Submission to the International Development Committee on Coronavirus

October 2020

The International Development Committee put out a second call for evidence about the secondary impacts of the coronavirus in developing countries.

GADN, alongside Nawi-Macroeconomics Collective, made the following submission examining the impacts of the looming global debt crisis on developing countries’ abilities to fulfil women’s human rights.

May 2020

The International Development Committee put out a call for evidence in order to consider the longer-term impacts of the virus on developing countries. GADN has made two submissions covering the following:

Submission from GADN’s Working Groups

This paper focuses on the central role of women and women’s rights organisations as frontline responders during this pandemic, and calls for the urgent need to resource and support this critical work.

Submission in conjunction with Akina Mama Wa Afrika and FEMNET

This paper, developed as part of GADN’s REFRAME project, examines some of the key macroeconomic challenges the pandemic has exposed and sets out the UK Government’s key role in addressing them.