Co-ordinator Gita Sen

DAWN at AWID
DAWN representatives spoke on panels and in workshops at the AWID 9th Intrnational Forum on women's Rights and Development on Reinventing Globalisation, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, 3-6 October 2002. DAWN Regional Coordinator for Anglophone Africa, Bene Madunagu, spoke in the opening plenary session on Current Neo-liberal Development: Feminist Alternatives.
Financing for Development
DAWN is one of the few women's organisations that has followed the FfD process from the outset. Its involvement stems mainly from its concern over the global trend towards privatisation of social goods, and from an interest in seeing the Currency Transaction Tax or Tobin Tax introduced to mobilise its income for development. Participation in the FfD Prepcom is also reported in DAWN Informs and Sonia Correa has reported on the REPEM/DAWN and UNIFEM supported Latin American workshop/seminar on FfD: New Tendencies, New Exclusions and New Strategies from Women's Perspectives in the Region, which gave rise to the Cartagena Feminist Initiative to take forward the Latin American women's perspective.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 
The second World Social Forum will be held in Porto Alegre 31 January - 5 February 2002, and DAWN is on the international organising committee. DAWN first joined with the Marcosur, Southern Feminist Initiative, to work on the agenda of the first World Social Forum a new annual event for the promotion of human rights, social justice and sustainable development held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25-30 January 2001. It is timed to take place as the World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, meets. DAWN representatives attended the Forum and DAWN Latin America joined the initiative with the Southern Community to disseminate information about the political importance of participating in this space for construction of a planetary citizenship.

The External Gender Consultative Group of the World Bank
DAWN is involved in the EGCG initiative through Gita Sen, Research Coordinator for Political Economy of Globalisation, who chaired the EGCG until 2001. In 1999, the EGCG worked to make the production of a Policy Research Report (PRR) on Gender and Development by the Bank more open and genuinely participatory through a process of broad consultation with and feedback from and to feminist scholars and activists. Intended to break the mainstream view within the World Bank that 'growth is good for gender equality', it is the subject of vigorous debate. 

SAPRIN
DAWN has been involved in the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative Network through Peggy Antrobus, who represented DAWN on the SAPRI Steering Committee from 1998 to 2000. DAWN's efforts within SAPRI were directed at engendering the review process, with resulting greater gender sensitivity now evident in SAPRI reports. 

Other Global Work
DAWN's globalisation work has recently also entailed co-organising/co-sponsoring and/or participating in global conferences or events organised by civil society organisations and social movements working to achieve fundamental change in the global economic order. These events included: a global conference on Economic Sovereignty in a Globalised World organised by Focus on the Global South, SAPRI and DAWN, held in Bangkok in February 1999; a global conference on Market Dictatorship? Another World is Possible organised by ATTAC (Association pour une Taxation des Transactions Financieres pour l'Aide aux Citoyens) in Paris in June 1999; the civil society events held during the World Trade Organisation's Third Ministerial in Seattle in December 1999; and the UNCTAD X NGO Forum in Bangkok in February 2000.

Gender and Trade

WTO UPDATE: Broken faith on Doha agreement and TRIPS threat to medicines.(December 2002)

Development Studies or Development Economics: moving forward from TINA: Note for UNRISD conference on "The need to rethink development economics", Cape Town, September 7-8, 2001 by Gita Sen, IIM Bangalore & DAWN in which she shifts focus from development economics (more narrowly understood) to development studies, because one of the weaknesses of development economics arises precisely from its inability to integrate the richer understanding based on development studies more broadly.