July 2023
Our 2022-23 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Meeting was an opportunity to hear from feminist experts working at the intersection of gender and climate in different contexts, reflect on the UK’s climate commitments and exchange with others on what this might mean for UK-based advocates working on gender.
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Briefing: This briefing explores whether the World Bank’s Invest in Childcare initiative is an adequate vehicle for donor funds aimed at achieving gender equality and responding to the care crisis.
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Briefing: This briefing explores ‘reparations approaches’ and their potential contribution towards ensuring that decolonisation is a transformative response where former colonisers acknowledge, remedy and redress the devastating legacies of European colonialism and slavery. It examines what they are, why they are owed, and what international development organisations should do.
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Response: The 2023 G7 Leaders’ Communique included some positive language on gender equality, including the need to address structural barriers and resist attempts to rollback women’s rights. However, it remained light on action and funding commitments.
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Members’ Meeting: The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office’s (FCDO) much-anticipated International Women and Girls Strategy has been released in time for International Women's Day, on 8 March 2023. This GADN Members’ Meeting was an opportunity to hear about and discuss the new Strategy and its implementation with the FCDO’s Gender Hub.
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Response: GADN welcomes the release of the FCDO’s new International Women and Girls Strategy, particularly its commitment to combatting rollback, and resourcing women's rights organisations and movements. But concerns remain over how the Strategy will be resourced and implemented, as well as its limited framing around the '3Es' and how it will be mainstreamed across government.
Read MoreJanuary 2023
Response: GADN is pleased to see the FCDO’s response to the IDC’s report on Racism in the aid sector and welcomes the FCDO’s ongoing and intended measures to address some of the concerns raised in the report. However, it is clear that more work is required to fully comprehend and sufficiently respond to the scale of the problems identified within the IDC’s findings.
Read MoreDecember 2022
Members’ Meeting: In this meeting, GADN, in conversation with Priyanthi Fernando and Dinah Musindarwezo, shares reflections from a recent learning paper to interrogate the roles of organisations that benefit from ‘Global North power and privilege’ in combatting global injustices.
Read MoreDecember 2022
Learning paper: Organisations that benefit from ‘Global North power and privilege’ must reassess their roles. In conversation with advocates globally, this paper explores the ways traditional redistribution of funds and other resources perpetuates colonialism and proposes changes. Critically, it spotlights the duty of such organisations to challenge Northern governments that perpetuate global injustices.
Read MoreJuly 2022
Our 2021-22 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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Response: The G7 Leaders’ Summit signposts language and initiatives that shape future international negotiations. This year’s Communique includes language on gender-equal global recovery, the importance of care, structural barriers to equality faced by women in all their diversity, and even mentioned feminist foreign policies. But it falls short in implementation, failing to support new measures on vaccine equity, debt cancellation or progressive global taxation.
Read MoreMay 2022
Survey report: The Membership Survey aims to investigate GADN’s progress against the aims and objectives detailed in the GADN 2020–23 Strategy and to understand how the Network is perceived and engaged with by members, as well as how we can improve our work, systems and processes.
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Response: After much anticipation, the UK government has released its International Development Strategy (IDS). GADN’s response examines what the IDS means for the UK’s international work on gender equality and highlights how the Strategy’s focus on British investment partnerships may undermine this priority.
Read MoreMarch 2022
Briefing: A just Covid-19 economic recovery must centre care. GADN and the Women’s Budget Group propose a “care package” with practical actions needed in five areas: invest in social infrastructure; create decent work for underpaid carers; recognise unpaid care work; provide universally accessible social protection; and re-value care and well-being within economic recovery.
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Report: Working with feminists and women’s rights organisations in Argentina, India, the Philippines and Uganda, this report builds on women’s experiences during Covid-19 to develop concrete lessons for transformative change. We propose viable feminist policy alternatives to promote participatory decision-making, apply intersectional feminist analyses and adopt alternative feminist economic proposals. Together this will centre care, sustainability and well-being within Covid-19 economic recovery.
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CSW66 NGO Forum Parallel Event: This CSW66 NGO Forum Parallel Event examined some of the Covid-19 policy responses and their impacts on women’s rights and gender equality in four national contexts. It offered a space to explore the many shared experiences, as well as important lessons for potentially transformative future proposals.
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Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting provided an opportunity to re-examine transformative feminist alternatives as part of ongoing global Covid-19 recovery efforts.
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Briefing: The Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda’s call to transform crisis response is more important than ever – for peacebuilding and for humanitarian response. As we set the agenda beyond 2021, the UK should make WPS a foundational part of gender-responsive humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery in the wake of Covid-19.
This briefing was produced by the GADN Humanitarian Working Group in collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK), Fe-Male, the Gender Equality Network and the Gender Violence Recovery Centre.
Read MoreNovember 2021
Members’ Meeting: GADN and the GADN Women of Colour Forum co-hosted author Rafia Zakaria for an event in which she unpacked and discussed the concept of ‘White Feminism’, as detailed in her latest book "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption".
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