Women Deliver Inc

All of our work, across our teams, feeds into the three overarching workstreams: Collective Action for Change, Emerging Leaders for Change, and Convening for Change programs. For instance: Multilateral Engagement - Global Policy and Advocacy: Our overarching approach to global policy and advocacy is to identify and leverage key policy windows to drive meaningful progress on gender equality, including by influencing governments, convening diverse stakeholders, and amplifying the work of grassroots partners and Emerging Leaders. Women Deliver continuously engages stakeholders, decision-makers, influencers, and those outside the community of already engaged champions to advocate for improved policies and programs and increased financial and political commitments for advancing gender equality and SRHR. We leverage our convenings, communications, and advocacy platforms as spaces to facilitate more inclusive decision-making. We also advise and influence governments, multilaterals, and private sector decision-makers. For more effective advocacy for gender equality and SRHR, we develop and promote user-centered methodologies for strengthening capacity and knowledge sharing. We create spaces for connection and peer-to-peer learning, reach advocates with diverse experiences and identities, and support their ability to influence at different levels of decision- and policy-making. Finally, our advocacy harnesses the most rigorous and compelling evidence. We collate and translate the latest data and information into clear-sighted messages to build the case for prioritizing gender equality and the health and rights of girls and women. And when the data do not exist, we call for more attention to overlooked topics and partner to generate new evidence. We focus on what works, using advocacy grounded in evidence to shift policies and drive investments.

Convenings for Change - The Women Deliver 2026 Conference (WD2026): Looking ahead, Women Deliver is preparing to host the Women Deliver 2026 Conference (WD2026) in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia from 27-30 April 2026. WD2026 will build on the successes and lessons of WD2023 and reflect our deepened commitment to equity, accessibility, and feminist co-leadership. WD2026 will be our most intersectional and accessible convening yet - designed to bring together diverse actors across movements, sectors, and regions to co-create solutions that drive gender equality forward. The Conference will prioritize meaningful engagement with historically marginalized communities, including youth, First Nations peoples, LGBTQIA+ advocates, and people with disabilities, ensuring that their lived experiences and leadership are at the center of dialogue and decision-making. In line with our mission to elevate feminist leadership and shift power to those closest to the issues, WD2026 will be developed in co-creation with regional and global partners through a participatory process grounded in shared values and local realities. We are investing in hybrid programming, multilingual access, comprehensive safeguarding measures, and regional consultations to ensure that WD2026 drives long-term impact. The Conference will serve as a global platform to accelerate progress on SRHR, climate justice, feminist financing, and other critical priorities, and will create space for advocates to connect, mobilize, and influence policies and investments that shape the future of gender equality. Through WD2026, Women Deliver is reaffirming its role as a convener, connector, and catalyst for collective action.