Global Development Policy

Applications are due by November 5, 2025. 

The Trump Administration’s new budget law is a back door to implementing major portions of the MAGA agenda. It could become one of the most destructive, anti-climate, anti-poor, and anti-working class pieces of legislation in US history and risks the country’s long-term economic stability.

As global development finance falters, the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville offers a chance to rethink the system. It’s time to move beyond donor fixes and center justice, local agency, and structural reform.

In March 2025, the world marked the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action during the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Halyna Kotliuk and Anna Antonina Lysiak provide an analytical reflection on the key themes discussed in New York — from women’s political participation and rising transnational conservatism to gender-based violence, child marriage, and the exclusion of demining from gender policies. Ukraine’s voice was heard internationally, showcasing both progress and challenges in the context of war.

We are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2025!

Eleven outstanding feminists from around the world, who where selected as 2025 Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellows, participated in the 69th Commission on the Status of Women at the UN Headquarters. Here they share their main considerations.

The rise of the far-right movement and recent shifts in global politics have led to significant cuts in foreign development assistance. What are the impacts on feminist and civil society organizations?

2024 Transatlantic Media Fellow Daniel Plafker's reporting receives international attention

From climate justice at COP29 to the future of the transatlantic relationship under a new president, our 2024 answered questions, raised new ones, and even included a visit from Luisa Neubauer and Helena Marschall. Dive into a whirlwind year!

Because of an overwhelming response we had to close the call for applications early. Thank you for your understanding.

Digital policy is now a global priority, like security and climate change. The 2024 UN Summit of the Future brings the Global Majority into internet and AI governance. The UN Convention on Cybercrime may do the same for cybersecurity. But centralization at the UN may undermine human rights.

As preparations for the UN Summit of the Future are in full swing, this year's ECOSOC Youth Forum underlined the limited impact of Youth on substantive decisions and why Standards for Meaningful Youth Engagement are still urgently needed.

We are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2024!

We looked back at our work in 2023. Highlights include: four new team members, German Green Party co-chair Ricarda Lang's visit, 2022's labor and environmental Grow the Future cohort, and updated info for Climate Funds Update. But that's just a small taste! 

We are excited to announce our Feminist Foreign & Development Policy Fellowships for 2024, with a focus on the CSW!

We are accepting applications for the From Growth to Well Being Think Fund until July 31st, 2023.

In 2022, our internship program started again, study tours traveled once more, and we deepened our work in every program area - alongside so much more!

Before the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal, Member of the German Bundestag Jan-Niclas Gesenhues answered questions about the interconnection of the climate and biodiversity crisis, economic models that consider  well being, and more sustainable consumption.

At the Feminist Development Policy Conference in Berlin, the German government showed progress toward a feminist engagement with international partners.

Emilia Reyes is an international advocate for women's rights and an expert on gender-responsive public policies and budgets and sustainable development, including comprehensive disaster risk management and climate change. She highlights the necessity of degrowth and the problems of our global neoliberal system.