Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) 2018-2024
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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, ...
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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.
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The core activities funded by Sida include curriculum and resource development, training, civil society strengthening, advocacy, and movement building. WLP and their 20 partner organisations are mobilizing communities, organizations, activists, policymakers, and other stakeholders at local, national, regional, and international levels on a range of human rights initiatives. WLPs programs and learning materials are helping to increase women's potential to participate as active citizens to demand their rights and implement change, including through increased use of social media. The achievements of results are assessed the be satisfactory. WLP has during the partnership with Sida been able to expand partners internationally, strengthen democratic development and political participation and achieved results through partners' advocacy and activism. WLP Partnership has strengthened partners capacity to undertake advocacy at local, regional, and global levels and WLP trainings and curriculum have had a positive impact on changing traditional family norms, combating VAW/GBV, in addition to strengthening partnerships and network, benefits of the WLP Partnership including increased organizational capacities, strengthened capacities for advocacy and movement building, increased knowledge sharing and connections, and greater program mobilization. This has been achieved in a political climate where anti-rights movement has gained in strength and and political risks have increased such as restrictive legislation, censorship, surveillance, hacking, retribution attacks as well as physical risks i.e violent conflict, natural hazards and financial risks i.e. currency fluctuations, inflation, energy prices and reduced funding for women´s rights. Regarding WLP´s capacity building and traing modules, from the report: "Assessment of Sidas Partner Organisation Womens Learning Partnership (WLP) Including Recommendations Moving Forward". The WLPs Secretariat says the training's numerical impact is safely in the thousands. One respondent in the helpdesk assessment said their country alone (Brazil) has reached at least 250 organizations with its training and methodology. Respondents across regions report that many organizations outside the immediate partnership have adopted WLPs manuals and models, significantly impacting the organizational and community levels outreach, although exact numbers were hard to get. However, the WLP Secretariat shared the document Impact Graphic 2023 with the consultant, which presented the following numbers: 1616 CSOs reached through WLP mentoring and training, 1500 people trained by WLP partners, four countries where WLP partners celebrated law reforms. 100% of GTOT participants stated they had expanded their understanding of a culture of democracy. One hundred fifteen thousand signatories to an appeal for international solidarity with the people of Iran, co-organized by WLP. One specific example is a WLP training in Mauritania, where all 75 women candidates who participated in political leadership workshops hosted by WLP Mauritania/AFCF this year won their office during the May 2023 election cycle. Respondents across regions and cultures reported successful outcomes, positive changes, and tangible results from implementing the WLP model. Success stories include initiatives related to women's empowerment, information and skills development, legal support, conflict resolution, interreligious and intercultural dialogues, advocacy campaigns, tangible legislative changes, and women´s increased participation in politics.
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.
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