THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Our March 2020 issue will focus on Re-imagining Development. See our Call for Contributions here. International development is under fire. In 2019, in a post #AidToo world where patriarchal power and privilege are being called out by feminists and anti-racists in humanitarian response and development interventions, can international development rise to the profound critiques of it …

Watch the panel event focusing on Young Feminisms that launched our issue of the same name. Hear from some amazing young feminists about activism, leadership and funding, and how international development should learn from them in light of the rising right, inequalities and threats to rights at this time of #metoo and #aidtoo, Panelists: Nasra Ayub, Bristol Student Union and Integrate UK,  Isabel …

Featuring: Catherine Nyambura, FEMNET Esther Moraes and Vinita Sahasranaman, The YP Foundation Gopika Bashi, Lucia Martelotte, Boikanyo Modungwa, Euge Olmos, FRIDA/Young Feminist Fund Nicci Morgan, Programme Adviser – Youth, Gender & Active Citizenship, Oxfam and introduced by Caroline Sweetman, Editor of Gender & Development  

Happy holidays to all! Calling all feminists working inside and outside international development and humanitarian work. We’re looking for five future themes for issues from July 2020 – July 2021. This is the first time we’ve gone public online with this ask. See a full list of all the themes we’ve ever covered here. (Meanwhile here in the G&D office, our …

Imogen Davies and Caroline Sweetman, editors of our new issue on Young Feminisms, write: Today, 24.6 per cent of the world’s population is aged between 10 and 24. Almost nine out of ten live in less-developed countries. In many countries, youth populations make up over half or even two-thirds of their total: 56 per cent of the population in Guatemala is …

THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED Our November 2019 issue will focus on Feminist Values in Research. See our Call for Contributions here! Research needs to be rooted in the experience, needs, and interests of the whole of humanity. But down the centuries, educated elites have shaped and dominated research and defined knowledge and learning. Increasingly, international development is acknowledging the …

We’re delighted to announce a London panel event – Feminists doing digital – to launch our ICTs issue, on Thursday 15 November 2018, hosted by the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. It’s at 5pm  for a 5.30pm start, ending at 7pm, UK time. Register to attend in person at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, London WC1H 0XG. We’ll also …

We’re delighted to announce G&D’s co-sponsoring a panel event hosted by Anne Marie Goetz of New York University’s SPS Center for Global Affairs, 6.30-7.45pm, Monday 24th September. We’ll be talking about the unfinished and new business in the women’s rights agenda that exists nearly 25 years after Beijing, amid democratic reversals of recent years that have included attacks on women’s rights, …

By 2020, almost three quarters of the world’s population – or 5.7 billion people – will subscribe to mobile services. The number of people using the Internet is also rising exponentially. What is this doing to us, and to the world we live in? The new issue of Gender & Development focuses on ICTs from the perspective of women’s rights and gender justice. …

Photo credit: Refugee camps in Kenya – IHH Humanitarian Relief THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED Our July 2019 issue will focus on Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response. It’ll be a jointly-edited issue with UN-Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office. Gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to a rights-based, effective and efficient humanitarian action that bridges the humanitarian-development-peace divide. …