The Gender and Trade Coalition was initiated in 2018 by feminist and progressive activists to put forward feminist trade analysis and advocate for equitable trade policy. The 13 current Steering Group members are: African Women’s Development and Communications Network; Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development; Association of Women’s Rights in Development; ActionAid; Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era; Latin America Gender and Trade Network; Nawi–Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective; Pacific Network on Globalisation; Regions Refocus; Third World Network; Third World Network–Africa; Women In Development Europe+; and Women in Migration Network. The 3 elected Co-chairs are African Women’s Development and Communications Network, Latin America Gender and Trade Network, and Regions Refocus, which also serves as the Secretariat.
This agenda is based on the policy proposals put forward in the ‘explainer’ series by Regions Refocus, produced for the Gender and Trade Coalition. The explainer series featured short, Q&A format articles which each unpack key feminist trade issues– including gender, post-conflict recovery, migration, and climate– and end with five strategic policy proposals. The explainers are the result of collaborative writing processes, as each one was produced by Regions Refocus in collaboration with different Coalition members.
A complete list of authors for the explainers and their proposals includes Erica Levenson, Anita Nayar, Mariama Williams, Ranja Sengupta, Fatimah Kelleher, Maureen Penjueli, Adam Wolfenden, Carol Barton, Hien Nguyen Thi, Nela Porobić, Catherine Tactaquin, and Senani Dehigolla. The various proposals were compiled and expanded, and a Foreword added, by Erica Levenson for review and addition by the broader Coalition.
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