Walking the talk – Moving towards a gender-equality-focus in Austrian development cooperation
WIDE-Paper on the experiences from Austrian NGOs and partner organisations in the Global South
This paper is the outcome of five „Community of Practice“ (CoP) online meetings between November 2024 and June 2025 that were organised and facilitated by WIDE. The purpose of the CoP was to share experiences with the implementation of projects and programmes with the principal intention of advancing gender equality and/or the empowerment of women and girls, reducing gender discrimination or inequalities, or meeting gender-specific needs. This means projects and programmes which score „Gender Marker 2“ according to the OECD DAC gender marker system.
The Community of […]
The EU-Chile Trade Agreement, extractivism and human rights
by Patricia Muñoz Cabrera
The EU-Chile Agreement comes at a time of unprecedented environmental damage and social tensions caused by successive waves of resource extraction in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. Already in its 2016 Outlook, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wrote that “Chile’s natural resource-based economic model was starting to show its limits.”
In this paper, presented at a WIDE+ workshop in May 2024 in Paris and later on at the IAFFE Annual Conference 2024 in Rome, Patricia Muñoz Cabrera critically assesses the incorporation of gender […]
Survival amidst Gold Mining and Conflict
A Report from Sudan
by Sara Omer Hamad Mohamed
Sudan is the third-largest gold producer in Africa. However, a big portion of the gold production is believed to be smuggled out of the country, with proceeds often used to fund the ongoing internal conflict. The illegitimate gold trade has also helped establish a relationship between the Sudanese RSF militia and the Russian Wagner Group, with Sudanese gold serving as a funding source for Russian interests, including the war in Ukraine.
The economic and political situation in addition to climate change intensifies the existing challenges faced by women involved in artisanal gold mining in […]
