This October, Madrid will host a gathering of feminist leaders, activists, and changemakers from across the globe. The Financing for Feminist Futures (F4FF) Conference takes place 8-10 October, 2025 at La Casa Encendida, convened by the Walking the Talk Consortium (Hivos, Equipop, Restless Development, ODI Europe and DSW) in collaboration with La Coordinadora, Spain.

Feminist movements and civil society organisations remain vital drivers of change but they continue to operate with dwindling resources. Major cuts to aid budgets, ODA, and an ever-expanding anti-rights movement has put nearly half of all global women’s rights organisations at risk of closure within six months.

With the feminist funding landscape under severe strain, the F4FF Conference asks a crucial question: How do we resource feminist movements for the future?

Over two and a half days at the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference, around 250 participants from the majority world, philanthropy, government, women’s funds, UN agencies, and beyond will come together to:

  • Protect existing financing for gender equality in an era of shrinking official development assistance.
  • Strategise across sectors on resourcing feminist responses to intersecting crises – conflict, climate change, humanitarian emergencies, and health.
  • Explore innovative approaches like gender lens investing, blended finance, national philanthropy, and social enterprises.
  • Build on recent global conversations, from the Compromiso de Sevilla and Financing for Development Conference (FFD4), to ongoing feminist foreign policy debates.
  • Mobilise new narratives and advocacy tools, including the 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality.

The conference design reflects feminist values: collaborative, creative, and rooted in solidarity. It will feature intimate strategy sessions, interactive workshops, feminist art, collective meals and multiple spaces for attendees to practice joy, alongside resistance.

The 12 Calls to Action: Unlocking Resources for Feminist Futures

The 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality will be a key focus of the conference and emerged from a collaborative process led by the Walking the Talk consortium, with input from diverse feminist actors worldwide. Together, they outline a shared agenda to push for long-term, flexible, and accessible funding to sustain feminist organising, particularly in the Global South and East.

Read the full article about the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference at Alliance Magazine.