📷 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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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.
Read MoreJune 2021
Briefing: Three academics from the Institute for Economic Justice in South Africa suggest that Covid-19 presents an opportunity to reshape macroeconomics, explain feminist approaches, explore the responses of African governments to the pandemic, and propose recommendations for a more just and equitable economic recovery.
Read MoreFebruary 2021
Briefing: As part of the COVID-19 economic recovery, feminists worldwide have been devising and calling for alternative solutions in key macroeconomic policy areas. This briefing collates and highlights these alternative proposals, centring the voices of actors who are often-overlooked by decision-makers.
Read MoreJanuary 2021
Resources: As post-pandemic economic recovery plans unfold globally, feminists and women’s rights organisations have been devising macroeconomic proposals that aim to bring the long-term transformative change needed to overcome this crisis. We will continue to add feminist proposals and resources to this page as they are published.
Read MoreAugust 2020
Guide: This guide seeks to provide an introduction to a feminist analysis of macro-level economics - a key consideration as part of the post-Covid 19 global economic recovery. FEMNET has produced this guide as the latest contribution to its annual African Feminist Macroeconomic Academy (AFMA) which aims to increase feminists’ capacity to influence macroeconomic policies on the African continent, and globally.
Read MoreJuly 2019
Briefing: Aspirations to ‘leave no one behind’ cannot be met while women continue to be pushed behind by economic policies such as austerity. Governments must consider the myriad of alternative policies that put rights and equality first. Written with FEMNET.
Read MoreMay 2018
GADN submission (Women's Economic Justice Working Group): To the International Development Select Committee Inquiry on DFID's Economic Development Strategy. Commitments to women's economic empowerment are welcome, but structural barriers must be taken take into account if it is to deliver on its commitments.
Read MoreJuly 2017
Trade has the potential to advance gender equality and realise women’s rights by expanding decent work opportunities for women and contributing to sustainable and equitable economic development. However, in many cases this potential has not been fulfilled; trade, and the agreements that establish its rules, have impacted negatively on the lives of many women.
Read MoreFebruary 2017
Government economic policy shapes women’s lives, and could be a force for equality, yet too often this potential is not realised. Government’s must play a central role in achieving women’s economic empowerment, they should prioritise tackling the underlying barriers to economic empowerment, particularly those faced by marginalised women.
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