Publications
June 2026
FFP Accountability Midpoint Report — First Annual Accountability Cycle: 2025-2026
This midpoint progress report, published by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative (the Collaborative), is the first public-facing output of FFP Accountability, the first public accountability tool measuring progress on commitments made by states and multilateral institutions at the Ministerial Conferences on Feminist Foreign Policy. The first cycle of FFP Accountability tracks commitments made at the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies, hosted by the Government of France on on October 22 and 23, 2025. The initial design and cycle of FFP Accountability was supported by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Government of France.
Available in English, French and Spanish
October 2025
Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025
This fourth biennial report by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative charts the turbulent trajectory of FFP as it enters its second decade: tracking progress, documenting backlash and surfacing strategies for resilience. This report captures not only where FFP stands in 2025, but where it must go next if it is to remain a credible, transformative force for peace, equality and planetary sustainability.. We offer a global summary of trends in FFP including a timeline of commitments and a description of regional and multilateral activities. The backbone of this report is the 14 country profiles that describe the progress — or regression — of FFP actions in the past two years. Each country’s progress is assessed using the five core dimensions outlined in our guiding document, “Feminist Foreign Policy: A Framework” (hereafter Framework). These include Rights, Resources, Representation, Research and Reporting, and Reach. We also highlight profiles of seven countries to watch, which have not adopted a feminist approach to date but are expressing increasing interest and/or leadership in this agenda.
Available in English, French and Spanish
April 2026
Financing for Gender Equality at Upcoming International Conferences: Exploring Options — Preliminary Report
For the rest of 2026 there are multiple international moments when gender equality resourcing will be discussed. These gatherings provide opportunities for states to stand in support of gender justice and counter the global backlash and anti-rights actors. The goal of this note is not to revisit the multiple recommendations being advanced by feminist advocates. Rather, it aims to set out concrete foreign policy financing commitments that can be made by states in the short term to build momentum on gender equality financing, as well as more transformational initiatives. There are commitments that all states can make, not just those providing official development assistance (ODA).
October 2025
Feminist Foreign Policy and Development Finance for Gender Equality: Momentum Under Threat? An Update of the 2022 “Assessment of Commitments” Report
The current state of global resourcing for gender equality is marked by persistent and urgent alarm. In particular, there are grave concerns about the future of women’s rights organizations, feminist movements in the Global South and Global East, and United Nations (UN) entities mandated to advance gender equality.
This report updates the 2022 analysis of official development assistance (ODA) commitments by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries with feminist foreign policies (FFPs) and feminist development policies (FDPs), highlighting changes based on the most recent data available (through 2023) from the OECD Creditor Reporting System (CRS). It finds that, on average, FFP and FDP countries provide more gender equality-focused ODA, including support to women’s rights organizations and initiatives aimed at ending violence against women and girls (VAWG), than the overall average of the members of the DAC.
Available in English, French and Spanish
October 2025
Mundializar la igualdad: política exterior feminista desde América Latina
Ante la multiplicación de crisis planetarias, el agravamiento de las desigualdades y la aceleración de lo que ya parece una aritmética del desastre, este libro colectivo propone la política exterior feminista (PEF) como estrategia transformadora para mundializar la igualdad. La PEF se presenta aquí como categoría operativa y praxis política orientada a desmantelar el trípode histórico de opresiones —patriarcado, colonialismo y racismo— que sostiene las desigualdades en América Latina, la región más dispar y violenta para las mujeres. Con voces plurales de diplomáticas, académicas y activistas del Sur Global, el volumen coloca la agenda feminista en el centro de la geopolítica y de las relaciones internacionales, articulando reconocimiento, redistribución e interseccionalidad. Propone reconfigurar la democracia, cimentar la gobernanza de los bienes comunes, despatriarcalizar el poder y avanzar hacia una sociedad del cuidado y la justicia económica, social y ambiental.
Disponible en español.
