Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) 2018-2024 - ISK WLP Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) 2018-2024 Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) is an international women’s rights organization comprised of a partnership of 20 autonomous women’s rights organizations, primarily from transitioning and developing societies with WLP’s secretariat located in Maryland, USA. WLP’s mission is to transform power relations and promote justice, equality, peace, and sustainable development by strengthening the feminist movement. This is done through curriculum and resource development, training, capacity development, advocacy and movement building while promoting and sustaining leadership that is participatory and replicable. WLP's overall objective is to empower women to become active citizens and effective participatory leaders and to build communities of shared values of social and political change to achieve legal equality, economic justice, security and political participation through advocacy and movement building. 

Sida has funded WLP with core support from 2015. Through curriculum development, training, civil society strengthening, women’s human rights advocacy and movement building, WLP has expanded partners’ international, regional, and local leadership, raised public awareness on democracy and women’s rights, strengthened democratic development and political participation by training more than 22,000 emerging leaders, and achieved commendable results through partners’ advocacy and activism. 

WLP submitted an application to Sida for core support of 36 000 000 SEK for a four-year time-frame (2018-2022) on 27 March, 2018. The intervention will focus on capacity development of its partners, women and girls through training programs; produce and promote feminist research from the Global South; participate in and support women’s organisations’ advocacy and networking activities; preserve women’s movement history though documentation of the women’s movement; and expand WLP’s international outreach for long-term sustainability. Additionally, WLP will expand its program in four new directions in response to external factors shaping the rights of women globally: i) empowering refugee women, ii) reforming family law, iii) promoting human security, and iv) strengthening the capacity of women's civil society organisations.

The intervention's total budget for 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2022 is approximately 90 000 000 SEK, out of which WLP has secured funding of approximately 5 870 000 SEK (663 000 USD). Several of WLP's donors provide short term support which is expected to be renewed on a yearly basis. The support from Sida accounts for approximately 40% of the organization's total budget during the 4 year intervention period. Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) är en koalition bestående av 20 autonoma kvinnorättsorganisationer med ett sekretariat i Bethesda, USA. WLP är en organisation som värdesätter lokalt ägarskap och mångfald i sina partnerskap. Organisationen agerar utifrån ett rättighetsperspektiv och kombinerar kontextbaserad kapacitetsutveckling med forskning och policyutveckling. WLP har också ett starkt fokus på Syd-Syd samarbete som en central komponent i sitt demokrati och jämställdhetsarbete.

WLP inkom 27 mars 2018 med en ansökan till Sida om fortsatt kärnstöd om 36 000 000 SEK för perioden 1 juli 2018 till 30 juni 2022. Insatsen syftar till att stödja kapacitetsutveckling av sina partnerorganisationer, kvinnor och flickor; främja feministisk forskning i det globala Syd; stödja kvinnoorganisationers påverkansarbete och nätverk; dokumentera kvinnorörelsens historia med fokus på Syd; samt stärka WLPs uppdrag och hållbarhet. Dessutom planerar WLP att utöka sitt arbete i fyra nya riktningar: i) stödja flyktingkvinnor genom att stärka deras kapacitet och ledarskap, ii) reform av loka familjelagstiftning, iii) främja mänsklig säkerhet, och iv) stärka kvinnorättsorganisationers kapacitet.

Utvecklingsinsatsens totala budget för perioden 1 juli 2018 till 30 juni 2022 är ca 90 000 000 SEK av vilka WLPs givare har bekräftat stöd om cirka 5 870 000 SEK (663 000 USD). Flera av WLPs givare ger ett-åriga stöd vilka förväntas förnyas på årlig basis. Stödet från Sida står för cirka 40% av organisationens totala budget under de 4 år som Sidas stöd omfattar, förutsätt att övriga givares bidrag blir enligt plan. WLPs mission is to transform power relations and promote justice, equality, peace, and sustainable development by strengthening the feminist movement. WLP's vision is "Democratic and peaceful societies that embrace pluralism and tolerance and are governed by gender-equitable norms, legislation, and policies that translate into equal rights and equal levels of participation and decision-making for women and men in the family, community, and politics."

The interventions overall objective is to empower women to become active citizens and participatory leaders in achieving legal equality, economic justice, security and political participation through capacity building, awareness raising, advocacy and policy work.