‘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.
This week in celebration of Earth Day, we heard from researchers across the South West whose work contributes towards knowledge and practice to tackle the climate crisis. This session was very kindly chaired by Dr Hannah Peck from SWIDN member Cool Earth, a Cornwall-based organisation working to protect rainforests and address social and climate injustice…
Locally-Led Development: SWIDN’s Plans for 2024
21 February 2024
This year, SWIDN will be focusing some of our events and our annual conference on the theme of ‘locally-led develoment’. This is partly a result of the focus on this in last November’s White Paper on International Development from the UK Government, partly from what we’re hearing from the Opposition in relation to their values…
Campaigning in the General Election – What Do SWIDN Members Need to Know?
2 February 2024
Many of us have kicked off 2024 with a sense of political anticipation. With politics usually so unpredictable, we do know that there will be a General Election in the next 12 months, with the latest possible date being 25 January 2025. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (PPERA) Act 2000 considers the 12 months…
