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IDDC and GADN Joint Submission to the CRPD Committee on the Draft General Comment on Article 6: Women with Disabilities

July 2015

The rights concerning women and girls with disabilities is a central issue deeply connected to IDDC’s and GADN’s priorities and the priorities of the members of IDDC and GADN. We welcome the Committee’s commitment to tackling multiple discrimination on the grounds of gender and disability and its recognition of the complexity of this cross-cutting issue. We also recognise the potential impact of this General Comment in bringing greater clarity regarding multiple discrimination issues more broadly beyond gender and disability. This submission intends to build on the strengths of the Committee’s analysis of gender and disability.

SubmissionsGADN Coordinator24 July 2015UK Aid, Intersectionality

Measuring progress on women’s participation and influence in decision-making in the SDGs: Recommendations to the Inter-agency and Expert Group and UN Member States

Measuring progress on women’s participation and influence in decision-making in the SDGs: Recommendations to the Inter-agency and Expert Group and UN Member States

July 2015

The GADN Women’s Participation and Leadership Working Group has published a paper setting out recommendations on global indicators on women’s participation and leadership. The paper is intended to inform the process for developing a global indicator list for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator24 July 2015UN, WG Women's political participation & leadership, Women's political participation & leadership

Summary of positions on negotiations for the post-2015 framework

July 2015

While some important advances have been made, and must now be protected, the Gender and Development Network (GADN) argues that there are some areas where improvement is still needed. The paper is our response updated in the light of the ‘Final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda’.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator22 July 2015UN

Position on the World Humanitarian Summit

July 2015

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major structural reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The Gender and Development Network (GADN) believes that transformative change in the humanitarian system is impossible unless reforms account for gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV).

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator15 July 2015Humanitarian

Post-2015 Working Group Propose Indicators for SDG Goal 5

July 2015

Members of the Gender and Development Network (GADN) Post-2015 working group propose indicators for the suggested targets under Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the zero draft outcome document of the Open Working Group. These reflect their substantial analysis of the Post 2015 framework which can be found at www.gadnetwork.org.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator15 July 2015UN

GADN Women’s Economic Justice working group’s submission to the World Bank Group’s Gender Strategy

July 2015

The Women's Economic Justice working group has written a submission to the World Bank Gender Strategy on key gender gaps that the World Bank Group should focus on to support countries in implementing these goals.

SubmissionsGADN Coordinator13 July 2015Women's economic justice, WG Women's economic justice, Macroeconomics, care, decent work

Key Messages on Financing for Development from GADN

June 2015

In our briefing paper Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond the Gender and Development Network has outlined how gender equality and women’s rights should be addressed in the Financing for Development Process. In this summary document, we highlight our five key messages in relation to the ongoing negotiation on the Addis Ababa Accord, and make specific language suggestions based on drafts to date.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator22 June 2015UN, Macroeconomics

Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond

Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond

June 2015

Throughout the Post-2015 process, many governments have successfully championed gender equality within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is now vital that sufficient funding is secured and that, crucially, this is of high quality and raised in a way that promotes gender equality and women’s rights. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) provides a timely opportunity. However, although there has been significant visibility of gender equality issues within the FfD3 process, there has been limited recognition that different sources of financing have differing impacts on gender equality or that gender biases within the economy continue to reinforce discrimination against women and girls.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator11 June 2015UN, Macroeconomics, tax, privatisation

Turning Promises into Progress

Gender equality and rights for women and girls - lessons learnt and actions needed. A joint report with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK) and the UK Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Network.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator31 March 2015Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action, UN, care, WG VAWG, WG Women's economic justice, WG Preventing sexual exploitation, abuse & harassment (PSEAH), WG Women's political participation & leadership, WG Girls' education, Girls' education, Women's political participation & leadership, Women's economic justice, Preventing sexual exploitation, VAWG

Untangling Gender Mainstreaming: A Theory of Change based on experience and reflection

