Resources and Rights under attack: Obstacles and Strategies
Resources and Rights under attack: Obstacles and Strategies

November 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. The excellent panel was composed of ODI’s Ayesha Khan, Prospera’s Laila Alodaat, and Third World Network’s Bhumika Muchhala.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, UK Aid
Achieving transformative change on gender equality through a new approach to mainstreaming: Proposals from GADN members

September 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.

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Briefings & reportsGADN CoordinatorINGO programming & gender mainstreaming, UK Aid
Gender Mainstreaming - what is it and what have we learnt?

August 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.

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Briefings & reportsGADN CoordinatorINGO programming & gender mainstreaming, UK Aid
Feminist Solidarity in a Time of Aid Cuts and Backlash: Reflecting, Resisting, Reimagining
Feminist Solidarity in a Time of Aid Cuts and Backlash: Reflecting, Resisting, Reimagining

June 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.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, UK Aid
GADN response to Minister Chapman’s IDC statement on aid cuts and gender equality

May 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.

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Responses & statementsGADN CoordinatorUK Aid
Reflecting on 30 Years Since Beijing: Preparing for CSW69
Reflecting on 30 Years Since Beijing: Preparing for CSW69

February 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.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, CSW, Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action, UK Aid
Feminist and Decolonial Ways of Working
Feminist and Decolonial Ways of Working

October 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.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, Anti-racism & decolonisation
Palestine: Feminist, anti-racist and decolonial perspectives

May 2024

GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Members' Meeting on feminist, anti-racist and decolonial perspectives on Palestine provided an educational space for GADN members to engage with these issues through the perspectives and analyses of anti-Zionist feminist speakers of Palestinian and Jewish descent. The virtual panel was moderated by Awino Okech, with speakers Nada Elia and Walaa Alqaisiya.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, Anti-racism & decolonisation
From decolonisation to locally-led development: repoliticising the agenda

February 2024

GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Members’ Meeting provided an opportunity to explore what locally-led development and decolonisation mean in practice with speakers Dr. Kamna Patel and Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy. We examined why locally-led development is gaining traction politically and discussed why decolonial approaches are still needed in the international development sector.

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Meetings events webinarsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, Anti-racism & decolonisation
Achieving gender equality and women’s rights through public services and social protection

December 2023

Briefing: This briefing argues that publicly funded and managed public services and social protection are central to achieving gender equality and women’s rights. It underscores that publicly financed services are more cost-effective, sustainable and equitable despite the growing privatisation trend. It concludes with recommendations from Southern groups for increasing fiscal space.

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Briefings & reportsGADN CoordinatorMacroeconomics, tax, debt, care, trade, privatisation, decent work
Global Feminist Cooperation Targeting the G7: Thoughts & Recommendations

December 2023

Learning paper: This learning paper collates lessons learned and reflections from GADN’s G7 engagement in advocating for the adoption of feminist alternatives in 2022 and 2023. It suggests further thoughts and recommendations for improving feminist cooperation within Women 7 (W7) across issues such as timeframes; advocacy; feminist representation and movement building.

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Briefings & reportsGADN CoordinatorFeminist advocacy, G7, UK Aid