Gender and Development Network

📚 New from ALIGN: Gender norms and education

ALIGN’s new guide explores how gender norms shape access to education, learning outcomes and students’ experiences across contexts - and how education systems can help transform harmful norms.

Across eight modules, the guide looks at gender-transformative education, boys and masculinities, early childhood education, and the experiences of LGBTQI+ students. It includes practical entry points for action across policy, schools, teaching, curricula and community engagement.

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ALIGN Guide: Gender norms and education | Align Platform A kindergarten with children and teacher reading a story © PeopleImages | Shutterstock ID: 2472680051 ALIGN guide 8 September 2026 ALIGN Guide: Gender norms and education Author: Rachel Marcus, Evie Browne, Ján Michalko Published by: ALIGN Education has enormous potential to catalyse gender equali...

🌍 New from IWDA: Gender and Climate Justice: why the climate crisis demands systemic change

The climate crisis does not affect everyone equally. This new piece explores how existing systems shape who is most exposed to climate harm and who has the power to respond.

IWDA makes the case for feminist climate justice: moving beyond helping women cope with climate impacts, towards changing the conditions that make those impacts unequal in the first place. That means transforming who holds power, where resources go, whose knowledge counts, and what our policies and economies are designed to prioritise.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/55jf6npa

📣 Upcoming feminist learning series

Across three afternoons in September, join six online sessions exploring feminist knowledge, evidence and accountability, digital safety, organising under pressure, and what collective feminist practice can make possible.

16 September:
- 1:30-2:40pm BST: Who Gets to Define Feminist Knowledge?
- 2:50-4:00pm BST: Evidence, Accountability & Power

Register for both sessions: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JZveoJSwQxm7WVCLqaemqQ #/registration

23 September
- 11:00-12:10pm BST: Who Defines Harm Online? Feminist perspectives on TFGBV, image-based abuse and digital safety

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2X_im0SaQXaLdWHekSmmEA #/registration

- 2:00-3:10pm BST: Feminist Organising Under Pressure: What Are We Learning? — in collaboration with Shape of Light

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/33MJdB_GSdmiRB3gyc7pZw #/registration

30 September
- 1:30-2:40pm BST: What Would We Do Differently? Reimagining feminist practice and influence
- 2:50-4:00pm BST: What Do We Build Together? From Learning to Collective Possibility

Register for both sessions: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Mqq4UFMOSWOjkyfa6yQJnQ #/registration

🌊 Upcoming event from The WONDER Foundation - Ripple Effects: How Mentoring and Vocational Training Change Young Women’s Futures in Uganda.

This event will explore how mentoring and vocational training can support young women to access education, build skills and strengthen their pathways towards decent work and future opportunities in Uganda.

🔗 Find out more and register: https://tinyurl.com/636jjpfs

📄 New from Save the Children UK and Debt Justice UK: Now is the Time to Act: Six Reforms for the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments.

The report sets out six practical reforms to the G20’s main mechanism for restructuring unsustainable sovereign debt. It argues that the Common Framework has failed to provide timely and adequate debt relief, leaving countries facing prolonged negotiations and uncertainty.

The recommendations aim to make debt restructuring faster, fairer and more effective, with action needed from G20 governments, including the UK, as well as the IMF and World Bank.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/

Safe women, safer societies.

Women in all their diversity are organising, leading and building safer communities - yet violence against women and girls continues to restrict their freedom, participation and rights.

In this piece, Womankind Worldwide reflects on why women’s safety must be understood as a foundation for more equal, democratic and peaceful societies, and why sustained funding and support for women’s rights organisations and feminist movements is essential.

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Safe women, safer societies - Womankind Worldwide Globally, women in all their diversity are organising, resisting, and leading in the face of regression, adversity, shrinking funding and the blatant disregard for human rights bordering against polycrises. The women’s movement remains resilient as it has before – adapting strategies and remaini...

Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels.

New blog from Women for Women International outlines how more than 32 million new internal displacements linked to conflict and violence were recorded in 2025.
The article highlights the gendered realities behind these figures: displacement cuts women off from income, healthcare, education and support networks, while increasing risks of gender-based violence, exploitation and early marriage. Women also take on greater caring responsibilities as they try to rebuild amid ongoing insecurity.

It makes a clear case for long-term support shaped by women’s priorities, including economic empowerment, skills training and comprehensive health services – not emergency relief alone

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Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels | Women For Women Our Blog breadcrumb navigation: Home / Blog / current page Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels You are here: Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels Published on Jun 17, 2026 Updated: Jul 27, 2026 Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels Internal displacement due to violent conflict has officially e...

🌾 New from APWLD: A Harvest of Hope: Grassroots Women Fight Back and Reclaim Food Systems.

This regional report explores how rural and Indigenous women across Asia and the Pacific are resisting corporate capture, land and resource grabbing, debt, militarism and climate injustice – while building feminist alternatives rooted in agroecology, collective organising and community control over land, seeds and food systems.

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A Harvest of Hope: Reclaiming Food Systems and Building Feminist Alternatives When the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) were introduced as part of post-World War II reconstruction and relief efforts, food and agriculture at the hands of the rural communities became collateral to so-called economic development. SAPs, managed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and fi...

The 2nd video in Eurodad - the European Network on Debt and Development’s series follows the women of Oriang, who are mobilising against policies that prioritise debt repayment over protecting Filipinos from climate change.

The film exposes how rising debt servicing costs are squeezing public budgets at the same time as communities face typhoons, floods and sea-level rise. It highlights how these overlapping crises have gendered impacts, with women often bearing the costs of recovery when public resources fall short.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/4r7xkvca

📊 New from ActionAid UK: Violence against women: the statistics around the world

This new resource brings together statistics on violence against women and girls, highlighting the scale of the crisis globally and in England and Wales, where police-recorded offences increased by 37% between 2018 and 2023.

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mtrhmmjc