Promotes the integration of work on gender equality and disability.

The Gender and Disability Working Group brings together professionals from UK-based mainstream and disability-specific organisations, independent consultants and disabled people’s organisations around the world. 

The Gender and Disability Working Group:

  • Shares experiences and learning on issues faced by disabled women and girls.

  • Offers capacity building advice, support and expertise to GADN member organisations to be more inclusive of women and girls with disabilities.

  • Develops links between the disability and women’s movements.

  • Informs INGO and UK Government policy and practice.

Please note that the group is currently paused.

About the issue

Learn about gender and disability and see resources from GADN members and others.

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The intersection of gender and disability: A primer for international development practitioners

August 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.

📷 Rebecca Terzeon of DFID speaks at a GADN Members Meeting on DFID’s Strategic Vision for Gender Equality (November 2018)