Gender & Development Network

GADN responds to Minister Baroness Chapman’s alarming remarks on Tuesday regarding the aid cuts, in which she suggested that gender equality spending will be disproportionately hit. @DavidLammy must protect spending on gender equality. Read below ⬇️ shorturl.at/PwDgf

📣 Consultancy Opportunity: Strengthening Civil Society Responses to Anti-Rights Actors @icscentre is hiring a consultant to lead a short-term project mapping & analysing strategies used by civil society to counter anti-rights actors. 📅20 July 👇Apply: tinyurl.com/d2etxjf4

🚨 @ActionAidUK is seeking a new Chair! Help shape feminist, anti-racist, decolonial leadership at a pivotal moment of transformation for the organisation. 📅10 August 👇Apply: join-actionaid.co.uk/how-apply

🚨 Treasurer vacancy at @GADNetwork (Volunteer Role) Help steer our financial governance and support feminist, decolonised development! 🕒 3 days/quarter 📍 London-based 🌍 Black women & Women of Colour encouraged to apply. 📅 10 Aug 🔗 gadnetwork.org/vacancies #GenderEquality

Bilateral spending for Africa, the Middle East, gender, education and health programmes will face cuts in 25/26. Bond will be publishing a deeper analysis on these figures later this week. In the meantime, read Bond's Gideon Rabinowitz full reaction. buff.ly/JdxYVvb

🚨 Back to the Future is a film, not a foreign policy. Last week, @careintuk & 13 NGOs sent a clear message to @Keir_Starmer & @DavidLammy: reversing decades of progress on women’s rights is not the way forward. We must protect gender-focused aid! 🔗 tinyurl.com/5xb3htpd

🚨 New resource and launch event exploring how IMF policies impact climate action—and how civil society can influence them Join @RecourseClimate for the launch of ‘A Civil Society Guide to the IMF and Climate Justice’ 📅 21 July | 2pm BST ✍️ Register: tinyurl.com/2etbju49

Dear President @CyrilRamaphosa, Here is a letter to you — from voices across the Global South. With the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Durban for the final time before the Leaders’ Summit, this is the moment for decisive action that history will remember. As G20 Chair, you…

🚨 100+ CSOs and trade unions make three joint submissions on the #UNTaxConvention 🇺🇳 Ahead of the August negotiations, CSOs and trade unions share inputs on the framework convention and two early protocols. 📄 Read the submissions here: bit.ly/3GvVF69

🌍Join @NawiAfrica for their webinar ‘Reclaiming the Future of Work – Feminist Reflections on the 113th ILO Conference’ to Interrogate ILO outcomes through feminist, decolonial & worker-centred perspectives. 📅 31 July, 1pm BST ✍️ tinyurl.com/3jhc5dfb

📣 The Feminist Trade Agenda from @gender_trade features 16 policy proposals to advance feminist trade justice—from abolishing ISDS to reclaiming policy space & defending access to medicines. ✍️ Read + endorse: bit.ly/4bFeministTrad…

🌱Join @SouthFeministas for the 25th session of their Political Economy Teach-in Series, ‘Cultivating Alliances: Women, Urban Gardens & Collective Power’, taught by @silvestre_helena, a favela-based writer, activist, and educator. 📅 23 July 2025 ✍️tinyurl.com/yrmwvct7

🚨New data from @AmnestyUK UK anti-rights actors are growing: 🔹£106M spent since 2019 by 32 orgs 🔹Biggest spenders: US branches, ultra-conservative Christian & anti-abortion groups 🔹 So-called “crisis pregnancy centres” increased spending by 46% 🔗 tinyurl.com/mtmxweje

✊🏽🌏 Another World is Possible, A Feminist World is Possible New brief from @apwld exposes how global economic policies exploit women & natural resources across the Global South—relying on women’s unpaid labour while slashing vital public services. 🔗apwld.org/publications

Food should never come with gunfire. Over 500 Palestinians have been killed and 4,000 injured under Israel’s militarized distribution scheme in Gaza. This is not a humanitarian response. Oxfam joins 240 organizations in calling for an end to this deadly system and a return to…

9 / 10 people globally support taxing the super-rich, survey by Oxfam & Greenpeace. #TaxTheSuperRich Read our new report on how extremely inequality is undermining global development efforts: oxf.am/ffd-brief-2025

📢 3 new roles available at @ActionAidUK! 💼 Prospect Research Officer 💼 Senior Trusts Manager 💼 Public Fundraising Team Assistant Apply now to help end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want 🔗actionaid.org/jobs

📢 Consultancy opportunity! @ConcernWW & @SonkeTogether are commissioning a summative evaluation of their long-term partnership on gender transformative programming. 🗓️ 15 July 🔗tinyurl.com/2kkck85w

📢 Applications are open for ‘Know Your Enemy’ – @Noor’s 2025 political education school for organisers confronting fascism, fundamentalism & authoritarianism. 🌍 For Global South organisers 📅 5 sessions, Aug–Oct 2025 💸 Free 🗓️ Apply by 13 July 🔗tinyurl.com/yc2u562s

📢 Job Alert: Tax & Gender Equality Advisor @ActionAidUK is seeking a Tax & Gender Equality Advisor to support their national and global advocacy work for progressive, gender-responsive tax and education systems. 📅 11 July 🔗tinyurl.com/4vwcta27

This system thrives on our suffering. Every billionaire bailout, austerity cut & stolen resource is proof: This system was never meant for us. We’re here to dismantle it & build a new world — one rooted in justice, dignity, and people’s power. #SystemChangeNow #FFD4People #PayUp