November 2021
Our 2021 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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Briefing: The G7’s announcement, in June 2021, of a new deal to tax multinational corporations was met with a combination of enthusiasm and scepticism. This paper seeks to assess the G7’s tax proposal and its potential impacts on African countries, including its likely consequences for women’s rights.
Read MoreJune 2021
Briefing: The wave of Black Lives Matter protests around the world have brought into sharp focus the need to confront the ways in which Europe’s colonial past shapes our collective present. This briefing seeks to examine why UK aid must be decolonised and looks at some of the first steps the sector can take for achieving this.
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 MoreJune 2021
Briefing: The UK Aid cuts, and the way they are being implemented, will have wide-ranging and long-standing impacts on the world’s poorest people – in particular, women and girls. This briefing seeks to outline the UK aid cuts and examine their damaging impacts on gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights programming.
Read MoreApril 2021
Communique: Following the W7 Summit, the final Communique has now been released. It outlines the key priority areas for the G7 to commit to and resource in order to address long-standing gender inequalities as well as help fulfil women and girls’ rights.
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 MoreDecember 2020
Briefing: This briefing examines the International Monetary Fund’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, warns of some of the dangers that this response is creating and suggests some viable alternatives that could benefit women who stand to be hit the hardest.
Read MoreOur 2020 Annual Report has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
Read MoreAugust 2020
Briefing: This primer, written by GADN’s Gender and Disability working group, seeks to support international development practitioners improve their understanding on gender and disability by highlighting the issues faced by women and girls with disabilities.
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 2020
Briefing: This background briefing provides some recommendations on what a successful merger might look like from a gender equality perspective. It provides data on spending and staffing on gender equality within DFID and the FCO and reviews the quality of UK aid spend on gender equality to identify opportunities for development in the new department. Finally, some lessons learnt from similar mergers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand are explored.
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’.
Read MoreJune 2020
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 MoreFebruary 2020
Update: As we kick-start 2020 and ramp up plans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), GADN has released an update to help members get a better understanding of what’s coming up.
Read MoreFebruary 2020
Briefing: As public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly promoted, concerns about their impact are rising. This briefing concludes that the ideologically driven promotion of PPPs should be replaced by a much more nuanced and evidenced approach.
Read MoreJanuary 2020
Briefing: 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), arguably the most progressive global agenda yet for advancing women’s rights. This briefing concludes that specific economic policy reforms are vital if the aspirations made a quarter century ago are now to be realised.
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.
Read MoreJuly 2019
Thinkpiece: It has become increasingly important to think about development through the lens of intersectionality. This Thinkpiece shows how postcolonial theory also has much to offer, exploring how both intersectionality and postcolonial feminism can expand our understanding of gender, race and capitalism. Written by Sara Salem.
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