Our Evidence
We know how valuable it can be to use learning and evidence to support our advocacy work. Here you can find our evidence hub, containing all of our published briefings, reports, situational assessments, research and data on the range of issues we work on.
Research and Evidence
From Asking to Action
Global, Consultation, Women, Peace & Security, Recommendations
From Asking to Action: A global consultation ensuring the voices of women affected by conflict are heard. We spoke to over 6,500 women in countries affected by conflict who are leading change in their communities. Now it's time to ensure their priorities are amplified and actually heard by decision-makers.
Listen to Women
Nigera, Iraq, Research, Recommendations, Participation
Identifying Barriers to and Opportunities for Women’s Participation and Leadership in Nigeria and Iraq. Written in partnership with Baghdad Women's Association (BWA) and Women Advocates, Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC).
Lost in Consultation
Research, Consultation, International Community
The international community is failing at meaningful engagement with Afghan women. The 'Lost in Consultation' report reveals the international community’s lack of willingness to engage Afghan women in discussions about their future. Compiled from responses of 213 women-led organisations across Afghanistan, this report sheds light on the urgent need for accountability and transparency.
CULTIVATING A MORE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
Around the world, climate change crises and conflicts are on the rise, and it is women and girls who are disproportionately impacted. The most climate-vulnerable communities are also some of the most affected by conflict and economic insecurity; communities that have contributed the least to the climate crisis.
RESOURCING CHANGE
This funding has enabled them to continue responding to their self-identified community needs even when these change unexpectedly, strengthen their organisational capacities to work independently and allowed them to come together and learn from each other. Access to core and flexible funding – in recognition of women’s rights organisations’ greater knowledge and experience of their contexts – enables them to prioritise and respond to what’s needed.
COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARDS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Globally, one third of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence, especially in fragile and conflict-affected states. We spoke to women around the world about their attitudes towards violence against women. Read our policy briefs, highlighting community views and amplifying the experiences of the most marginalised.
"WHERE I AM GOING AND WHERE I AM"
Afghanistan, Research and Recommendations
Hear from Afghan women Human Rights Defenders outside Afghanistan as they discuss the personal and professional opportunities and challenges they face.
“WHAT OF OUR UNFULFILLED PROMISES?”
Situational Assessment, Research, in Syria and Iraq
Situational Assessment and Policy Brief on Syrian women refugees’ experiences in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Syrian refugees living in Iraq share their experiences, challenges and calls for action.
NO ONE HEARS OUR VOICES: AFGHANISTAN REPORT
Afghan women share their hopes and fears. In their own words, Afghan women call for women's rights, inclusion in public life, urgent economic relief and for the international community to step in solidarity with them.
GENDERED IMPACT OF COVID-19
Now and the Future - Pandemics and Crisis: Gender Equality, Peace and Security in a COVID-19 World and Beyond has 22 partners and is based on consultation with over 200 organisations in 10 countries. Women for Women International is proud to be one of the partners who participated in the research, sharing findings from Nigeria and Afghanistan.
The Global Goals
We have committed to using the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for sharing our data and our contribution towards the implementation of the Goals. Alongside our printed and digital report cards, we have created an interactive dataset to illustrate the impact of our programme on targets within the Global Goals. Explore our data to see our contribution towards the implementation of the Goals.
UNHEARD. UNSEEN.
Global, Research, Recommendations
Our Agenda for Action for 2020 and beyond. Marginalised women in fragile and conflict-affected states have been left behind in the progress and ambitions of world leaders’ commitments. Our Agenda for Action sets out the five priority areas where we are calling for urgent action to achieve the changes needed for marginalised women affected by conflict.
Our Policy and Advocacy Commentary
Why is a climate justice lens important?
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Nisha Singh, Senior Global Policy and Advocacy Manager, explains why Women for Women International uses a climate ‘justice’ lens to approach our programming and advocacy to strengthen women’s resilience at the intersection of conflict and climate shocks.
The First 100 days of WPS
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The following recommendations developed by the Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) network are to inspire swift, cost-effective and necessary action from the UK on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) during the first 100 days of office.
5 JULY 2024 | Women for Women International has been long advocating for the needs and priorities of marginalised women in conflict-affected context to be integrated across UK Government policy and practice.
This statement was made by Dr. Limiaa Ahmed, Senior Program Director, Sudan Family Planning Association, at the United Nations Security Council Meeting on Sudan on 18 June.
