In a context of shrinking ODA budgets and increasingly well-funded, coordinated and transnational anti-gender movements, how can foreign aid donors improve due diligence processes and reduce the risk of inadvertently funding actors undermining gender equality?

Against the backdrop of increasingly professionalised anti-gender actors, this new tool has been developed to support ODA donors, as well as their implementing agencies and partners, in enhancing their due diligence efforts. It aims to equip stakeholders with a clearer understanding of how anti-gender movements operate and to help them recognise early warning signs that may warrant further investigation. The tool offers concrete examples of activities targeting the rights of women and LGBTQI+ individuals, a compilation of anti-gender networks, spaces and funders as mapped out in the literature, and due diligence best practices.

Report by the Overseas Development Institute