Imagining Feminist Futures After COVID-19 Workshop International Consortium on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights November 2020 Organizations Local community shutting down, groups left without forced to merge, Innovation international/larger Blue Team or forced to divert org support or also halted from SRHR forced to shut down Less access to SRH Choose a trend from your section and services Unintended consequence - move that sticky to the middle of the fewer increase in exclusive SRHR other health Increased Wheel. services; issues need for widespread integrated into redundancies other services advocacy Disadvantageous legal changes Next, consider possible post- COVID embedding long- term negative Decreased impacts of that trend over the next ten impacts rights years, from now to 2030. Start with first Siloisation Emboldened level impacts and work your way out of SRH Decreased opposition from the center. You can add more funding, SRHR not considered Inappropriate stickies if needed. messaging/ essential links between climate and Oversaturation of SRHR specific services; SRHR Consider what might happen next year? harmful Increased neglected/not development action prioritized What happens after that, in 3-5 years? could ensue SRHR taken on What might it look like by 2030? considered CC essential - Increased SDG 3 and increased funding focus on 5 are met climate Remember, some impacts are positive, ahead of change Sustained or Support increased time Increased Effective response some negative. There can be multiple support for coverage / from SRHR to increased focus SRHR within access to SRH sources impacts from each level, and they do not on CC - integrates CC focus services itself within CC have to exist in the same possible future. globally. dry up focus Think about each thread of connected Increase Health impacts as possibilities. What happens if access to workforce decision Pandemic diverted away makers planning and from SRH the initial impact has an opposite effect? response What action might be necessary to focus counter or mitigate a negative impact at the next level? "Picking winners" in SRH - some services prioritized, others neglected If you need inspiration, think about Policy progression STEEP + V: What are the... work/advocacy halted Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Values ...implications of this trend? Green Team Choose a trend from your section and move that sticky to the middle of the Increase Wheel. Higher rate of vulnerability unwanted of other pregnancy, hardship STIs, maternal Next, consider possible post- COVID deaths etc. impacts of that trend over the next ten years, from now to 2030. Start with first Better access to SRH Increase in level impacts and work your way out services (using tech to Impact on social communicate) equity and inequalitie from the center. You can add more access to SRH and social Govt prioritise Greater stickies if needed. services to strengthen connectedness social due to social protection platforms and Consider what might happen next year? networks Innovation What happens after that, in 3-5 years? (Technology) What might it look like by 2030? Poverty in financial Remember, some impacts are positive, hardship some negative. There can be multiple Rolling impacts from each level, and they do not Systemic have to exist in the same possible future. Disruption Think about each thread of connected impacts as possibilities. What happens if Repressed Girls experience political the initial impact has an opposite effect? more GBV, child marriage and institutions What action might be necessary to school drop out counter or mitigate a negative impact at Cross- the next level? generation gender inequality If you need inspiration, think about STEEP + V: What are the... Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Values ...implications of this trend? PINK TEAM Choose a trend from your section and move that sticky to the middle of the Wastes time of Rights- based SRHR advocates to manage this, Wheel. language co- but doesn't get opted, mainstream historical support Next, consider possible post- COVID rights reversed impacts of that trend over the next ten years, from now to 2030. Start with first Division Cohesive bloc of anti- rights level impacts and work your way out stops states emerges, progress Geneva wields collective from the center. You can add more Consensis as power alternative to stickies if needed. the UN ? Rise of the Consider what might happen next year? TERFs - What happens after that, in 3-5 years? division within What might it look like by 2030? Mens rights/"Not Remember, some impacts are positive, all men" Backlash some negative. There can be multiple against impacts from each level, and they do not [wToRmENenD's] have to exist in the same possible future. rights Think about each thread of connected impacts as possibilities. What happens if Backlash against the initial impact has an opposite effect? backlash - more women involved What action might be necessary to in rights movement counter or mitigate a negative impact at Increased openness to women- only the next level? political parties/other representation If you need inspiration, think about STEEP + V: What are the... Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Values ...implications of this trend? Yellow Team Choose a trend from your section and move that sticky to the middle of the Wheel. Next, consider possible post- COVID impacts of that trend over the next ten years, from now to 2030. Start with first More rigorous risk level impacts and work your way out management Changes in by donors? from the center. You can add more the way we stickies if needed. measure progress More local power over Recognition of Consider what might happen next year? resources importance of strong Decreased What happens after that, in 3-5 years? Government remittances lead to unmet What might it look like by 2030? SRHR needs Reduced Less expatriate global Remember, some impacts are positive, presence - more empowered local mobility some negative. There can be multiple representation / leadership impacts from each level, and they do not SRHR Reconsidered have to exist in the same possible future. Think about each thread of connected More creative uses of Health impacts as possibilities. What happens if funding - cost systems effectiveness Localisation strengthening the initial impact has an opposite effect? Remote service given What action might be necessary to provision - impetus counter or mitigate a negative impact at tele- health More the next level? people can access More local More services activism investment in on SRHR local If you need inspiration, think about leadership of Use of technology Risk that SRHR STEEP + V: What are the... to strengthen mainstreaming access to services leads to dilution - new supply lines Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, Values Weak ...implications of this trend? governance - may lose gains made Were there any surprising outcomes that Did any threads on your Futures Wheel surface In that thread, what changed by 2030? What change was necessary to lead to a more What feminist principles could help Are there any new feminist principles that surfaced in your Futures Wheel? a path to a more feminist future? feminist future? underpin a more equitable + just future? may emerge in this future? Any that may grow less important? Yes. Some positive Yes, some paths led to SRHR considered Feminist outcomes for SRHR greater SDGs 3 & 5 essential in the context suprising (especially funds attention/funding for of reduced funding economics. going to climate change) SRHR. acheived. (pandemic/climate) Respect for all. More priority for Poverty reduction Doing development Human rights, strengthening social and more equitable differently (empower low No middle income countries, intersectionality protection systems access to services locally led movements, orgs) embraced Backlash against the Attitudinal change, Feminist Potentially but backlash - led to particularly among economics, Not really! not likely (sorry!) greater coalition building, critical mass men power shift Yes all threads - - Localisation needs to be Technology is not - Changes from 2020 became well managed for womens localisation, remote permanent and were built upon inherently equitable Disruption is inclusion and ownership No support, good - Restrictions to global mobility (digital / remote - Remote access led to wider under COVID was a catalyst for the new norm? governance access to SRHR services change services) Imagine yourself in the year 2030. A Blue Team Green Team radical shift has taken place and a more equitable, feminist future has been SRHR is considered essential in the context of reduced realized. funding/competing agendas. There is increased access to Change structural power equitable SRHR globally, and thus SDGs 3 and 5 have been met. SRHR sector follows the principle of health for all (UHC) and such as IMF, corporates, What does this mean? What does it look ensures respect/focus on broader social support and health care. like with regards to your trend and more The value of sustained public funding in social services/health international development care is embedded in society and respected by governments, broadly? How is it radically different guided by the feminist economics and respect for all principles. assistance to achieve gender, from today? SRHR actors maintain the pursuit of advocacy regarding importance & value of sustained public funding for and right to economic and climate justice equitable health care. Create a short description or "snapshot". Your snapshot could reflect new beliefs, norms, practices, policies, or models. Pink Team Yellow Team Where does your organization or network’s work, or your own activism, There's been a backlash to the backlash and people sit within this new system? Are we still here? Consortium membership different - led by local rise up for women's rights. Shifts are taking place in SRHR actors (& CSOs) communicating directly to government? the way we think about unpaid labour, stemming from More funding for SRHR. Globalisation dead or stronger? Localism, a shift in societal attitudes towards men's role.