‘It’s very refreshing to join an IWD day event about sharing learning, and the work throughout the year (and years), and how we can work together across borders in ways that have actually been impactful. Thank you for sharing!’
IWD 2024 Participant
We celebrated International Women’s Day this year by hearing from three African women. We invited Dr Stella Nyanzi, Dr Atuki Turner and Godess Bvukutwa to share about their work as grassroots women leaders of civil society organisations and movements working to tackle gendered injustice. The session quickly became about the power of storytelling, the power of poetry as resistance, and the role that narratives play in shaping our lived experiences.
We are grateful to all three expert panelists for their generous contributions, to SWIDN trustee Janet Whitelaw-Jones for hosting the session, and to our participants who attended.
Learning from Others: the SWIDN Annual Conference 2025
5 November 2025
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the SWIDN Annual Conference 2025 in October. It was an inspiring and deeply reflective day of listening, learning and connecting across the South West and beyond. Together, we explored how our sector can confront historical inequities and move towards more just, anti-colonial, and equitable ways of working.…
That Swedish ‘Fika’ Feeling (or Tackling the big Questions Together)
18 September 2025
I’ve never been to Sweden before. From dashing out the door at 5am for the coach to Heathrow, to arriving back in the early hours of the morning 3 days later, it was a dizzying, inspiring, exhausting, and quite honestly life-changing experience. Dare I say it, my trip to Sweden last week was reparative. In…
Theory of Cause, anyone?
28 July 2025
In June, SWIDN were delighted to host a discussion event with a few of our organisational and academic members at the Development Studies Association Conference at the University of Bath, hosted by the Centre for Development Studies. The topic was whether it’s possible to decolonise development and move practice into something reparative. If reparative development…
