OUR VISION AND MISSION

The primary obstacle for gender equality is the persistent lack of bodily autonomy and integrity for girls and women.

Led by and representing feminist movements and youth advocates in the majority of the world, Women Deliver plays a pivotal role in global collective action for gender equality. Our mission is to protect and promote the bodily autonomy of girls, women, and gender-diverse people, focusing specifically on their control over their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We believe that gender equality cannot be achieved unless girls, women, and gender-diverse people have the freedom to make fundamental choices about their own bodies, sexuality, and health.

Our Goals

Goal 1: Co-create a collective vision for the future

Collectively build and activate a Feminist Playbook as both a bold statement of our shared vision and a living process that unites partners in purpose, commitment, and action toward a world where every girl, woman, and gender-diverse person can take full control over their bodies and lives.

Goal 2: Transform global spaces

Transform and safeguard global spaces as strategic platforms within the gender equality ecosystem for collective agenda-setting and coordinated action, driving progress on the Feminist Playbook’s key issues, including strengthening girls’ and women’s autonomy over their bodies and futures.

Goal 3: Build a cross-movement solidarity alliance

Foster collaboration and coordination across movements, sectors, and generations to establish a cross-movement alliance grounded in shared accountability, collective decision-making, and bold partnerships. Aligning diverse actors to advance the Feminist Playbook’s priorities and expand opportunities for girls and women to make informed choices about their health, rights, and futures.

Goal 4: Mobilize financing for the future we deserve

Secure bold political and financial commitments that shift power and resources to movements advancing gender equality, resource the collective vision and blueprint of the Feminist Playbook, and uphold the rights and bodily autonomy of girls and women.

We aspire to be a feminist organization, committed to continual evolution and learning. Our values underpin how we show up in the movement.

Our Values

  • Honesty and integrity
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Inclusivity and accessibility
  • Bravery and humility
  • Collaborative and partner-focused

Our Principles

  • Bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are rights, not privileges.
  • Bodily autonomy and reproductive rights are the foundation for gender equality.
  • A girl or woman is anyone who has lived experience as a girl or woman, or identifies as a girl or woman. This unquestionably includes trans women, nonbinary people, and other gender-diverse individuals.
  • Girls and women are experts in their own lives.
  • Advocacy for girls and women must be guided by and representative of their diverse lived experiences. This requires applying an intersectional lens, recognizing how race, class, age, gender, and other factors overlap to shape inequities.
  • Securing bodily autonomy requires dismantling systems of oppression, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, fascism, capitalism, and Global Minority power.

Commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonialism

Women Deliver acknowledges that our sector and work are deeply embedded in colonial and racist power structures, ideals, and practices and we, ourselves, have benefitted from and perpetuated these practices. As a key part of our goal to become an international non-government organization (iNGO) of the 21st century, we are committed to shaping a future where our practices not only reflect our feminist and anti-racist values but also actively contribute to dismantling the systems that oppress girls and women.