Feminist Foreign Policy in Action

Together with FEPS, we launched the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective (FFPPVC) in 2023. The project and builds on a global multistakeholder feminist foreign policy community and aims to advance policy recommendations for both European and national policymakers. The Collective gathers feminist policy experts on a periodic and ad-hoc basis, depending on current events. With particular attention to gender and intersectional considerations, its mission consists of discussing international politics from a feminist lens and helps to gear the ideas and policy recommendations emerging from this project.

Our objective is to:

• create a clear, shared vision of feminist foreign policy for progressive policymakers by developing a basic framework, sharing best practices and collecting relevant indicators;
• analyse the main challenges when it comes to promoting FFP as a goal of EU external action by reviewing the current practices and culture regarding gender mainstreaming and transformative thinking to overcome persisting barriers;
• demonstrate the benefits of a European Feminist Foreign Policy and advance policy recommendations based on national good practices.

If you are interested in joining the conversations or would like to know more about the research and collective, please reach out to Agnes Mach, our Policy Officer for Political Education, Participation and Gender Equality: Agnes.Mach(at)fes.de.

• "Feminist Foreign Policy in the EU and Latin America. Building Bridges and Sharing Lessons Learned" by Daniela Sepúlveda et. al., October 2024.

• "Embracing Feminist Foreign Policy within EU Strategic Foresight Capabilities" by Anastaesia Mondesir, June 2024.

• A European Feminist Foreign Policy: The Need for a Progressive and Transformative Approach" by Aline Burni and Laeticia Thissen, February 2024.