📷 GADN Secretariat and Chair of the Board at GADN Members’ Meeting on Building Effective Anti-racist and Decolonial Practices (September 2022) © Angela Gokani Brasier
GADN produces various publications through our Advisory Group, Working Groups and Secretariat.
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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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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.
Read MoreJune 2020
Briefing: The COVID-19 pandemic exposes long-standing structural inequalities. While women and women’s rights organisations have continued to be frontline responders during this pandemic, they have also been disproportionately impacted by its effects – within the household, in the public sphere and on the frontlines.
This briefing, written in collaboration with GADN’s Working Groups, examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across a number of key thematic issues and makes recommendations on how to ‘build back better’.
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Briefing: During the COVID-19 pandemic, as in previous crises, women and women’s rights organisations are frequently essential frontline responders, and have invaluable knowledge of what works. If responses to COVID-19 are to be appropriate and effective, then women and their organisations will have to participate, and share leadership, in decision-making over their design and implementation. This briefing, written by the Women's political participation & leadership working group, proposes specific recommendations on how this can be achieved.
Read MoreMay 2018
Briefing: Political economy analysis ignores one of the most pervasive systems of power in society – gender. A gendered political economy analysis examines how gender and other social inequalities shape people’s access to power and resources, and ensures that women’s perspectives inform the process, content and use of the analysis.
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GADN was invited to comment on the way forward for the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) Strategic Vision for Women and Girls.
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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.
Read MoreGender 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.
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