The starting point:

"The women's movement in the South made a such a progress with big successes; yet the poverty of women is still increasing." (Group Consensus)

"Theory, institutions, practices, policy need a revision, reconstruction, remodelling in the context of or in response to the terrible condition of those who are hungry - who lack the fundamentals." (Devaki Jain)

Entry points:

Women's work and macroeconomics: How to make women's contribution to the economies visible, how to re-shift the risk from the poor women's shoulders, how to change macroeconomic decisions in favour for women's well-being and wealth ...

Women and the privatisation of basic needs: Worldwide, especially poor women are suffering of water scarcity. Access to clean water is a human right. Yet, water privatisation in less developed countries is spreading with disastrous effects on the life of women. We see it as a crime against humanity.

Solutions: Read more ...
» The Initivative

Third Meeting of the Group in Casablanca, 24-26 October 2008
» Read about the Challenge: Milestones on the Road to Casablanca III
A note prepared by Devaki jain and Shubha Chacko, 10 September 2008

Earlier Reports
» Discussions about the Casablanca Dream at Istanbul, July 2007
Report about the meeting by Fatma Abullahi

» Report about the Istanbul Conference: "8th International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics", July 2007
Report by Fatma Abdullahi

The » Progress Report by Shubha Chacko gives an overview what happened since Casablanca - from January, 15 till July 15, 2007.

Macroeconomics and how to make women's work visible
Paper for an international Seminar at Goa, India, May 2007
"Non-marketed equals non-economic," states Solita Collas-Monsod, a Filipino professor of economics and former minister. "It is undisputed that the contribution of women to the economy, mostly in the form of unpaid labor, is well nigh invisible today, despite four World Conferences of Women starting in 1975, when the need to measure and value unpaid work was recognized." Read more:
» Integrating Unpaid Work Into Macroeconomics

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