March 2015

Explores the concept and practicalities of gender mainstreaming. Sets out the component parts of gender mainstreaming, how these relate to each other, and how they collectively contribute towards the wider goal of gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator9 March 2015INGO programming & gender mainstreaming, WG INGO programming & gender mainstreaming

Summary of positions on negotiations for the post-2015 framework

February 2015

Throughout the discussions around the post-2015 framework some major advances have been made towards the achievement of gender equality, and there are a number of proposals that we believe are essential to protect as we move towards the final deliberations. However, the Gender and Development Network (GADN) remains concerned about various issues that are continuing to undermine the creation of a truly progressive framework strong enough to tackle the deep rooted and persistent gender inequalities that exist.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator2 March 2015UN

Gender and Campaigning Training Pack

November 2014

Insights and practical ideas to understand why and how to integrate gender equality and the rights of women and girls into international development campaigns. Aimed at campaigners and communications, fundraising or policy staff with a significant element of campaigning or advocacy in their role.

GuidesMayeesha Jamil21 November 2014Feminist advocacy

Gender equality and women's rights at the UN General Assembly post-2015 discussion

September 2014

In this paper we reflect first on the overall current state of the post-2015 debate and then comment on the final Outcome Document of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals, suggesting what could be usefully kept or improved.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator12 September 2014UN

UNGA Review Event on the Call to Action on Violence against Women and Girls in Emergencies

September 2014

This briefing discusses how all donors and humanitarian actors participating in the Call to Action can take further steps to translate high level commitments to change on the ground, with the ultimate goal of improving the life, safety, dignity and resilience of women, girls and GBV survivors in current emergencies, including survivors of harmful practices like such as early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator12 September 2014UN, WG VAWG, WG Humanitarian, VAWG, Humanitarian

Unpaid Care: A priority for the post-2015 development goals and beyond

July 2014

This briefing provides evidence of the many benefits of tackling women’s disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, and suggests practical proposals for implementation and indicators for measuring progress. While we suggest that the current wording of the proposed target could be improved, the recognition of unpaid care in this global development agenda would in itself represent an important advance, and therefore our main concern is to preserve its inclusion.

Briefings & reportsMayeesha Jamil11 July 2014UN, care

VAWG: Your Questions, Our Answers

June 2014

The GADN Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) working group have launched the publication 'Harmful Traditional Practices, Your Questions: Our Answers', providing an overview of harmful traditional practices, explaining their causes and consequences and bringing together examples of successful approaches to addressing them.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator1 June 2014VAWG, WG VAWG

The EU, gender and the post-2015 framework

March 2014

In this briefing, we look first at the role of the EU in implementing the MDGs, then at the EU’s own policy towards gender equality and finally at its approach thus far towards the post-2015 framework. Some specific recommendations for the way forward are then proposed.

BlogpostsGADN Coordinator14 March 2014UN

Girl's Education working group post-2015 position paper

February 2014

The education goal within the post-2015 framework must take this into account; girls and women must no longer be left behind. Further, education and the inclusion of girls and women must not be seen in isolation, being intrinsically linked to other goals, such as the elimination of early marriage, sanitation infrastructure, stopping violence against women and goals and sexual and reproductive health.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator16 February 2014UN, Girls' education, WG Girls' education

VAWG factsheets

March 2013

The VAWG working group prepared factsheets on key issues ahead of CSW57 in 2013.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator16 March 2013VAWG, WG VAWG, UN

Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Post-2015 Framework

Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Post-2015 Framework

January 2013

This report argues that to achieve real and sustainable change, the post-2015 framework must tackle the underlying causes of gender inequality and promote women’s empowerment. The most effective way to achieve gender equality is through a ‘twin track’ approach, combining a standalone goal with mainstreaming throughout the framework. Targets across the framework must be transformative so that they reflect a lasting change in the power and choices women have over their own lives and tackle the root causes of inequality.

Briefings & reportsGADN Coordinator11 January 2013UN