

• Capacity building: WIDE’s Economic Literacy project enables members and partners to participate in debates on the global economy by enhancing their understanding of economic and trade issues as well as the conceptual links between gender and trade.  WIDE enables members and partners to articulate alternatives to the negative impacts of globalisation, and makes visible feminist alternatives.
Through the dissemination of our research and analysis, WIDE promotes gender equality and social justice.

• Networking: WIDE promotes dialogue and cooperation among women worldwide through conferences, seminars and consultations, as well as active participation in Social Fora at national, European and international levels. Intensive networking takes place between WIDE members. WIDE also works in close collaboration with other network structures, like the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), where WIDE has become the focal point for economy literacy in Europe, the European Trade Network (ETN), the Seattle to Brussels network, etc.

• Awareness raising, lobbying and advocacy: WIDE raises awareness of the complexities of political, economic and social dynamics and analyses the impact of European and international policies, such as those of the European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), on women’s lives and on gender relations. WIDE lobbies the EU and international institutions, such as the WTO and the UN to adopt gender sensitive policies, and also monitors the implementation of women’s rights instruments, e.g. the Beijing Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

WIDE publications can be found on our website at http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Structure/publ.htm

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