Stakeholder engagement workshops on Scotland’s feminist approach to foreign policy: evidence report
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Based on five stakeholder workshops, with feminists from Scotland and across the Global South, this reports synthesises recommendations for the Scottish Government as it develops a feminist approach to its external relations. The workshops focused on International Development, Peace and Security, Climate Justice, and Trade Justice. Several key messages for the Scottish Government emerged:
- Support feminist groups and women’s organisations by shifting power to them and creating spaces at decision-making tables
- Make funding feminist – meaning making it accessible, flexible, and longer-term
- Be an innovator and influencer – Scotland has a good story to tell on progress towards being a wellbeing economy, a just transition, and tackling gender-based violence … tell it globally!
- Speak out – show moral leadership on key issues such as economic and trade justice, the need for demilitarisation, and transformative climate finance
- Ensure policy coherence between national and international policies – still too much to do here – use the review of the National Outcomes to make this happen!