June 2025
Feminist Foreign Policy and Development Finance for Gender Equality: Momentum Under Threat? An Update of the 2022 “Assessment of Commitments” Report — Preliminary Findings
The current Official Development Assistance (ODA) landscape is marked by uncertainty and pessimism. There is talk of the beginning of a “post-ODA” world. The prospects for feminist foreign policies (FFPs) are also uncertain with some countries abandoning the official label. Yet we are also seeing glimmers of hope with innovative models to fund women’s rights organizations building momentum on FFPs coming from outside of Europe.
In the midst of these new realities, the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative is updating the 2022 report, “Feminist Foreign Policy and Development Finance for Gender Equality: An Assessment of Commitments.”
Available in English
September 2023
Defining Feminist Foreign Policy: The 2023 Edition
The 2023 edition of “Defining Feminist Foreign Policy” provides a global overview of developments in the feminist foreign policy field since the last edition was published in 2021. It reviews the policies and progress of 16 governments: in Europe, these span France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden, in the Americas, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Mongolia in Central Asia, Liberia in West Africa and Libya in the Middle East.
Available in English and French.
A publication of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative with inputs from the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy.
2023Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States: An Agenda for Action
As of September 2023, more than a dozen countries around the world have adopted a feminist foreign policy, including both of the United States’ neighbors and many of its allies. These governments are working together at the United Nations to advance a multilateral agenda on gender equality and human rights, signaling the highest level of ambition for these issues. The absence of the United States in this cohort is increasingly conspicuous, and the remaining months of the Biden-Harris Administration present a clear opportunity to step up global efforts and leadership on this agenda.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication.
2023Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States: A Midterm Review of the Biden-Harris Administration
After two years, the Biden-Harris administration has made substantial progress toward articulating and implementing a more feminist approach to its foreign policy. Read the Coalition’s analysis of the administration’s progress and opportunities in this midterm review.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2022A Scorecard on the Biden-Harris Administration’s First Year
The Biden-Harris administration took office in the wake of a number of reversals of women’s rights, human rights and gender equality efforts by the U.S. government, promising to “build back better.” 2021-2022 has also been a time of global reflection on the status of women and girls around the world. In this context, The Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States has released a scorecard to track U.S. progress toward promoting gender equality at home and abroad.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2021Defining Feminist Foreign Policy: A 2021 Update
In this paper—updated in September 2021—we take a closer look at the world’s existing “feminist” approaches to foreign policy. Since the brief was originally produced in 2019, more nations have announced feminist foreign policies (bringing the total to seven: Sweden, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain and Libya) and feminists advanced an evermore ambitious and intersectional approach.
Available in Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.
A Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2021The Biden-Harris Administration’s First 100 Days: Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy?
The Biden-Harris administration took office in the wake of a number of reversals of women’s rights, human rights and gender equality efforts by the U.S. government, promising to “build back better.” 2021 is also a time of global reflection on the status of women and girls around the world.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2020Feminist Foreign Policy: A Framework
This framework attempts to distill a definition and few core components of feminist foreign policy, drawing from the few examples that exist today, as well as the insights of feminist thinkers, advocates and experts inside and outside of government.
Available in Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.
A Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2020Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States
Attention to gender equality and, to a lesser extent, women’s human rights in American foreign policy has grown and evolved through recent administrations—both Republican and Democratic. This brief describes the definition of feminist foreign policy which guides the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States, and shares concrete recommendations for how the U.S. can advance feminist foreign policy across the government.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
202oA Memo to the Next Administration
The COVID-19 global pandemic, recession and racial justice movements around the United States have reinforced the need to move away from a “business as usual” approach to policymaking. A feminist foreign policy offers a blueprint for the next U.S. Administration to assert leadership in tackling global inequality.
A Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.
2019Defining Feminist Foreign Policy
Published in 2019, this paper represents the first effort to distill a working definition of feminist foreign policy. Based on global consultations and analysis of existing feminist foreign policies, which at the time of its writing was limited to Sweden, Canada and France, this paper sketches out the emerging scope and standards attributed to an explicitly feminist approach to foreign policy. The aim of which was to assist governments in strengthening and sustaining existing feminist foreign policies and to shape the second wave of emerging policies. The definition presented serves as a starting point for debate.
A Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy publication. Originally published with the International Center for Research on Women.