Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

What Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy does

Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) was a Berlin-based non-governmental think tank founded in 2018 by Kristina Lunz and Nina Bernarding, and the first organization globally fully dedicated to feminist foreign policy. It operated as a research, advocacy, and consulting platform delivering policy publications, international summits, advocacy campaigns, and feminist convenings rather than any commercial software or technology product; its core 'platform' was an editorial workflow producing 40+ publications and 60+ projects on peace and security, human rights, climate justice, anti-gender movements, cybersecurity, and nuclear disarmament. CFFP advised governments — most notably the German Federal Foreign Office ahead of Germany's 2021 feminist foreign policy commitment and BMZ's 2023 Feminist Development Policy — and engaged a coalition of over 100 Global South activists across 25+ countries, governments of Canada, Sweden, Mexico, and Switzerland, and foundations including Berghof, Friedrich-Ebert, Heinrich-Böll, Campact, Schöpflin, and Open Society Foundation, alongside Microsoft. Its go-to-market was community-led advocacy: free publication downloads, high-profile events (Munich Security Conference women-only dinners via FRAUEN100 since 2022), media campaigns (e.g., 2024 European Parliament election push via Ströer digital out-of-home), and direct government advisory engagements. The business model was non-profit grant funding rather than commercial revenue, with no pricing, no products sold, and no disclosed financials. CFFP closed at the end of June 2025 following a sustained digital attack campaign targeting co-founder Kristina Lunz after an October 2024 press conference on femicide prevention and abortion decriminalization.

Name

Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

Legal name

Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

Website

https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) was a Berlin-based non-profit think tank, founded in 2018 and closed in June 2025, that pioneered feminist foreign policy through policy research, government advisory work, global convenings, and advocacy campaigns targeting governments, civil society, and the academic community worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding and Donations: CFFP operates as a non-profit organization funded primarily through grants from foundations, government agencies, and donations. Started in 2018 with no funding or institutional support, the organization secured funding from various sources including German Federal Foreign Office, Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berghof Foundation, Campact Demokratie Stiftung, Schöpflin Stiftung, and Microsoft.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CFFP is a non-profit research, advocacy, and consulting organization that produces policy publications and reports on feminist foreign policy, peace and security, human rights, and climate justice. It organizes international summits, conferences, and press events; runs advocacy campaigns on women's and LGBTQI+ rights; and convenes Global South activists to develop intersectional feminist policy frameworks for governments and international institutions.

Product overview

CFFP operates as a research, advocacy, and consulting organization rather than a traditional product company. Its offerings consist of policy publications and reports (including the 'Power Over Rights' anti-gender campaigns study, military AI analysis, and intersectional feminist perspectives on cybercrime), international summits and events (including the first-ever Feminist Foreign Policy Summit in 2022), advocacy campaigns on women's rights, global feminist convenings, and an e-learning programme on LGBTQI+ perspectives in Women, Peace, and Security. The organization functions as a knowledge hub and advocacy platform, not as a software product or technology platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Policy Publications and Reports

Quantifiable outcome

• First organization fully dedicated to feminist foreign policy globally
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and supporting.

• Friedrich-Ebert-FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Supported CFFP's collaboration with Ukrainian feminists to develop policy brief 'Build Back Better for Everyone – a Feminist Perspective on Reconstruction and Recovery of Ukraine.' The partnership examined post-war recovery through a feminist lens.
• FRAUEN100coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Collaboration with FRAUEN100, an influential feminist women's rights network, to host one of the most distinguished events at the annual Munich Security Conference since 2022. The CFFP x FRAUEN100 MSC Dinner brings together heads of state, Nobel Laureates, and global activists.
• HÁWAR.helpcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Collaboration with HÁWAR.help for Afghan women's human rights work. Following the Taliban's return to power in 2021, CFFP and HÁWAR.help collaborated swiftly, raising over 160,000 Euros for Afghan women's human rights organizations within days and hosting a press conference in Berlin.
• Governments of Canada, Sweden, Mexico, and SwitzerlandflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Government partners for the first-ever Feminist Foreign Policy Summit in April 2022, working with over 15 leading civil society organizations and Open Society Foundation to bring together leading thinkers and practitioners in feminist foreign policy.
• Berghof FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupported CFFP in developing the guidebook for inclusion of LGBTQI+ groups in the Women, Peace, and Security Architecture. Content developed through consultations with 18 feminist, peacebuilding, and LGBTQI+ organizations from Global North and South.
• Heinrich Böll FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with CFFP on web dossier regarding nuclear weapons and their humanitarian and ecological consequences, featuring stories from communities affected by nuclear weapons production, use and testing.
• StröersupportingGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership for displaying campaign visuals on digital Out-of-Home advertising surfaces across Germany, significantly increasing campaign reach and visibility.
• GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implementing partner supporting the LGBTQI+ inclusion guidebook project in the WPS Architecture.
• BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCFFP engaged with BMZ for development of intersectional feminist development policy, organizing convenings with Global South feminists to develop recommendations for Germany's Feminist Development Policy launched in March 2023.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Chatham House: Leading international affairs think tank producing independent policy research and convening. Comparable as a high-profile, internationally recognized foreign policy research organization.
• International Crisis Group: Large, established think tank producing policy analysis and field research on conflict and foreign policy worldwide. Comparable as a policy-research and government-advisory organization, though it is not feminist-focused.
• Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) – German Institute for International and Security Affairs: Berlin-based policy institute advising the German Bundestag and government on international and security policy. Comparable as a Germany-based foreign policy research and government-advisory organization.
• European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR): Pan-European foreign policy think tank producing analysis and convening governments — a comparable European policy-research and convening organization, though broader in scope than CFFP.

Direct peers

• Open Society Foundations: Global grantmaking and advocacy foundation that financially supported CFFP's 2022 Summit. Comparable as a major funder and operator of policy and rights-focused programs including gender and democracy.
• Heinrich Böll Foundation: German political foundation affiliated with the Greens and a confirmed CFFP funder/partner (nuclear disarmament dossier). Comparable as a grantmaking and policy-research organization working on feminism, climate, and international affairs.
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES): German political foundation and confirmed CFFP partner (Ukraine feminist recovery brief). Comparable as a German political foundation funding feminist, foreign policy, and development research.
• GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit): German federal development agency that partnered with CFFP on the WPS LGBTQI+ inclusion guidebook. Comparable as a German government-affiliated international cooperation implementation body.
• WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom): The oldest feminist peace organization (founded 1915) working at the intersection of women's rights, peace, security, and disarmament — directly overlapping CFFP's core thematic focus and civil society advocacy model.

Emerging players

• ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons): Civil society coalition working on nuclear disarmament — directly comparable to CFFP's nuclear-related publications and Berghof collaboration, and similarly structured as an advocacy + research network driving policy outcomes.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/centre-for-feminist-foreign-policy
• Instagraminstagram.com/feministforeignpolicy
• Facebookfacebook.com/centreforfeministforeignpolicy
• Xx.com/feministfp

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