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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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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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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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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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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Reparations as a pathway to decolonisation

May 2023

Briefing: This briefing explores ‘reparations approaches’ and their potential contribution towards ensuring that decolonisation is a transformative response where former colonisers acknowledge, remedy and redress the devastating legacies of European colonialism and slavery. It examines what they are, why they are owed, and what international development organisations should do.

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Response to the FCDO’s International Women and Girls Strategy

March 2023

Response: GADN welcomes the release of the FCDO’s new International Women and Girls Strategy, particularly its commitment to combatting rollback, and resourcing women's rights organisations and movements. But concerns remain over how the Strategy will be resourced and implemented, as well as its limited framing around the '3Es' and how it will be mainstreamed across government.

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Response to the FCDO’s reply to the IDC’s report on Racism in the aid sector

January 2023

Response: GADN is pleased to see the FCDO’s response to the IDC’s report on Racism in the aid sector and welcomes the FCDO’s ongoing and intended measures to address some of the concerns raised in the report. However, it is clear that more work is required to fully comprehend and sufficiently respond to the scale of the problems identified within the IDC’s findings.

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Interrogating the role of Northern international development organisations in combatting global injustices

December 2022

Members’ Meeting: In this meeting, GADN, in conversation with Priyanthi Fernando and Dinah Musindarwezo, shares reflections from a recent learning paper to interrogate the roles of organisations that benefit from ‘Global North power and privilege’ in combatting global injustices.

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What is the role of Northern organisations in global justice advocacy?

December 2022

Learning paper: Organisations that benefit from ‘Global North power and privilege’ must reassess their roles. In conversation with advocates globally, this paper explores the ways traditional redistribution of funds and other resources perpetuates colonialism and proposes changes. Critically, it spotlights the duty of such organisations to challenge Northern governments that perpetuate global injustices.

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Response to the 2022 G7 Leaders' Communique

June 2022

Response: The G7 Leaders’ Summit signposts language and initiatives that shape future international negotiations. This year’s Communique includes language on gender-equal global recovery, the importance of care, structural barriers to equality faced by women in all their diversity, and even mentioned feminist foreign policies. But it falls short in implementation, failing to support new measures on vaccine equity, debt cancellation or progressive global taxation.

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