📷 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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December 2020
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.
Read MoreOur 2020 Annual Report has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
Read MoreAugust 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.
Read MoreAugust 2020
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.
Read MoreJuly 2020
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.
Read MoreJune 2020
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’.
Read MoreJune 2020
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.
Read MoreFebruary 2020
Update: As we kick-start 2020 and ramp up plans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), GADN has released an update to help members get a better understanding of what’s coming up.
Read MoreFebruary 2020
Briefing: As public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly promoted, concerns about their impact are rising. This briefing concludes that the ideologically driven promotion of PPPs should be replaced by a much more nuanced and evidenced approach.
Read MoreJanuary 2020
Briefing: 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), arguably the most progressive global agenda yet for advancing women’s rights. This briefing concludes that specific economic policy reforms are vital if the aspirations made a quarter century ago are now to be realised.
Read MoreNovember 2019
Briefing: As more and more INGOs move into women’s rights work the need for deeper thought and self-reflection has become increasingly apparent. Two women’s rights organisations share their views about what they want, and don’t want, from INGOs. Written in partnership with AWID and FEMNET.
Read MoreJuly 2019
Thinkpiece: It has become increasingly important to think about development through the lens of intersectionality. This Thinkpiece shows how postcolonial theory also has much to offer, exploring how both intersectionality and postcolonial feminism can expand our understanding of gender, race and capitalism. Written by Sara Salem.
Read MoreJuly 2019
Briefing: Aspirations to ‘leave no one behind’ cannot be met while women continue to be pushed behind by economic policies such as austerity. Governments must consider the myriad of alternative policies that put rights and equality first. Written with FEMNET.
Read MoreJune 2019
GADN has had another successful year promoting gender equality and women’s rights globally. We have influenced UK and international decision makers to improve the impact of their work, and supported our members to continue improving their policy and practice.
Read MoreMarch 2019
Briefing: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been widely promoted to help countries finance SDG targets, despite growing evidence that challenges the capacity of PPPs to deliver gender equality and other social goals. Written in partnership with Eurodad and FEMNET.
Read MoreJanuary 2019
Briefing: Social protection, public services and infrastructure interact with women’s rights and gender equality. If Governments maximise spending in these areas in an integrated, gender-responsive way, it can be a powerful tool for gender equality. Written in partnership with FEMNET.
Read MoreNovember 2018
Think piece: Kate Horstead, Age International, considers the impact of structural inequalities across the entire life course, suggesting that this is an important area that needs more research and analysis.
Read MoreAugust 2018
Briefing: A binding gender-just international accountability framework for Transnational Corporations (TNCs) is crucial. A collaboration between a wide range of organisations under the umbrella of the Feminists for a Binding Treaty coalition.
Read MoreAugust 2018
Think piece: Zimbabwe-based feminist activist Nancy Kachingwe shares her thoughts about how best to tackle cultures of exploitation in the sector. Following revelations in early-2018 of sexual abuse and violence among international aid and humanitarian agencies.
Read MoreAugust 2018
Briefing: Dinah Musindarwezo, Womankind Worldwide, outlines how public debt and its servicing are a particular problem for the African continent, undermining the ability of governments to meet their commitments on gender equality and the promotion of women’s rights.
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