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
Response to the UK government’s White Paper on International Development

November 2023

Response: The newly launched White Paper on International Development guides the UK’s approach to the new global realities we face. GADN welcomes the White Paper’s important political prioritisation of gender equality and the rights of women and girls, along with the ambition to strengthen and reform the international system. However, concerns remain about the substance of these commitments and their operationalisation.

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Responses & statementsGADN CoordinatorUK Aid, VAWG, Women's political participation & leadership, Girls' education, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Women's economic justice
Resisting the rollback of women's and girls' rights: Considerations and entry points for action for the UK government

November 2023

Briefing: In response to the UK government’s commitment to combat rollback, this briefing explores some of the ways in which attacks on women’s and girls' rights are being experienced in areas such as women’s economic justice, women’s political and social empowerment and violence against women and girls and makes recommendations for government action.

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Briefings & reportsGADN CoordinatorUK Aid, UN, Women's economic justice, VAWG, Women's political participation & leadership, Girls' education, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)