📷 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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October 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not everything we wanted. However, there are glimpses of concern about gender inequality – or at least a desire to ‘leave no one behind’. And, it does provide us with some valuable rhetoric with which to hold governments to account.
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GADN submission: Whilst welcoming the proposed strategy GADN challenges the WBG to go further in its ambition and address deep structural inequalities and gender discrimination. By Daphne Jayasinghe, published in Wide+ newsletter.
Read MoreAugust 2015
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major global reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The Gender and Development Network alongside many other organisations have collectively called on the WHS to put women’s leadership, gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) at the heart of these reforms.
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GADN submission (Women's Economic Justice Working Group): Highlights the gender-specific impact of business on women's human rights which frequently tend to be overlooked, and makes a case for strengthening policy coherence between the UK Government's commitments on women’s rights, the business and human rights agenda, and its rapidly expanding focus on promoting the role of the private sector in development.
Read MoreJuly 2015
The rights concerning women and girls with disabilities is a central issue deeply connected to IDDC’s and GADN’s priorities and the priorities of the members of IDDC and GADN. We welcome the Committee’s commitment to tackling multiple discrimination on the grounds of gender and disability and its recognition of the complexity of this cross-cutting issue. We also recognise the potential impact of this General Comment in bringing greater clarity regarding multiple discrimination issues more broadly beyond gender and disability. This submission intends to build on the strengths of the Committee’s analysis of gender and disability.
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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.
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While some important advances have been made, and must now be protected, the Gender and Development Network (GADN) argues that there are some areas where improvement is still needed. The paper is our response updated in the light of the ‘Final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda’.
Read MoreJuly 2015
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major structural reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The Gender and Development Network (GADN) believes that transformative change in the humanitarian system is impossible unless reforms account for gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV).
Read MoreJuly 2015
Members of the Gender and Development Network (GADN) Post-2015 working group propose indicators for the suggested targets under Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the zero draft outcome document of the Open Working Group. These reflect their substantial analysis of the Post 2015 framework which can be found at www.gadnetwork.org.
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The Women's Economic Justice working group has written a submission to the World Bank Gender Strategy on key gender gaps that the World Bank Group should focus on to support countries in implementing these goals.
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In our briefing paper Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond the Gender and Development Network has outlined how gender equality and women’s rights should be addressed in the Financing for Development Process. In this summary document, we highlight our five key messages in relation to the ongoing negotiation on the Addis Ababa Accord, and make specific language suggestions based on drafts to date.
Read MoreJune 2015
Throughout the Post-2015 process, many governments have successfully championed gender equality within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is now vital that sufficient funding is secured and that, crucially, this is of high quality and raised in a way that promotes gender equality and women’s rights. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) provides a timely opportunity. However, although there has been significant visibility of gender equality issues within the FfD3 process, there has been limited recognition that different sources of financing have differing impacts on gender equality or that gender biases within the economy continue to reinforce discrimination against women and girls.
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.
Read MoreMarch 2015
Explores the concept and practicalities of gender mainstreaming. Sets out the component parts of gender mainstreaming, how these relate to each other, and how they collectively contribute towards the wider goal of gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights.
February 2015
Throughout the discussions around the post-2015 framework some major advances have been made towards the achievement of gender equality, and there are a number of proposals that we believe are essential to protect as we move towards the final deliberations. However, the Gender and Development Network (GADN) remains concerned about various issues that are continuing to undermine the creation of a truly progressive framework strong enough to tackle the deep rooted and persistent gender inequalities that exist.
Read MoreNovember 2014
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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In this paper we reflect first on the overall current state of the post-2015 debate and then comment on the final Outcome Document of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals, suggesting what could be usefully kept or improved.
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This briefing discusses how all donors and humanitarian actors participating in the Call to Action can take further steps to translate high level commitments to change on the ground, with the ultimate goal of improving the life, safety, dignity and resilience of women, girls and GBV survivors in current emergencies, including survivors of harmful practices like such as early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).
Read MoreJuly 2014
This briefing provides evidence of the many benefits of tackling women’s disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, and suggests practical proposals for implementation and indicators for measuring progress. While we suggest that the current wording of the proposed target could be improved, the recognition of unpaid care in this global development agenda would in itself represent an important advance, and therefore our main concern is to preserve its inclusion.
Read MoreJune 2014
The GADN Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) working group have launched the publication 'Harmful Traditional Practices, Your Questions: Our Answers', providing an overview of harmful traditional practices, explaining their causes and consequences and bringing together examples of successful approaches to addressing them.
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