📷 GADN Secretariat and Chair of the Board at GADN Members’ Meeting on Building Effective Anti-racist and Decolonial Practices (September 2022) © Angela Gokani Brasier
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June 2026
Briefing: Private finance is increasingly presented as the answer to aid cuts, despite its unproven impact on equality and social justice. This briefing explores the concepts, available evidence, and potential costs of this approach. It concludes with recommended next steps, starting with a far more nuanced, evidence-based approach.
Read MoreMay 2026
Response: GADN welcomes the launch of the UK International Strategic Framework on Women and Girls, which represents an important commitment to prioritise and promote women’s and girls’ rights across every area of FCDO’s work. We look forward to supporting the department in further developing and implementing ambitious deliverables.
Read MoreApril 2026
Letter: The upcoming Global Partnerships Conference is a key opportunity for the UK government to operationalise its new cross-departmental women and girls priority and commitment to an ambitious gender mainstreaming approach. In this open letter, GADN and members suggest some key examples for how this can be done meaningfully and call for the visibility of gender mainstreaming across the conference to be increased.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on 404 Error: Artificial Intelligence, Revolution for Whom? platformed Nandini Chami, Deputy Director and Fellow – Research and Policy Engagement with IT for Change to share her expertise in this field. Guided by Nandini, GADN members considered the exponential and revolutionary growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) use across systems, cultures and global value chains, exploring its multifaceted impacts on gender justice and where possibilities for feminist intervention might lie.
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Briefing: This briefing provides an overview of the accelerating attacks on gender equality and the rights of women and girls in all their diversity, and explores who is behind this rollback. It suggests recommendations for urgent UK government action across its international influencing to protect gender equality and advance the rights of women and girls internationally.
Read MoreJanuary 2026
GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on Where can transformative decolonial action take root in a moment of backlash? brought together experts in this field to lead a collective conversation with members on decolonial practice and process within the sector. With thanks to Dr Lata Narayanaswamy, Associate Professor in the Politics of Global Development at the University of Leeds; and Priya Lukka, Economist and PhD Researcher specialising in repair-based approaches, for guiding the group conversation.
Read MoreNovember 2025
Response: GADN’s response to the IDC’s inquiry into the future of the UK’s international aid and development assistance work sets out the importance of focusing on gender equality and the rights of women and girls in all their diversity, cautions against the unregulated use of private finance and outlines stepping stones for the UK to move towards equitable partnerships.
Read MoreNovember 2025
GADN Members’ Meeting: This meeting continued and broadened the discussion started at our June Members’ Meeting, ‘Feminist Solidarity in a Time of Aid Cuts and Backlash: Reflecting, Resisting, Reimagining’. In this meeting, speakers provided a wider analysis of the changing landscape in which we are doing our work, looking particularly at the financial context in relation to bilateral aid, funds and foundations and private finance, as well as the rollback on rights.
Read MoreOctober 2025
Our 2024-25 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
Read MoreSeptember 2025
Briefing: Following the UK government’s proposal to mainstream gender equality across FCDO as a response to aid cuts announced in early 2025, this paper details suggestions on how to make this as effective as possible. Stressing that the new approach must retain standalone initiatives alongside transformative gender equality objectives across the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, we also include specific policy recommendations to support its implementation.
Read MoreAugust 2025
Briefing: This briefing responds to the UK International Development Minister’s intention to mainstream gender throughout the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) following cuts to the aid budget earlier this year. Reflecting on lessons learned from decades of efforts to gender mainstream, we outline a set of core building blocks for success and stress that protecting standalone gender programming is essential for effective mainstreaming.
Read MoreJune 2025
Response: The 2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit concluded with a set of statements covering limited and narrow subjects in the absence of a Leaders’ Communiqué. These statements signal a significant regression from previous years’ outputs, with only superficial reference to women and girls scattered across the texts.
Read MoreJune 2025
GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on Feminist Solidarity in a Time of Aid Cuts and Backlash: Reflecting, Resisting, Reimagining brought together a panel of speakers to reflect on the current challenging context that our sector is facing, from cuts to US AID and UK ODA to the escalating attacks on women and girls’ rights. The panel was chaired by Piyumi Samaraweera and we heard interventions from Dorothy Sang of Care International UK, Alex Farley of Bond and feminist activist, writer and development consultant Esua Jane Goldsmith.
Read MoreMay 2025
Response: GADN responds to Baroness Chapman’s remarks made at the IDC on 13 May 2025, suggesting that gender equality spend is one of the areas most at risk in the cuts to ODA announced earlier this year. With 11 June 2025 being a key decision point for the future of UK aid spend, GADN calls on the Foreign Secretary to protect gender equality spending.
Read MoreMarch 2025
Letter: Prime Minister Starmer has announced substantial cuts in UK aid. GADN and members call for a reversal of the decision and urge Foreign Secretary Lammy to prioritise gender equality within diminished aid budgets while championing the rights of women and girls on the international stage.
Read MoreFebruary 2025
GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting, titled ‘Reflecting on 30 Years Since Beijing: Preparing for CSW69’ convened speakers representing women’s rights organisations from the UK and beyond as well as UN Women to discuss the upcoming CSW, sharing priorities and reflections with the Beijing Platform for Action in mind. The panel was chaired by Yamina Ouldali and speakers included Brianna Howell and Loui Williams of UN Women, Nicole Maloba of FEMNET, Heather Knight of Plan International UK and Shiphrah Belonguel of Fòs Feminista.
Read MoreDecember 2024
Briefing: Targeting the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), this briefing explores recommendations for more gender-responsive humanitarian engagement, covering suggestions around leadership and approaches, funding modalities as well as civil society partnerships and engagement.
Read MoreOctober 2024
GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on Feminist and Decolonial Ways of Working provided a space to look at some of the established and emerging practices and discuss experiences and insights by hearing from a range of different speakers, and exchanging with other GADN members. A hybrid panel discussion was moderated by Leila Billing, and we heard from Dr Ramatu Bangura, Pranita Choudhry, and Arundhati Sridhar.
Read MoreAugust 2024
Statement: GADN Board and staff stand in solidarity with anti-racism activists and movements as part of our own ongoing commitments towards anti-racism work.
Read MoreJuly 2024
Our 2023-24 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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