WILPF core support 2022-2025 WILPF core support 2022-2025 The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is a global women's rights organisation, which was founded in 1915. WILPF works to advance feminist peace for equality, justice, and demilitarised security by way of two interlinked paths: by addressing
the root causes of violence with a feminist lens and by mobilising for nonviolent action. WILPF is a membership organization with active sections in around 50 countries around the world. Sida provides core support to the WILPF International Secretariat in Geneva based on the WILPF International Strategy 2022-2025. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom är en global kvinnorättsorganisation som grundades 1915. WILPF arbetar för att uppnå feministisk fred för jämlikhet, rättvisa och en avmilitariserad säkerhet genom en tudelad men sammankopplad ansats: genom att adressera grundorsaker till våld med en feministik ansats och genom att mobilisera för ickevåldsam aktion. WILPF är en medlemsbaserad organisation med aktiva sektioner i ett 50-tal länder världen runt. Sida bidrar med kärnstöd till WILPF:s internationella sekretariat i Geneve baserat på WILPF:s internationella strategi för 2022-2025. Goal 1: Promote ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS through integrated analysis, advocacy, and outreach

Objectives

- Human rights: To support local women human rights defenders and peace activists, including through engagement with international human rights bodies, and advocate for an enabling environment for their work as well as for the respect and protection of human rights in order to achieve peace.
- Disarmament: To stigmatise systems of war and militarisation through analysis and advocacy, and by engaging in collaborative efforts that challenge violent technologies and profiteering from weapons and war.
- Feminist political economy (FPE): Use FPE analysis to expose power relations and the structural impact on gender equality, violence, and conflict.
- Gender, masculinities, and Women, Peace and Security (WPS): To contribute to the holistic implementation of the WPS agenda addressing structural barriers, promoting effective participation of women, and engaging men for feminist peace.
- Environmental peace and justice: To further strengthen WILPFs focus on the connection between environment, capitalist exploitation, and militarism by bringing together the specific and contextual analyses and concerns of WILPF Sections and Groups.
- Decolonisation and anti-racism: To challenge racism by actively change the policies, behaviors, and beliefs that perpetuate racist ideas and actions that are deeply embedded in our culture and communities. And to acknowledge that Colonisation doesnt only impact the lands and peoples originally colonised but creates enduring inequalities and determines whose knowledge is privileged. We seek to revere and remedy that through listening, analysing and taking direct action.

Goal 2: Advance FEMINIST ACTIVISM through supporting how women organise, participate, and take action

Objectives

- To provide feminist resourcing for women working for peace through technical and financial support to partners and Sections and Groups in order to support and enhance their feminist agendas.
- To support local feminist initiatives to claim spaces in governance structures and peace processes, by demanding participation, repositioning feminist voices and narratives at the centre, addressing root causes, and holding governments and decision-makers to account.
- To amplify feminist voices across WILPFs six regions, creating spaces for knowledge to be shared and developed collaboratively, and acknowledging and acting upon thematic positions, solutions, and priorities.

Goal 3: Strengthen WILPF as a diverse and inclusive organisation

Objectives

- To adopt a comprehensive strategy framework at the 2022 International Congress, new internal processes, and a governance protocol aligned with WILPFs feminist principles.
- To continue researching, identifying and remedying the root causes of lack of diversity and mainstream the action taken to oppose them across global, regional and country networks.
- To strengthen operations to become a more effective, learning-focused, safe, and sustainable feminist membership organisation.