Working Groups
GADN Working Groups bring together members working on specific issues related to gender and development, there is also a group which shares best practice on programming. Working Groups facilitate joint advocacy, research, networking and knowledge exchange and learning. They are created in response to member demand and are paused or ended when members’ capacity or interest in continuing a group is limited.
Meetings take place every 6 weeks – 3 months, depending on the needs of the group. Outside of the meetings, members share updates and resources or ask questions via email lists.
Each group has two or three co-chairs who are responsible for drafting and consulting with the group on an annual work plan, ensuring the group meets regularly, setting meeting agendas and reporting back to the Advisory Group and Secretariat on activities.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (email list only)
Groups currently paused:
Girls' Education (Paused)
Gender and Disability (Paused)
Gender and Environment (Paused)
Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) (Paused)
Join a Working Group
Working Groups are open to all members to participate as representatives of their organisation. You can join as many groups as you wish.
If you would like to join a Working Group, email coordinator@gadnetwork.org specifying which group you are interested in.
“Being part of GADN is essential for my job and my professional development. It’s where I go to learn, seek advice and be challenged to work more effectively on gender equality.”
- Priya Nath, Equality, inclusion and rights advisor, WaterAid
Women of Colour (WoC) Forum
As part of our commitment to a more critical understanding of race, post-coloniality and intersectionality within international development discourse and practice, GADN is offering to support the creation of a women of colour-only space for those working in the UK aid sector. GADN recognises that women of colour need their own spaces to gather and be free from mainstream marginalisation and discrimination so often found in places of work and across British society more broadly.
The Forum is open to all self-identifying women of colour in the sector. Get in touch with comms@gadnetwork.org to find out more.
Access the Chairs of Working Groups area (password protected)
📷 GADN members at ‘Feminist Responses to Safeguarding’ workshop (May 2019)