In March 2009 NSI
was awarded a
contract by the UK's
Department for
International
Development to
provide advice on
how to deepen the
linkages between its
work on trade and
gender equality. The
work was
undertaken by Ann
Weston, NSI's then
Vice-President and
Research
Coordinator, Heather Gibb, NSI Senior Researcher (Gender Equality and Workers' Rights), and
Julie Delahanty, a consultant with expertise in gender equality and women's issues. The NSI team worked with members of the joint Trade Policy Unit (TPU) established by DFID and the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to identify opportunities to mainstream and scale up a trade and gender agenda across all areas of TPU's work.
