📷 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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April 2021
Event: On 21–22 April 2021, the W7 Summit brought together feminist experts, activists and practitioners from G7 countries and all around the world to amplify the voices, perspectives and leadership of those not commonly included in the G7 forum. Participants collaborated on proposals for the G7 and agreed on concrete and meaningful actions in pursuit of gender justice. Selected recordings from the event’s speakers are now available.
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Members’ Meeting: 2021 is a critical year for global gender advocacy, particularly with the UK hosting both the G7 and COP26, the fulfilment of the Generation Equality Forum and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. GADN’s February members’ meeting introduced GADN members to some of these key global processes and developments with the UK government and provided a space for further discussion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Update: While 2020 was due to mark the 25th anniversary since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many of the global convenings that had been planned for this year.
At the end of 2020, this update provides a brief overview of the revised plans and what to expect in 2021.
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Members’ Meeting: GADN’s November members’ meeting looked at how we can apply an anti-racist and decolonial lens to our work. The meeting introduced GADN members to the concept of ‘decolonising development’ as well discussing how we begin the process of decolonisation and what such a practise aims to achieve.
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Response: The UK government’s announcement that it will abandon its legally binding commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on overseas aid, in the midst of an unprecedented global economic recession and a pandemic, is short-sighted, insular and can only diminish the UK’s international reputation.
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Response: The International Development Committee put out a secondary call for evidence in order to consider the secondary impacts of the Coronavirus in developing countries.
GADN, alongside Nawi-Macroeconomics Collective, made a submission examining the impacts of the looming global debt crisis on developing countries’ abilities to fulfil women’s human rights.
Read MoreOur 2020 Annual Report has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Statement: In the wake of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, GADN’s Women of Colour Forum wrote a collective statement and recommendations on addressing systemic racism and White supremacy in the UK international aid sector.
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Statement: GADN Board and staff stand in solidarity with anti-racism activists and movements, and make our own commitments towards anti-racist work.
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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.
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Response: GADN, alongside its sister networks and a select number of CEOs from our member organisations wrote to the Secretary of State for International Development to highlight the need for a strong gender analysis to be at the heart of DFID's Coronavirus response, as well as to encourage increased support to local women's rights organisations who were acting as frontline responders.
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Webinar: As part of GADN’s quarterly members’ meeting, we were joined by Noelene Nabulivou, Leah Eryenyu and Mishy Singano to discuss how the pandemic is playing out in the Global South and how Women’s Rights Organisations are responding and organising.
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Response: The NAO Report ‘Improving the lives of women and girls overseas’ explores whether DFID has secured value for money in improving gender equality. The Gender and Development Network has outlined its main reflections in response to the report.
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