Evidence that connects territories. Alliances that transform the future.
The Black Women’s Economic Forum connects knowledge, policy advocacy, and cooperation to strengthen an Afro-Latin American and Caribbean agenda for economic justice.
November 24th・Mexico City
An agenda that drives transformation
The Black Women’s Economic Forum brings together leaders, activists, researchers, governments, philanthropic entities, international organizations, and the private sector to develop responses to racial and gender-based economic inequalities. It serves as a space for discussion and the sharing of evidence, fostering alliances to transform the reality of Black women and, through them, to transform society as a whole.
Our commitment
Turning evidence into action
Disseminate evidence on economic, racial, and gender inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean to inform the development of public policies and strategic decision-making.
Promote regional impact
Build alliances that bring about intentional change in Latin America and the Caribbean, while strengthening the leadership of Black women and regional networks.
Build strategic alliances
Bringing together governments, philanthropy, academia, civil society, and the private sector to identify opportunities for regional cooperation, collaborative knowledge production, and joint advocacy.
The First Economic Forum for Black Women in Brazil
In May 2026, Agbara hosted the inaugural edition of the Black Women’s Economic Forum in Brazil, which served as the public launch for the Racial Economic Justice Index (REJI). The gathering brought together researchers, civil society organizations, philanthropic entities, and other key stakeholders to analyze evidence regarding economic inequalities intersecting race and gender, and to discuss ways to translate data into advocacy and action.
How has racial economic justice played out in Brazil?
The research that led to the creation of the Racial Economic Justice Index (REJI), developed by the Black Women’s Research and Memory Center at the Agbara Fund, reveals that, over the last few decades in Brazil, there has been progress across various social dimensions, such as access to education, income redistribution policies, and the strengthening of models aimed at promoting equity. However, these advances have not been sufficient to alter structural inequalities, in which some social groups remain more advantaged than others.
Giovanni Harvey
Executive Director at Fundo Baobá
The REJI is extremely important because we need data: there can be no public policy, no program, and no project without data. The major contribution that the REJI provides is high-quality, up-to-date data, which allows us to recognize the persistence of this landscape of inequality.
Selma Moreira
Executive Director at Vital Strategies Brasil
Being part of this event (Black Women’s Economic Forum) and discussing all the data presented by REJI prompts us to reflect on the importance of black women taking a leading role in the production of data and information, work that reveals to society as a whole the profound level of historical inequality to which we continue to be subjected.
Kênia Cardoso
Economist
The Black Women’s Economic Forum serves not only to translate, based on data, the reflections of the contradictions within our society, but also to provide responses sophisticated enough to help guide our path forward from this point on.
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When and where will the second edition of the Forum take place?
November 24, 2026, 10 AM
Auditório Roma 2
Sinaloa 114, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México, CDMX
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