On September 22nd and 23rd, 2022, the 1st Forum of Ibero-American Female Mayors and Elected Leaders" took place Mexico City. The forum is convened by the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Government of Mexico City, the Mayor's Office of Bogotá and the Municipality of Montevideo; and it aims to be sustained over time and it is open to all female mayors and elected leaders from the Iberoamerican region.
This edition gathered over 200 local female representatives amongst whom there were the president of the Barcelona Provincial Council and mayor of Hospitalet de Llobregat, Núria Marín, the deputy attached to the Presidency and delegate for International Relations and mayor of Esplugues de Llobregat, Pilar Díaz, the mayor of Sabadell, Marta Ferrés, and the governor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum
This forum is born with the objective of reinforcing and multiplying the presence and impact of women in local public leadership position in order to put an end to the agendas of exclusion and privileges and build a new way of doing inclusive politics. Additionally, the forum is a space for confronting current systemic crisis with a new multidimensional, universal and interdependent approach to development in accordance with the new global agendas.
Furthermore, the event is conceived as an alliance between different Iberoamerican local governments, led by women, seeking to generate thinking, exchange, training and advocacy spaces to improve feminist leadership. And it is an opportunity for shaping a new municipalism capable of building local policies with in the Iberomerican space, taking into account a rights-based approach that allows progress towards a new model of inclusive and sustainable development.
The first edition of the forum was articulated around two days of work. One more technical and the other more political. And it tackled four priority areas: a) gender mainstreaming in all public policies, b) feminist and care economy, c) policies to prevent and eradicate gender-based violence and d) promotion of female participation at political level.