📷 GADN Secretariat and Chair of the Board at GADN Members’ Meeting on Building Effective Anti-racist and Decolonial Practices (September 2022) © Angela Gokani Brasier
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April 2026
Letter: The upcoming Global Partnerships Conference is a key opportunity for the UK government to operationalise its new cross-departmental women and girls priority and commitment to an ambitious gender mainstreaming approach. In this open letter, GADN and members suggest some key examples for how this can be done meaningfully and call for the visibility of gender mainstreaming across the conference to be increased.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on 404 Error: Artificial Intelligence, Revolution for Whom? platformed Nandini Chami, Deputy Director and Fellow – Research and Policy Engagement with IT for Change to share her expertise in this field. Guided by Nandini, GADN members considered the exponential and revolutionary growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) use across systems, cultures and global value chains, exploring its multifaceted impacts on gender justice and where possibilities for feminist intervention might lie.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting on Where can transformative decolonial action take root in a moment of backlash? brought together experts in this field to lead a collective conversation with members on decolonial practice and process within the sector. With thanks to Dr Lata Narayanaswamy, Associate Professor in the Politics of Global Development at the University of Leeds; and Priya Lukka, Economist and PhD Researcher specialising in repair-based approaches, for guiding the group conversation.
Read MoreNovember 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.
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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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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.
Read MoreOctober 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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Learning paper: This learning paper explores the concept of ‘global feminist cooperation’ and some of the inherent conflicts within it, before looking at what conflict transformation approaches can offer in these spaces. It sets out GADN’s learnings in this area and concludes with a reflective exercise for readers.
Read MoreMay 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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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.
Read MoreDecember 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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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Meeting was an opportunity to take a step back, reflect and examine the challenges and opportunities that come with calls for an FFP/FDP by hearing from a range of different speakers and exchanging with other GADN members during dedicated breakout groups.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Meeting was an opportunity to hear from feminist experts working at the intersection of gender and climate in different contexts, reflect on the UK’s climate commitments and exchange with others on what this might mean for UK-based advocates working on gender.
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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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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.
Read MoreNovember 2019
Briefing: As more and more INGOs move into women’s rights work the need for deeper thought and self-reflection has become increasingly apparent. Two women’s rights organisations share their views about what they want, and don’t want, from INGOs. Written in partnership with AWID and FEMNET.
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GADN's Feminist Alternatives Project was created in response to our members’ desire to improve the effectiveness of their organisations in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, and to understand better the alternatives that are promoted by feminists globally.
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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.
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