📷 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 2024
Briefing: Targeting the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), this briefing explores recommendations for more gender-responsive humanitarian engagement, covering suggestions around leadership and approaches, funding modalities as well as civil society partnerships and engagement.
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Our 2023-24 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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Learning paper: This learning paper explores the concept of ‘global feminist cooperation’ and some of the inherent conflicts within it, before looking at what conflict transformation approaches can offer in these spaces. It sets out GADN’s learnings in this area and concludes with a reflective exercise for readers.
Read MoreJune 2024
Briefing: This briefing examines how states that have feminist foreign policies (FFPs) or whose foreign policies are inspired by feminist ambitions can meaningfully apply feminist approaches to humanitarian action, which is a sub-sector of foreign policy that has received comparatively little attention in FFP debates thus far.
Read MoreDecember 2023
Briefing: This briefing argues that publicly funded and managed public services and social protection are central to achieving gender equality and women’s rights. It underscores that publicly financed services are more cost-effective, sustainable and equitable despite the growing privatisation trend. It concludes with recommendations from Southern groups for increasing fiscal space.
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Learning paper: This learning paper collates lessons learned and reflections from GADN’s G7 engagement in advocating for the adoption of feminist alternatives in 2022 and 2023. It suggests further thoughts and recommendations for improving feminist cooperation within Women 7 (W7) across issues such as timeframes; advocacy; feminist representation and movement building.
Read MoreNovember 2023
Briefing: In response to the UK government’s commitment to combat rollback, this briefing explores some of the ways in which attacks on women’s and girls' rights are being experienced in areas such as women’s economic justice, women’s political and social empowerment and violence against women and girls and makes recommendations for government action.
Read MoreJuly 2023
Our 2022-23 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
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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.
Read MoreMay 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read MoreDecember 2021
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
Our 2021 Annual Review has now been released, detailing the activities and impact of the network.
Read MoreSeptember 2021
Briefing: The G7’s announcement, in June 2021, of a new deal to tax multinational corporations was met with a combination of enthusiasm and scepticism. This paper seeks to assess the G7’s tax proposal and its potential impacts on African countries, including its likely consequences for women’s rights.
Read MoreJune 2021
Briefing: The wave of Black Lives Matter protests around the world have brought into sharp focus the need to confront the ways in which Europe’s colonial past shapes our collective present. This briefing seeks to examine why UK aid must be decolonised and looks at some of the first steps the sector can take for achieving this.
Read MoreJune 2021
Briefing: Three academics from the Institute for Economic Justice in South Africa suggest that Covid-19 presents an opportunity to reshape macroeconomics, explain feminist approaches, explore the responses of African governments to the pandemic, and propose recommendations for a more just and equitable economic recovery.
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