On January 28-30, 2015, members of DAWN attended the First Drafting Session of the document for the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in the United Nations Headquarters. The importance of gender equality and women's empowerment was repeatedly mentioned by different governments and members of the civil society organizations. Our direct participation in the session allowed us to identify new and old conflict areas between different blocks of countries, and to assess the level of ambition of the process, in a year characterized by the convergence of intergovernmental negotiations in multiple fronts.
The objective of this article is to review the main elements of the FfD process in order to set current debates in a context, identify the main conflict areas between the different blocks of countries, and introduce some of the recommendations we at DAWN have been promoting with the purpose of reorienting global economic governance and development patterns towards economic, ecological, and gender justice.