Gender & Development Network

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📢 Join @CherieBlairFndn as their Senior Programme Funding Manager Great opportunity for a relationship-builder and strong writer to grow income from corporates & foundations and turn donor interest into long-term commitment. 🗓 6 Feb 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc6t2v9r

📢 Join @careintuk as their Programme Development Senior Manager (Maternity Cover) CARE International UK is seeking an experienced funding specialist to lead major bids (£20m+) and FCDO/commercial proposals. 🗓 25 January 🔗 tinyurl.com/ukvb8trm

📣 Job opportunity: Director of External Engagement @adduk is recruiting a Director of External Engagement to lead their fundraising, communications, and influencing work at a pivotal moment in their organisational journey. 🗓 21 January 🔗tinyurl.com/24bswjrn

📄New resources from APWLD unpack how militarism, arms proliferation, and global power structures continue to endanger lives across Asia & the Pacific - especially women and marginalised communities. 🔗tinyurl.com/bp6pzxfz 🔗tinyurl.com/yp669c2k

Israel has blocked 37 humanitarian organisations from the Gaza Strip & West Bank. This is another genocidal act from Israel, making Gaza even less liveable for Palestinians: 1/3 of hospitals will close & food distribution will halt. We join 53 NGOs calling on the UK to act⬇️

Oxfam’s Policy Lead in Palestine, Bushra, tells @AJEnglish that plans to deregister NGOs in Gaza would further harm Palestinians amid an already acute humanitarian crisis. This is a red line. Join the #RedLineForGaza ➡️bit.ly/48wa51l

🌏 Marking #HumanRightsDay2025, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women launched a new ARROW for Change issue: ‘Resisting Anti-Rights: Building Inclusive Movements Beyond 2030’. 📖Read it here: tinyurl.com/2s3unbwn #SRHR #FeministMovements

📣Last chance to apply! Join GADN as our Director (Job Share - Funding, Finance & Governance). We are seeking a values-led leader to help steer the network’s funding, finances, governance, strategy & operations. 📅7 January Apply here 👇 tinyurl.com/4e8vrb3x #GenderJobs

📣We’re hiring! Join GADN as our Director (Job Share - Funding, Finance & Governance). We are seeking a values-led leader to help steer the network’s funding, finances governance, strategy & operations. 📅7 January Apply here 👇 tinyurl.com/4e8vrb3x #GenderJobs

📢 Consultancy opportunity: SRHR financing mechanisms @PlanUK is seeking a consultant to analyse SRHR financing models and the UK Government’s current and future engagement - using a feminist, anti-racist & decolonial lens. 🗓 4 Jan 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdcraw7y #SRHR

🌍 MenaFem has released 4 new feminist reflections on #COP30, offering sharp, grounded analyses of climate negotiations and their wider implications - from forests and finance to resistance and Global South solidarity. 🔗tinyurl.com/3nstt45s

Progress for women and girls wasn’t accidental - it was built over decades by people fighting for fairness, safety and opportunity. The UK helped support that progress but in 2025 it’s buffering: funding cuts, rights rolling back, violence rising. We must #ProtectProgress.

This year @RESURJ turns 15! Amid repression, shrinking civic space and backlash on SRR, Global South feminists have kept organising, resisting and imagining justice. To mark the moment, RESURJ is launching Voicenotes from the South. Find out more👇 tinyurl.com/yj6xzat7

Following a year where the official development assistance budget was cut once again, there are so many questions the UK government still need to answer to get their vision for international development and humanitarian assistance back on track. buff.ly/YdLQury

📄 New brief from the Red Line for Gaza coalition examines how women and girls are being affected in Gaza and how Palestinian women are leading their own response after the ceasefire. 👉 tinyurl.com/yz4ap9cw

📘 New from @PlanGlobal: Real Choices, Real Lives: Girls’ Everyday Resistance Drawing on 18 years of longitudinal research across nine countries, the report shows how girls navigate and challenge restrictive gender norms in daily life. 👉 tinyurl.com/2upemtfc

Last chance to apply! 📢 @ActionAid UK is hiring a Senior Resilience & Climate Adviser to help drive climate justice within the Women, Peace & Security team - shaping programmes, research, policy, and anticipatory action. 🗓 9 Dec 👉 tinyurl.com/4hmy24r

💼 Job opportunity: Social Development Direct is recruiting a Managing Director to lead the next phase of its work on gender equality and social inclusion. 🗓 Deadline: 16 Dec 👉 tinyurl.com/3sx869fs #GenderEquality

📣Justice for survivors of GBV must go beyond legal outcomes. New report from @TheCircleNGO, Awer Women’s Empowerment, Our Sisters’ Opportunity and Women’s Centre Sri Lanka shares justice priorities from 160 survivors in Kenya, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. 👉 tinyurl.com/bdcv4k9f