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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

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The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

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Re-imagining development by (re)claiming feminist visions of development alternatives

18/03/2020

18 pages long

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Re-imagining development by (re)claiming feminist visions of development alternatives

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Over the past 30 years, new frameworks and procedures have influenced the language of development, as well as the understanding of what ‘good development’ and success look like. While feminist concepts have been incorporated into some of these approaches, the core challenges of patriarchy, race, as well as class and gender inequalities are not centre […]

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

18/03/2020

17 pages long

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

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‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such […]

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Making the case for a transformed development ecosystem: a feminist reflection on the experience of RootsLab in Lebanon

18/03/2020

14 pages long

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Making the case for a transformed development ecosystem: a feminist reflection on the experience of RootsLab in Lebanon

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This article draws on our experience of implementing RootsLab, a feminist programme piloted in Lebanon by Oxfam, Global Fund for Women, FRIDA|Young Feminist Fund, and Young Foundation. It works with young grassroots activists, supporting feminist movement building. Here, we reflect critically on RootsLab, and its place and role in the wider development system. RootsLab offers […]

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Decolonising emotional well-being and mental health in development: African feminist innovations

18/03/2020

13 pages long

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Decolonising emotional well-being and mental health in development: African feminist innovations

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This article explores what a decolonial approach to emotional well-being and mental health looks like in development and humanitarian response, using the example of African feminist praxis around the emotional wellbeing and mental health of African women impacted by injustice, and the practitioners that work in solidarity with them. It draws on the experiences of […]

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Disrupting and democratising development: community philanthropy as theory and practice

18/03/2020

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Disrupting and democratising development: community philanthropy as theory and practice

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Systems of community giving and self-help have always existed within different cultures and traditions around the world. But it is only recently that community philanthropy has started to gain visibility as a specific practice that has relevance to the broader field of international development. In this article, we focus on what community philanthropy looks like […]

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Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

18/03/2020

16 pages long

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Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

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Feminists can organise! But what happens when informal collectives and movements face pressures to formalise and become non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? This is a common dilemma faced by feminists and other social justice activists as their organisations grow and they seek to extend and expand their impact, often seeking outside funding. As activists become professionalised ‘employees’ […]

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Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

18/03/2020

18 pages long

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Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

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Equity in development is most often used to describe something the global North does to or in the global South, rather than as a concept that applies between the North and South. Neither does it take into consideration the issue of creating systems that foster equity between the North and the South, within the context […]

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Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

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Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

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A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

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Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

18/03/2020

17 pages long

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Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

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Unequal power relations exist between the global North and the global South, between those in need of ‘development’ and the development policymakers and practitioners who work with them in projects and programmes intending to meet their needs – and, less often, support those in need to challenge the underlying inequalities that create these inequities. These […]

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