May 2018
GADN recommendations: How INGOs should respond to revelations of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse. Based on the experiences and research of GADN members organisations.
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May 2018
Briefing: Political economy analysis ignores one of the most pervasive systems of power in society – gender. A gendered political economy analysis examines how gender and other social inequalities shape people’s access to power and resources, and ensures that women’s perspectives inform the process, content and use of the analysis.
Read MoreNovember 2017
Intersectionality is increasingly referred to among feminists but frequently undefined, leaving the term open to a variety of interpretations: what it means in practice and how to put it to use is still unclear to many. GADN attempts a summary of the discussion in order to assist our members and colleagues to better define the concept and how to use it.
Read MoreSeptember 2017
Discussion paper: The ability to advance women’s economic empowerment will be shaped by the overall economic environment, and macroeconomic policies. A collaboration with members of the UNSG’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Led by UN Women, with contributions from GADN, WIEGO, the ILO, the ITUC, Open Society Foundations and ActionAid.
Read MoreJuly 2017
Trade has the potential to advance gender equality and realise women’s rights by expanding decent work opportunities for women and contributing to sustainable and equitable economic development. However, in many cases this potential has not been fulfilled; trade, and the agreements that establish its rules, have impacted negatively on the lives of many women.
Read MoreFebruary 2017
Government economic policy shapes women’s lives, and could be a force for equality, yet too often this potential is not realised. Government’s must play a central role in achieving women’s economic empowerment, they should prioritise tackling the underlying barriers to economic empowerment, particularly those faced by marginalised women.
Read MoreFebruary 2017
Unpaid care work, performed mostly by women around the world, is a key piece of the empowerment puzzle: it entrenches the subordination of women in society but, at the same time, it is indispensable for economic growth and human wellbeing. We outline key recommendations to governments around unpaid care work.
Read MoreJanuary 2017
Ahead of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), the Gender & Development Network has developed a factsheet which provides an overview of the structural economic barriers to women’s economic empowerment. For each of these areas, the factsheet makes recommendations to governments.
Read MoreOctober 2016
Our initial response to the Panel’s first report, Leave no one behind: a call to action on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, outlines its strengths as well as the areas where more work will be needed as we move forward to the Panel’s next report in March 2017.
Read MoreMay 2016
The achievement of women’s economic equality and empowerment (WEE) is pivotal to the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights, yet it has received inadequate attention to date. When WEE has been discussed, too often it is in relation to generating economic growth rather than gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s rights.
Read MoreMay 2016
Around the world, the way women live and work is shaped by economic policies that dictate the kinds of employment, resources, benefits and decision-making power available to them. True empowerment begins with tackling the structural barriers that women face. This means turning our attention to macroeconomics and its impact on gender equality and women’s rights.
Read MoreMarch 2016
GADN has partnered with WaterAid to produce a new briefing, Achieving gender equality through WASH.
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GADN recommendations: As the UK co-hosted the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference 2016, GADN called on the Government to ensure that the rights and needs of women and girls are prioritised in line Women, Peace and Security commitments and international humanitarian law. Written in partnership with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS).
Read MoreNovember 2015
Briefing: Rachel Noble and Malou Schueller of the GADN Economic Justice working group on why National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights must integrate and prioritise gender equality and women’s human rights.
Read MoreOctober 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.
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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July 2015
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.
Read MoreJuly 2015
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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