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Gender and Development Network

@gadnetwork.bsky.social
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A network of UK-based NGOs & experts collaborating internationally to promote gender equality & the rights of women & girls in all their diversity

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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 @actionaiduk.bsky.social is recruiting a Head of Research & Policy to lead feminist research, policy & influencing work across women’s rights, peace & security, humanitarian action, climate & economic justice. 💷 £56,574 p.a. 🗓 7 October 🔗 www.actionaid.org.uk/jobs/fixed/h...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🕊️ Rewatch APWLD’s webinar series “Women Resisting Militarism’s Grip Over Asia and the Pacific, Demanding Feminist Peace and Justice.” Hear women from across Asia and the Pacific on militarism’s impacts, interconnected struggles and feminist resistance. 🔗 bit.ly/FPJ_Campaign... #DefundWar
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📚 New from ActionAid: Challenging the crackdown on women's rights: what feminist movements need to sustain resistance. The report calls on donors and INGOs to provide flexible, long-term funding, build trust-based partnerships and protect civic space. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s4d57s8
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣Upcoming event from Black Feminist Fund’s Politics Series: “Countering the Opposition: Lessons from African Feminists.” African feminists will share lessons from decades of resistance to anti-rights movements, repression and criminalisation. 🗓 30 September ⏰ 3pm BST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3c6tz2zu
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 The global debt crisis is a gender justice crisis. GADN & @actionaiduk.bsky.social have published a new briefing breaking down this fundamental connection, with recommendations for the UK Govt on how it should use its G20 presidency to take action. Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rx2h5x9
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌍 New from @iwda.bsky.social : Gender and Climate Justice: why the climate crisis demands systemic change. This piece explores how patriarchal, colonial and extractive systems shape unequal climate impacts, and why feminist climate justice must transform who holds power. 🔗 tinyurl.com/55jf6npa
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 Upcoming feminist learning series: six online sessions on feminist knowledge, accountability, online harm, organising under pressure and collective practice. 🗓 16, 23 & 30 Sept 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yjay3xw8
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌊 Upcoming event from The WONDER Foundation: Ripple Effects: How Mentoring & Vocational Training Change Young Women’s Futures in Uganda A conversation on the role of mentoring & skills training in supporting young women’s education, employment & futures in Uganda. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/636jjpfs
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📄 New from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social and @debtjustice.bsky.social : Now is the Time to Act - Six Reforms for the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments. The report sets out reforms needed to make debt restructuring faster, fairer and more effective. 🔗 tinyurl.com #debtjustice #cancelthedebt
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📊 New from @actionaiduk.bsky.social : Violence against women: the statistics around the world - a resource bringing together data that highlights the global scale of violence against women and girls. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mtrhmmjc
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
📄 @odi.global : Delivering on gender equality: the missing piece in climate and food systems policy. This briefing examines why climate and food systems policies, finance and institutions continue to exclude women and why gender equality is essential to a just transition. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu4nx8wx
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Upcoming launch from Noor: Roots of Hate: Fascist & Fundamentalist Narratives & Actors in the Caribbean. Join Caribbean movement organisers to discuss anti-rights organising & traditions of feminist, Black, Indigenous, queer, & anti-colonial resistance. 🗓 2 Sept, 3pm BST 🔗 tinyurl.com/mv68yvn3
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🌎@wedo-worldwide.bsky.social: Community Consent in the Extraction Economy. Feminist academic Diana Vela Almeida discusses extractivism, community consultation and consent & why meaningful participation must be central to just climate and energy transitions. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2rkucx5t #justtransition
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What can feminist artivism teach us about resisting dominant narratives & recovering suppressed histories? South Feminist Futures’ Teach-In #34 brought together Global South feminist voices on artivism, memory, Pan-Africanism and decolonial futures. Watch it back here: tinyurl.com/mr3xa9ye
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📣 Upcoming UN advocacy training for feminist advocates The Young Feminist Caucus, is hosting a six-week online training on UN mechanisms, countering anti-rights agendas and youth participation in global SRHR policy. 🗓 25 Aug - 8 Oct 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yb2c7vya
