August 2024
Statement: GADN Board and staff stand in solidarity with anti-racism activists and movements as part of our own ongoing commitments towards anti-racism work.
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Response: The 2024 G7 Leaders’ Communique included some positive language on gender equality but presents a regression from last year’s text, especially concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights - particularly the omission of reference to safe and legal abortions.
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Response: The newly launched White Paper on International Development guides the UK’s approach to the new global realities we face. GADN welcomes the White Paper’s important political prioritisation of gender equality and the rights of women and girls, along with the ambition to strengthen and reform the international system. However, concerns remain about the substance of these commitments and their operationalisation.
Read MoreMay 2023
Response: The 2023 G7 Leaders’ Communique included some positive language on gender equality, including the need to address structural barriers and resist attempts to rollback women’s rights. However, it remained light on action and funding commitments.
Read MoreMarch 2023
Response: GADN welcomes the release of the FCDO’s new International Women and Girls Strategy, particularly its commitment to combatting rollback, and resourcing women's rights organisations and movements. But concerns remain over how the Strategy will be resourced and implemented, as well as its limited framing around the '3Es' and how it will be mainstreamed across government.
Read MoreJanuary 2023
Response: GADN is pleased to see the FCDO’s response to the IDC’s report on Racism in the aid sector and welcomes the FCDO’s ongoing and intended measures to address some of the concerns raised in the report. However, it is clear that more work is required to fully comprehend and sufficiently respond to the scale of the problems identified within the IDC’s findings.
Read MoreJune 2022
Response: The G7 Leaders’ Summit signposts language and initiatives that shape future international negotiations. This year’s Communique includes language on gender-equal global recovery, the importance of care, structural barriers to equality faced by women in all their diversity, and even mentioned feminist foreign policies. But it falls short in implementation, failing to support new measures on vaccine equity, debt cancellation or progressive global taxation.
Read MoreMay 2022
Response: After much anticipation, the UK government has released its International Development Strategy (IDS). GADN’s response examines what the IDS means for the UK’s international work on gender equality and highlights how the Strategy’s focus on British investment partnerships may undermine this priority.
Read MoreJune 2021
Response: Following the conclusion of the G7 Summit today, G7 Leaders released their final Communique. In a joint response, the co-chairs of this year’s Women 7 (W7) - GADN and GAPS - raise concerns that the Communique fails to adequately address gender equality concerns and does not provide the vital financial commitments required.
Read MoreJune 2021
Response: UK charities, alongside GADN and GAPS - co-chairs of this year’s Women 7 (W7) - warn that the UK is likely to lose its global leadership role on gender equality if it fails to include the Gender Equality Advisory Council’s recommendations as part of the final G7 agreement.
Read MoreNovember 2020
Response: The UK government’s announcement that it will abandon its legally binding commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on overseas aid, in the midst of an unprecedented global economic recession and a pandemic, is short-sighted, insular and can only diminish the UK’s international reputation.
Read MoreJuly 2020
Statement: In the wake of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, GADN’s Women of Colour Forum wrote a collective statement and recommendations on addressing systemic racism and White supremacy in the UK international aid sector.
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Statement: GADN Board and staff stand in solidarity with anti-racism activists and movements, and make our own commitments towards anti-racist work.
Read MoreApril 2020
Response: GADN, alongside its sister networks and a select number of CEOs from our member organisations wrote to the Secretary of State for International Development to highlight the need for a strong gender analysis to be at the heart of DFID's Coronavirus response, as well as to encourage increased support to local women's rights organisations who were acting as frontline responders.
Read MoreJuly 2017
GADN was invited to comment on the way forward for the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) Strategic Vision for Women and Girls.
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