Strategic Framework Extended Through 2026

Women Deliver strives to ensure that every girl and woman has full control over her body and life. We work on four urgent, overlapping issues within the gender equality sector to make this a reality: shifting power to adolescent girls, advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in global health, addressing the climate crisis, and upholding human rights. We advance these priorities through four core programs: Transforming Global Spaces, Convening for Change, Collective Action for Change, and Emerging Leaders for Change. 

Our existing Strategic Framework period, originally developed for 2021–2025, has been extended through 2026 in response to a volatile and rapidly changing global context. Compounding political, economic, and climate crises are reshaping the landscape for gender equality, requiring adaptability, continuity, and sector-wide coordination. 

Based on this strategy — and informed by a thorough analysis of current sector and geopolitical dynamics — we made a deliberate decision in May 2025 not to initiate a full strategic renewal. Instead, we chose to extend the existing framework and focus on sector-shaping processes, which are intended to help set direction for the broader gender equality and feminist ecosystem. This approach allows us to strengthen alignment, share priorities, and take collective action across movements and institutions. 

We are using our current strategy as a basis to collectively create a vision for the world we want to see, while this period also guides our work through the Feminist Playbook and its Blueprint processes. 

Once these processes conclude and the sector’s priorities become clearer, Women Deliver will embark on a more detailed strategic planning process to guide our role as a global convener.

 

Women’s Deliver 2021-2025 Strategic Framework

Women Deliver strives to ensure every girl and woman has full control over her body and life. For this purpose, we have refined our strategic framework by focusing our work on three urgent overlapping issues within gender equality:  

• SRHR in Global Health: Having control over one’s body means having access to complete sexual and reproductive health care. Women Deliver works to advance feminist and rights-based health systems that meet the needs of all, especially adolescent girls.
• The Climate Crisis: The climate crisis is not gender neutral. Despite contributing the least to it, adolescent girls, women, and gender-diverse people face the greatest challenges from it. Supporting their resilience depends on upholding their right to bodily autonomy and ensuring they have universal access to SRHR and climate-resilient health systems.
• Upholding Human Rights: For the past 30 years, feminist movements and women’s human rights defenders have achieved incredible progress for women, girls, and gender-diverse people. But now, that progress is facing critical threats. We’re working to uphold international human rights law and hold governments accountable to their human rights obligations.

Our Unique Approach:

• Transforming Global Spaces: Gender inequality is a global problem that demands a global solution. We leverage existing global spaces —and create new ones — to strengthen the movement for gender equality. We use global spaces to turn advocacy into concrete policies and programs, shape international agendas, and build strategies that unite movements and center the leadership of the Global Majority.
• Convening for Change: Women Deliver Convenings are among the world’s most impactful moments for gender equality, fostering unity, energy, ideas, and collective action to address critical global issues and protect girls’ and women’s bodily autonomy. Our Convenings for Change Program extends beyond our global Conferences, building on their momentum by creating global spaces for organizations, alliances, networks, and activists to regularly unite to tackle the interconnected issues that stand in the way of our shared goals.
• Collective Action for Change: Maintaining momentum for gender equality requires continuous collective action. By leading and supporting strategic coalitions, alliances, and partnerships, we help sustain global efforts to advance progress not only at key global spaces and during global moments for change, but also before, after, and between them.
• Emerging Leaders for Change: Investing in young advocates leads to real, lasting solutions for bodily autonomy. We back those who know their communities and best understand what adolescent girls need.