How can we use an intersectional feminist way of thinking to shape our foreign policies? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) launched the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective to develop concrete proposals for the EU and national level.

Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) provides a powerful tool to question traditional approaches to foreign policy, which often reinforce patriarchal, post-colonial systems. FFP’s value-based approach shows that there is an alternative way – grounded in an intersectional feminist way of thinking and transformative strategies to tackle structural inequalities within societies and on a global level.

More and more countries, especially in Europe and Latin America, have announced their own feminist foreign policies in recent years. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and FEPS took this development as an opportunity to launch the FFP Progressive Voices Collective (FFPPVC) in 2023. The Collective – co-chaired by Ann Linde, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and Machris Cabreros, Global Coordinator of the Progressive Alliance, – gathers experts from policymaking, academia, and civil society from around the world. It aims to facilitate debates and to develop concrete policy proposals on how to implement a feminist foreign policy.

The FFP policy brief series “Feminist Foreign Policy in Action” provides recommendations on core FFP topics such as feminist funding as well as a feminist perspective on security and defence. You can find the series on the website of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung here.