GAD Network Resources
The GAD Network research on New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations is now available in Spanish. You can download it here >>
The Gender and Diversity Resources Kit (April 2005) is now available for download >>
This page provides a list of GADN consultancies, research and
publications - as well as those of its member organisations. To
view a document, simply click on the link provided. If you would
like your work to be listed on our resource pages please contact
the GAD Network Officer gadnetwork@womankind.org.uk
The GAD Network itself produces cutting-edge analysis, research
and reporting on a range of gender and development issues as identified
by its members. These highly regarded reports provide useful advocacy
and research tools for member organisations and broader audiences.
In addition, research commissioned by the network provides a focus
for GADN advocacy activities and provides the expertise and resources
for gender professionals to lobby within their own organisations.
Annual Report
 The 2007-2008 Annual Report from the GAD Network
Monthly Information Round-ups
GAD Network Newsletter Mid-Month October 2008
GAD Network Newsletter October 2008
GAD Network Newsletter September 2008
GAD Network Newsletter August 2008
GAD Network Newsletter Mid July 2008
GAD Network Newsletter July 2008
GAD Network Newsletter June 2008
GAD Network Newsletter May 2008
GAD Network Newsletter April 2008
GAD Network Newsletter March 2008
GAD Network Newsletter February 2008
GAD Network Newsletter January 2008
GAD Network Newsletter December 2007
GAD Network Newsletter November 2007
GAD Network Newsletter September 2007
GAD Network Newsletter June-July 2007
GAD Network Newsletter May 2007
GAD Network Newsletter April 2007
GAD Network Newsletter March 2007
GAD Network Newsletter February 2007
Recent publications
Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment
and Civil Society Organisations
The report ‘Gender Equality, the new aid environment and CSOs’ was researched and written by the Gender & Development Network (GADN) because of a growing concern about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment and their possible implications for work on gender equality and women’s rights issues, in the Global North and South.
In many countries CSOs play a crucial role in working towards gender equality and women’s rights through representing, supporting and defending vulnerable groups of women; keeping gender equality and women’s rights issues on policymakers’ agendas; fighting for women’s rights at a legislative level; and holding governments and other stakeholders to account over their implementation of gender-related commitments. Understanding how they are faring under the new aid mechanisms becomes critical in understanding whether current funding is supporting or inhibiting the commitment to gender equality and women’s rights present in so many policies.
The report highlights some of the key questions emerging for civil society around the way the new aid systems promote, marginalise or exclude gender equality and women’s rights issues, as well as developing themes for future targeted research. The report reflects the voices of organisations working for gender equality and women’s rights from around the world. It conveys the diversity and complexity of the issues around the new aid modalities and how these differ across countries and continents; it also shows some of the unintended consequences of new aid modalities. Above all, it reveals that many women’s organisations and those focused on challenging gender inequality feel threatened as the focus of funding moves in the direction of larger grants, tighter, short term targets, demonstrable and ‘scaled up’ results, and intensive administration.
Download the full report >>
2. Gender and Diversity Resources Kit (April 2005)
This CD-Rom publication is the outcome of a two-phase GAD Network
research project carried out between January 2004 and March 2005.
The project was developed in response to interest among GAD Network
members in learning more about the emphasis on ‘diversity’
across UK development organisations and its possible implications
for gender mainstreaming.
The first phase involved the preparation of a Think Piece on gender
and diversity, completed in June 2004 and presented at a GAD Network
seminar, hosted by Action Aid in July 2004. The Think Piece focused
primarily on: (i) clarifying how the concept diversity is being
used by UK-based international development organisations; and (ii)
identifying the institutional arrangements that are being put in
place to promote and support diversity within these organisations.
The aim of the second phase of research was to investigate in
greater detail the practical approaches and methodologies being
developed for working on diversity issues in rights-based programming.
This took the form of a series of six case studies. Five are drawn
from organisations/networks that represent a specific community
(children, older people, ethnic minority communities, disabled people,
single parents). The sixth is from a large international development
organisation working with the poor to eradicate poverty. One of
the case studies focuses on work with marginalised communities in
the UK context. The phase two report presents the six case studies,
along with an overview summarising some of the approaches being
used to address issues of diversity. As part of the second phase,
an effort was made to compile resources on gender and diversity
issues. While there are links to many useful sites and downloads,
some of the practical guidelines and tools are also included for
reference on this CD-ROM.
We would like to thank Action Aid, Christian Aid and DfID for
co-funding this project.
3. Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights
in the context of the 2005 review processes (October 2004)
This paper offers a way to think about the opportunities offered
by the coinciding reviews of Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA)
and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) in 2005 and outlines an advocacy agenda for participation
in the reviews at an international level.
This paper argues that achievement of the MDGs is both an indication
of and a necessity for the realization of human rights, because
the MDGs correspond to states’ existing human rights obligations
found in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Setting the MDGs back within a human
rights framework provides analytical and practical tools towards
challenging the prevailing
neo-liberal, economic growth-driven model of development.
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publication (314KB)
A shorter, more practical lobbying paper of this report with recommendations
based on concrete examples of successful lobbying by GADN partners
and colleagues is also available.
Download
shorter version (149KB)
This GADN project was made possible through the support of the
UK Department for International Development.
This paper is also part of OXFAM GB Gender and Development journal
Vol 13 (1). For more information contact Kanika Lang at klang@oxfam.org.uk
or visit http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/gad
For further information or a bound copy of the synthesis report
please contact Gadnetwork@womankind.org.uk
4. Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers.
This report by GADN consultant Dr Ann Whitehead analyses gender
in the PRSP processes of Bolivia, Yemen and Tanzania. The report
draws on these case studies, interviews and a range of primary and
secondary sources to identify shortfalls, successes, obstacles and
areas for improvement with regard to gender in PRSP processes. The
GAD Network is grateful to Christian Aid for their support and funding
of this impressive publication.
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Strategy Papers (158KB)
5. Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in the Policy and Practice
of the UK Department for International Development: A brief from
the UK Gender and Development Network (May 2003).
This report by GAD Network consultant, Mandy Macdonald, analyses
DfID’s progress on gender mainstreaming and the implementation
of its commitments under CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action
and the Millenium Development Goals. Report by Mandy MacDonald,
independent consultant.During the consultancy process, it emerged
that many of the reports’ recommendations could be applied
equally to GADN member organisations. Advocacy and capacity building
work is planned for the coming year to addresssome of these key
issues in partnership with DfID.
This report has been coordinated and co-funded by VSO, WOMANKIND
Worldwide, Save the Children, Christian Aid, OXFAM and One World
Action. Many thanks to each of these organisations for all their
active interest and support.
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briefing (108KB)
For further information or a bound copy of either report please
contact gadnetwork@womankind.org.uk
Previous GADN publications
Previous GADN publications and consultancies are listed below,
as are members’ own reports, research and thematic packs.
To view a report, please click on the links provided:
How to Challenge a Colossus: Engaging with the World Bank
and the IMF
http://www.womankind.org.uk/documents/IntFinInstGAD.pdf
(February 2001 Geraldine Terry)
Final Report: Beijing Plus Five Project: (January 2001)
Download report
(68 KB)
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