About Our Members

Our members are the core of the Gender and Development Network, and encompass a range of individuals and organisations working on and interested in gender and women’s rights in development including: women’s rights organisations, activists, national and international NGOs, students, academics and companies.

Membership of the GAD Network offer a unique opportunity to join a community of local, national and international actors working on development, stay in touch with the latest news, join our lobbying and advocacy projects, get support in mainstreaming gender into the work of your organisations and have access to events and meetings. To see more about what the GAD Network can offer you or your organisation, click here.

Current organisational members of the GADN include:

• ActionAid
• Amnesty International
• BRIDGE/IDS
• CAFOD
• CARE International
• CAWN
• ChildHope
• Christian Aid
• Development Planning Unit 
• EveryChild
• FORWARD
• Interact Worldwide
• International Rescue Committee
• Minority Rights Group International
• NFWI
• Orchid Project
• Oxfam
• PANOS
• Plan
• Save the Children
• Social Development Direct
• Tearfund
• UN Women UK
• VSO
• WaterAid 
• WILPF
• WISE Development
• Womankind Worldwide
• Women for Women International  

 We also work closely with the following networks: 

• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA)
• Bretton Woods Project (BWP)
• Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK)
• National Alliance of Women's Organisations (NAWO)
• Population and Sustainability Nework (PSN)
• Trade Justice Movement (TJM)
• Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
• Women's Resource Centre (WRC)

In addition, we have a large group of individual members including academics and consultants.

Goodbye to One World Action

GADN member organisation One World Action sadly closed on 31 October 2011. One World Action was a key member of GADN for many years. OWA's publications from the last 10 years can be found on GADN's webpages - on Working Group pages and on Other Publications.

Some of OWA's highlights can be found in the following reports:

Annual Report 2010 - One World Action, 2010

One World Action is 21 - One World Action, 2010

Read about One World Action's 100 Unseen Powerful Women campaign here