FFP Accountability is a tool for governments, civil society, press, researchers and others interested in following commitments made by states and multilateral institutions at FFP Ministerial Conferences.

FFP Accountability is managed by the team at the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, with support from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Government of France. The accountability framework was designed by Emilia Blancarte Jaber, with inputs from Lyric Thompson, Jillian Montilla, Spogmay Ahmed and members of the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy. The website was designed by Alexia Keller.

FFP Accountability currently tracks commitments made at the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies, held in October 2025 in Paris, France. It will also track commitments from future conferences, pending sufficient human and financial resources to sustain the project.

The accountability cycle runs between the FFP Ministerial Conferences. It opens when a new Ministerial Conference takes place and runs until the next one. The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative team produces a midpoint report tracking initial implementation, followed by a final report as the cycle closes. For this current cycle, the midpoint progress report will be published in June 2026, and the final report before the end of 2026.

Cycle 1 of FFP Accountability was made possible thanks to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Government of France. Continued annual progress assessments of FFP Accountability are contingent upon renewed financial support. To learn more and support the research, movement building and leadership of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, donate here.

A commitment is a politically articulated intention made by a state or multilateral institution at an FFP Ministerial Conference, captured in official records or public statements. To be treated as a commitment, it needs to be documentable against six elements:

1. Responsible entity (e.g., government, ministry, multilateral institution)
2. Thematic focus (e.g., health, gender-based violence, climate justive)
3. Nature of commitment (e.g., new, continuation or expansion)
4. Goal/intended change
5. Timeline (explicit or inferred)
6. Geographic scope (e.g., national, regional, global, multilateral)

Commitments are identified and interpreted by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative team through a review of official conference records, notes and public statements, and are validated through structured check-ins with commitment-makers.

Data are collected from four sources: official conference records, notes compiled by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative team, transcripts or recordings where available and written follow-up provided by governments or multilateral institutions during check-ins.

Progress on commitments is tracked through structured check-ins which are the primary follow-up mechanism. Check-ins follow a standardized questionnaire to validate how commitments were interpreted, collect early implementation data and identify constraints or delays. Check-ins are coordinated jointly with assistance from designated government contacts where feasible. Quantitative indicators and qualitative information from check-ins are then integrated in the synthesis and analysis phase to produce the reports.

No, civil society commitments fall outside the scope of this project. FFP Accountability only tracks commitments made by states and multilateral institutions. It is designed to track public investment and action, in which states and multilateral institutions (which are comprised of and/or funded by governments) are the primary duty bearers.

Explore the Feminist Foreign Policy Repository to see how civil society, philanthropy, artists, the media and other important stakeholders are shaping FFP, and submit your own contributions to the field.

Yes, in several meaningful ways. Civil society is central to FFP Accountability as a source of evidence and a partner in monitoring implementation: 

• One of the five indicator domains explicitly measures the quality of governments' engagement with feminist civil society organizations.
• The framework looks for civil society inclusion in monitoring processes, recognizing its role in verifying and scrutinizing progress.

The FFP Ministerial Conferences trace back to 2022, when the German Federal Foreign Office organized the first foreign ministers’ meeting on FFP. Since then, an FFP Ministerial Conference has been organized annually by a different host government: the Government of the Netherlands in 2023, the Government of Mexico in 2024, the Government of France in 2025 and the Government of Spain in 2026. As described by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, “What once started as a high-level display of leadership with limited participation and preparatory consultation has now become an annual marker of progress on FFP.” To read more about the Ministerial Conferences, refer to the Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025 report (pages 24-26). The first cycle of FFP Accountability, commissioned by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Government of France, tracks commitments from the 2025 Ministerial Conference. 

The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative offers the following definition, grounded in consultations with feminist thinkers, advocates and experts from around the world:

“(…) the policy of a state that defines its interactions with other states, as well as movements and other non-state actors, in a manner that prioritizes peace, gender equality and environmental integrity; enshrines, promotes, and protects the human rights of all; seeks to disrupt colonial, racist, patriarchal and male-dominated power structures; and allocates significant resources, including research, to achieve that vision. Feminist foreign policy is coherent in its approach across all of its levers of influence, anchored by the exercise of those values at home and co-created with feminist activists, groups and movements, at home and abroad”

(From Feminist Foreign Policy: A Framework, Thompson, Patel, Kripke, O’Donnell 2020).

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