Feministische Außenpolitik für Afrika nutzbar machen (EN)

The document examines Germany's transition toward a feminist foreign policy (FFP) specifically within its engagement with Africa, focusing on the BMZ's 2023 Africa Strategy. While it acknowledges the strategy's commitment to overcoming structural inequalities and aligning with African-led priorities like Agenda 2063, it argues that the 'feminist reflex' is currently limited to international development and fails to systematically penetrate other critical domains such as peace and security, trade, climate change, and migration. The author suggests that for FFP to be truly transformative, Germany must move beyond gender equality platitudes to address the care economy, indigenous knowledge in climate action, and the racialized nature of migration policy.

• The BMZ's 2023 Africa Strategy, 'Shaping the Future with Africa', represents the first concrete application of the coalition government's feminist foreign policy (FFP) within international development, aligning itself with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and emphasizing solidarity over imposition.
• Germany's FFP approach to Africa is currently inconsistent because the feminist orientation is largely confined to a 'singular axis of development cooperation' and is not systematically integrated into other focus areas such as sustainable economic development, health, or peace and security.
• The BMZ strategy explicitly aims to address structural inequalities, including racism and post-colonial continuities, which the author notes were previously blind spots in the general Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy.
• In the realm of peace and security, the author argues that Germany should expand its support beyond formal structures like FemWise-Africa to include feminist-led civil society organizations that can reach marginalized populations, including queer Africans.
• The document identifies a gap in Germany's economic approach to Africa, noting that neither the BMZ Africa Strategy nor the FFP Guidelines address the 'care economy' (unpaid care work primarily done by women), focusing instead on the circular, digital, and green economies.
• Regarding climate change, the author critiques Germany's current approach as adopting a 'masculinist protector' role that ignores indigenous knowledges and practices for climate mitigation.
• The author suggests that Germany's approach to migration in the BMZ Africa Strategy is more pragmatic than the broader European 'crisis' narrative, but argues that it still lacks a framework to address intersecting vulnerabilities caused by racism, homophobia, and transphobia.

APA

Haastrup, T. (2023). Feministische Außenpolitik für Afrika nutzbar machen (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute. https://afripoli.org/de/feministische-aussenpolitik-afrika-nutzbar-machen-en

Chicago

Haastrup, Toni. Feministische Außenpolitik für Afrika nutzbar machen (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute, 2023. https://afripoli.org/de/feministische-aussenpolitik-afrika-nutzbar-machen-en.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{haastrup2023feministische, author = {Haastrup, Toni}, title = {{Feministische Außenpolitik für Afrika nutzbar machen (EN)}}, institution = {Africa Policy Research Institute}, year = {2023}, month = apr, url = {https://afripoli.org/de/feministische-aussenpolitik-afrika-nutzbar-machen-en}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }