📷 GADN Secretariat and Chair of the Board at GADN Members’ Meeting on Building Effective Anti-racist and Decolonial Practices (September 2022) © Angela Gokani Brasier
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March 2025
Letter: Prime Minister Starmer has announced substantial cuts in UK aid. GADN and members call for a reversal of the decision and urge Foreign Secretary Lammy to prioritise gender equality within diminished aid budgets while championing the rights of women and girls on the international stage.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN members’ meeting, titled ‘Reflecting on 30 Years Since Beijing: Preparing for CSW69’ convened speakers representing women’s rights organisations from the UK and beyond as well as UN Women to discuss the upcoming CSW, sharing priorities and reflections with the Beijing Platform for Action in mind. The panel was chaired by Yamina Ouldali and speakers included Brianna Howell and Loui Williams of UN Women, Nicole Maloba of FEMNET, Heather Knight of Plan International UK and Shiphrah Belonguel of Fòs Feminista.
Read MoreDecember 2023
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
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.
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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 MoreOctober 2023
GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Meeting was an opportunity to take a step back, reflect and examine the challenges and opportunities that come with calls for an FFP/FDP by hearing from a range of different speakers and exchanging with other GADN members during dedicated breakout groups.
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GADN Members’ Meeting: This GADN Meeting was an opportunity to hear from feminist experts working at the intersection of gender and climate in different contexts, reflect on the UK’s climate commitments and exchange with others on what this might mean for UK-based advocates working on gender.
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Members’ Meeting: The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office’s (FCDO) much-anticipated International Women and Girls Strategy has been released in time for International Women's Day, on 8 March 2023. This GADN Members’ Meeting was an opportunity to hear about and discuss the new Strategy and its implementation with the FCDO’s Gender Hub.
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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 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.
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Submission: GADN submission to consultations for the UK’s new International Development Strategy on 6th September
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Submission: GADN submission to the Labour Party Consultation on Achieving Gender Equality in Development on 1st July
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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.
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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 MoreJune 2021
Briefing: The UK Aid cuts, and the way they are being implemented, will have wide-ranging and long-standing impacts on the world’s poorest people – in particular, women and girls. This briefing seeks to outline the UK aid cuts and examine their damaging impacts on gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights programming.
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Response: As co-chairs of this year’s W7, GADN and GAPS’ submission to the IDC looks at the UK Government’s strategy and process in making the aid cuts while holding the G7 Presidency. It considers the likely impact of the cuts on gender equality and women’s rights and concludes with a set of recommendations for the UK Government.
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Response: GADN’s submission to the IDC Inquiry examines the historical processes that have resulted in the current structure of the international aid sector and its practical implications. The submission also addresses issues of racism in the aid sector and concludes with a set of recommendations for the UK Government.
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Members’ Meeting: 2021 is a critical year for global gender advocacy, particularly with the UK hosting both the G7 and COP26, the fulfilment of the Generation Equality Forum and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. GADN’s February members’ meeting introduced GADN members to some of these key global processes and developments with the UK government and provided a space for further discussion.
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.
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