In November 2023 the UK Government published a new White Paper that details its' strategy for International Development for 2023-2030. Read our response that welcomes a focus on conflict affected contexts and principles for partnerships but remains cautious of a limited funded landscape.
In October we attended Women, Peace and Security week with our partners from the Resourcing Change consortium. Here their reflections on a productive and interesting week at the United Nations.
Women for Women International welcomes the launch of the 2023 updated U.S. Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Strategy and National Action Plan – as required by the 2017 WPS Act.
Conflict and crises disproportionately impact women and girls – particularly their access to power and decision-making. Policymakers and donors should embed meaningful partnerships as the foundation for future feminist approaches to foreign or development policy interventions. Read this policy brief that we developed in partnership with GAPS that sets our recommendations for meaningful partnerships.
Last week, global leaders met for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit, part of the annual United Nations General Assembly. These high-level talks mark the halfway point to the 2030 deadline of achieving the SDGs. Read about how our work aligns with the Goals, and where our data helps to paint a more nuanced picture of global progress.
2023 G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Summit hits some of the right notes on gender equality, but ultimately falls short for women affected by conflict.
The UK Government recently published two long-awaited policies, reflecting how collective and sustained advocacy - anchored in women’s experiences - can contribute to small wins in a broader context of a global rollback on women’s rights, no matter how painstaking those advocacy efforts or granular those wins may feel. So, what are those small wins, and are they worth celebrating?
The UK Government’s International Women and Girls Strategy sets out an ambitious vision for achieving gender equality, but should not be celebrated until it takes the urgent steps needed to turn policy into action.
Securing women’s property rights
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2022 saw the midpoint of the UN’s 15-year 2030 Agenda, which, at its inception, was celebrated for recognising the centrality of gender equality to the entire Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): that achieving gender equality (SDG 5) would be contingent on progress made across the other 16 goals. Read this blog co-authored by Rachel Boketa and Stephanie Siddall on how women in the DRC are paving the way for other women to claim their rights.
With just eight years left to meet its commitments to achieve gender equality and implement the SDGs, has the UK government missed its opportunity? Read this blog written by Global Policy and Advocacy Officer Anna Jarrett Rawlence, published by Bond.
The realities and experiences of the most marginalised women affected by conflict are unlikely to be captured in official, national-level data. That's why we started publishing data from the women in our programmes in 2017 - increasing their visibility. Read our top 10 highlights from our monitoring and evaluation data on how our work aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
17 MAY 2022 | The UK Government must go further to ensure they listen to marginalised women and girls to inform their approach to International Development.
17 AUGUST 2021 | THE GUARDIAN
The UK government must do everything it can to help Afghan women. Together with 100 other signatories we call for visas, safe exit and humanitarian care for those now in need.
The realities and experiences of the most marginalised women affected by conflict are unlikely to be captured in official, national-level data. That's why we started publishing data from the women in our programmes in 2017 - increasing their visibility. Read our top 10 highlights from our monitoring and evaluation data on how our work aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Briefing: UK Government decisions to cut UK Aid are disproportionately falling on women and girls
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Women for Women International fed into this joint-briefing, led by CARE International, contributing our own analysis and two case studies from our programmes that had been cut.
Our Policy and Advocacy Archive
Towards an effective approach for Women, Peace and Security
subtitle: This 2016 report summarises key findings from a study commissioned by Women for Women International (WfWI) into the effects of its work in Afghanistan and Kosovo on women’s social cohesion and economic resilience.
This 2016 report summarises key findings from a study commissioned by Women for Women International (WfWI) into the effects of its work in Afghanistan and Kosovo on women’s social cohesion and economic resilience.
This 2016 report highlights the findings from a study with graduates from Women for Women International’s combined social and economic empowerment programme in Kosovo.
This 2016 paper highlights the findings from a recent study with graduates from Women for Women International’s combined social and economic empowerment programme in Afghanistan from 2009-2015.
Impact Evaluation of Women for Women International's Economic and Social Empowerment Programme in Afghanistan: an Evidence Brief
Last week, Heads of State and Government descended on New York to meet for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, as part of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Along with members of our Global Advocacy Team, I travelled to New York to represent Women for Women International at the Summit.
Our Global Advocacy Manager, Stephanie Siddall, discusses global progress towards gender equality and what more we must do to ensure that the most marginalised women and girls aren't left behind.
Carron Mann, Head of Policy and Advocacy, highlights our engagement with the UN’s 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, a key space for us to share our evidence and amplify the voices of the women we serve with key influencers.
