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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS! G&D:
The Post-2015 Development Agenda
The March 2016 issue of the international journal
Gender & Development will focus on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda, from a gender equality and women’s rights perspective.
G&D is published for Oxfam by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and is essential
reading for international development researchers, policymakers, and
practitioners. G&D is currently read in over 90 countries. It is
published as an online/print journal at www.tandfonline.com/gad. Content is also available free – for more information, visit www.genderanddevelopment.org
The Post-2015 issue of G&D
is timed to offer a ‘first-cut’ gender analysis of the Post-2015
Development Agenda, in the immediate aftermath of completion. The Post-2015
Agenda, to be adopted in September 2015, will replace the UN’s Millennium
Development Goals as the key global framework against which to gauge progress
to a world of justice, peace and prosperity for all. The issue will include
views and analyses from key gender and development and women’s rights activists
and thinkers, assessing the wins and challenges of the Agenda, in terms of the
final Goals and targets and framework for implementation. The discussion
will take into account the context of increasing gap between rich and poor,
both within and between countries and regions, and the need to focus on the
economic and social situation of women.
In addition to assessing
the content of the overall framework, the Post-2105 issue will also focus on
the process behind its design and agreement. Advocates for gender equality will
offer insights into the strategies adopted by the global and regional women’s movements
in coalition with strategic partners in key development and government
institutions and fora, such as the Financing for Development conference in
Addis Ababa. They will also look forward to the challenges of implementing the
Post-2015 Framework, in light of insights and experience from women’s movements
in the global South, who have first-hand experience of advocacy towards MDG
implementation. Finally, they will relate the Post-2015 Agenda to other key
global initiatives including the Hyogo Framework for Action on sustainable
development.
This issue hopes to
explore these and other issues, to inform and empower the work of development
and humanitarian practitioners and policymakers supporting gender justice and
women’s rights.
G&D has an editorial policy of publishing in
clear, jargon-free English, in order to be of use to the widest possible
readership of policymakers, practitioners, researchers and activists. Articles
should be of around 5,000 to 6,000 words maximum. Guidelines for contributors can
be found at www.genderanddevelopment.org
Please
send a paragraph outlining your proposed idea for an article for this issue, in
an email (no attachments please) to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk
as
soon as possible and by 15 March 2015.
This
issue will be commissioned for a deadline of 31 March 2015. Commissioned
articles will need to be completed for a deadline of 1 November 2015.