Gender Associations is proud to have supported committed government actors in exploring the differences that feminist principles really can make in the area of foreign policy.
Feminist foreign policies question traditional understanding of state security and rather call for a people-centred approach to security and peace, demanding true transformation. What sounds revolutionary in principle builds on decades of efforts to understand how foreign policy can best promote and ensure equality, justice and a more inclusive and sustainable peace.
We at Gender Associations have worked with over a dozen different State actors on how to anchor feminist foreign policy principles in human resource processes and project funding, implementation monitoring and evaluation. We provide praxis-oriented analysis, tailor-made trainings for high-level diplomats and concrete strategies on how revolutionary and transformative ideas on gender equality can be put into practice and have a real effect through a country’s foreign policy.
Our work in this area includes not only trainings, but the development of concrete guidance for regional and international organisations. We are currently reviewing the most gender-transformative projects of different development agencies.
We believe that feminist foreign policy and gender equality should not only be principles in theory, but tangible goals in reach.
