1984
Bergen, Norway
Following the Bangalore meeting, DAWN undertakes extensive outreach research with women and development networks, gathering grounded perspectives from the global South, which are then debated and incorporated into a draft that would become DAWN’s first book. A few months later, with support from the Norwegian government and the Ford Foundation, a group comes together to look at the final draft, which was written in just three weeks. Gita Sen, who will go on to become one of DAWN’s co-founders, recalls the energy and urgency of that moment, which propelled the group to the 1985 Nairobi UN Conference and laid the foundation for DAWN’s intellectual legacy.