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📢 @careintuk.bsky.social UK on is recruiting a Director of Programmes, Policy and Advocacy to lead its international development, humanitarian, policy and advocacy portfolio. 📍 London (hybrid) 💼 Permanent, full-time 🗓 Deadline: 31 August 🔗 tinyurl.com/25eah87h
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📄 @wideplus.bsky.social is recruiting a consultant to research legal barriers to migrant women’s political rights in the EU (voting, standing for office, and exclusions by migration status), as part of the WE-EMPOWER II project. 🗓 Deadline: 18 Aug 🔗 Full call & apply: wideplus.org?s=political+...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📢 FIGO is recruiting a consultant / team to evaluate its Fistula Surgery Training Initiative, assessing achievements so far and programme design to shape the next phase. 🗓 Proposal deadline: 16 Aug 2026 🔗 www.figo.org/figo-vacancies
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📄 New from @cesr.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social: three resources on what it takes to tax extreme wealth in practice, not just on paper. 🔗 Framework + case studies: www.cesr.org/institutiona...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 @cherieblairfndn.bsky.social is recruiting a Senior Communications Officer (short term) to provide comms cover until the end of 2026, helping deliver day‑to‑day comms that support women entrepreneurs to thrive. 🗓 Deadline to apply: 11 August 🔗 tinyurl.com/9a8uc86v
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🕊️ New APWLD webinar series on women resisting militarism & demanding feminist peace & justice. The series will platform the voices of women in Asia and the Pacific living under militarism & strengthen calls to fund feminist peace & justice 🗓 6 Aug, 20 Aug, 3 Sept, 11 Sept 🔗 tinyurl.com/4rum835k
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BRICS Feminist Watch is hosting a webinar exploring how BRICS is shaping debates on development finance, energy transitions, labour and care economies - and what this means for women and marginalised communities. 📅 22 July ⏰ 1:30–2:30pm BST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/34xk6nff #BRICS
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📊 Upcoming webinar: Youth AI Survey 2026 findings @restlessdevelopment.org is hosting a webinar to share findings from the Youth AI Survey, which explores how young people in low‑income countries are using AI and what it means for their futures. 📅 21 July ⏰ 1:00pm BST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/a2jfk9jm
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📣 Global launch: Peoples’ Global Campaign against the IMF World Bank, marking 82 years since Bretton Woods and eight decades of harmful neoliberal policies. 📅 22 July 2026 ⏰11am BST 💻 Register: bit.ly/PGCGlobalLau...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
💭 To celebrate diverse forms of feminist resistance, We Are Feminist Leaders is seeking submissions for a global, open-access Anthology of Resistance. 🔗Read the full guidance and submit your work here: tinyurl.com/38e687tc #FeministResistance
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New report from APWLD: “The Perils of Neoliberal Capitalism: Women's Lives Under Debt in Asia” The report examines how IFIs and debt “solutions” designed by Global North governments and corporations reinforce neocolonial financial structures 🔗 apwld.org/resources/pu...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🔎New reports from The Circle examine 17 global due diligence laws and find many fail to protect workers. Women are often most affected, facing low pay, insecure work, harassment, and barriers to justice. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y8wek657
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📚Noor’s “Know Your Enemy 2026” (5-week political education space) is open to organisers now! Participants must apply by 12 July. 🔗Please share with your networks and click here to find out more: tinyurl.com/2cwrefzb
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📣FIGO is recruiting a part-time Programme Manager (English/French) to lead global health projects, including its Advocating for Safe Abortion programme in Francophone West Africa. SRHR and MEL experience desirable. 🗓 14 July 🔗 tinyurl.com/39wvmcsa
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📄New report from FIGO highlights the impact of the LDI:REACH programme on maternal and newborn health - finding that the programme strengthened health systems and expanded life-saving maternal and newborn care through leadership-focused approaches. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3xuujfc7
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Join the Institute for Journalism and Social Change and @noor.network for the global launch of “Big Tech Cash for the Backlash,” a new report tracing how tech philanthropy funds both human rights and anti-rights groups. 🗓16 July, 2pm BST 🔗Register: tinyurl.com/3x2vz4u7
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎓Two sessions remain in the Gender IFI Summer School! Join to unpack how the IFIs impact women’s rights, and economic justice, and explore feminist strategies for resistance. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5x5kn2cy
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📣Volunteer opportunity with GADN: Membership Communications Volunteers Are you passionate about women’s rights and gender equality, and want comms/admin experience in a feminist, anti‑racist network? 📎Learn more and apply by 13 July: tinyurl.com/4m5syym9
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🎥 Upcoming parliamentary documentary screening on UK aid cuts, maternal health and women’s rights - “A Matter of Life or Death: Giving Birth in Sierra Leone”. The screening will be followed by a discussion on the impact of UK aid cuts in Sierra Leone. 🗓 2 July 🔗 Register: luma.com/n0794exa
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📢 FORWARD is recruiting a Communications and Events Officer to support its mission to end violence against women and girls and amplify the voices of African women and girls. 🗓 Deadline: 9 July 🔗 Details and how to apply: www.forwarduk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📢 New GADN report! As aid flows diminish, private finance dominates development financing discussions, but its impact on equality and social justice remains unproven. A far more nuanced, evidence-driven approach is non-negotiable. Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/3ScPdqc
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📢 CARE International is hiring an Interim Senior Programme Manager (UK, hybrid) to lead complex, multi-country humanitarian and development programmes, including on gender equality, WASH, women’s economic justice and climate justice. 🗓 Deadline: 21 June 🔗 tinyurl.com/yma3uycy
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 @girlsnotbrides.bsky.social is hiring a Head of Programme Design and Quality to lead strategic and technical leadership across its global Country Impact work to end child marriage. 🗓 Deadline: 15 June 🔗 tinyurl.com/arjfmpsk
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🧾 Launch event from @actionaiduk.bsky.social and partners: Still Cooking with a Failed Recipe - new analysis of IMF advice on social spending, public services, tax and gender equality across 11 countries. 🗓 23 June ⏰ 12–2pm BST 🔗 tinyurl.com/4jc2adhd
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
💻Upcoming webinar: launching Guttmacher’s Safe Abortion Calculator - a first-of-its-kind tool to help advocates, feminist organisations, civil society and policymakers make the economic case for safe abortion. 📅 Thursday 11 June ⏰ 2:00pm BST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ynmt3k3u
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🌏Debt levels in the Philippines are the highest in 20 years. In Quezon City, the women of Oriang face devastating floods and little support for rebuilding due to policies that automatically prioritise repayments over urgent public needs. @eurodadnews.bsky.social #RealCostofDebt
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📢 @womankindworldwide.bsky.social is recruiting a UK & Global Advocacy Manager to help drive decolonial feminist policy and advocacy in the UK and globally. 🗓 15 June 🔗 Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/3fx4ypfz
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Upcoming from @odi.global: A question of parity - how to elect women into power in times of democratic backlash. Join to understand how democratic backsliding & anti‑rights agendas are driving women out of politics and what it takes to defend gender parity. 🗓 9 June, 5:30pm 🔗 shorturl.at/ERg9a
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🪫Workshop on energy subsidy reform from Global South perspectives! FARN, Recourse, MENAfem, Bretton Woods Project & Alternative Law Collective will unpack IMF/IFI cuts to consumer subsidies, their gendered inequality impacts, & just alternatives. 🗓 4 June, 2pm BST 💻https://tinyurl.com/sbsds
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
WEN Wales is recruiting a Policy and Communications Officer to support evidence-based policy and impactful communications for gender equality in Wales 🗓 Deadline: 1 June 🔗 Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/ycs4ak44
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Malala Fund, @menafem.bsky.social, @amwaafrika.bsky.social and the Debt Justice for Girls Alliance are hosting a learning circle to hear organisations from the SWANA region speak to what they are seeing on the ground and what they need allies to do. 🗓 10 June ⏰ 12pm BST 💻https://mala.la/4ndesnq
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join South Feminist Futures’ next Political Economy Teach-in: “Organizing for Rights: Reproductive Justice in Praxis” with Nana Abuelsoud. 📅 Thu 21 May ⏰ 2pm BST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/bde69m43
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This May, @thenawicollective.bsky.social is hosting a Labour Month webinar series, “Feminist Labour Futures in an Age of Crisis”, to ask: how do we reorganise work to sustain life, not profit? 🗓 14, 19, 21 & 26 May, 12:00pm (BST) 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yjme98pt #FeministEconomics
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join FIGO tomorrow for their webinar on complexity in caesarean care, exploring risk reduction and respectful care during caesarean birth. 📅7 May 2026, 2pm (BST) 🔗 Secure your spot: figo.ooo/risk-reduction-care Language: English with live interpretation in French and Spanish #SRHR
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📢 @rescue.org is hiring a Specialist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (remote) to focus on family planning & comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings. 📅 21 May 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/2565x3bx #genderjobs #IRC
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