OUR VISION AND MISSION

Our vision

A gender-just world where all girls, women, and gender-diverse people have control over their bodies and lives.

Our mission

Catalyze and convene the gender equality ecosystem to spark political imagination and encourage systemic change. We do this by:

Reorienting the ecosystem

Around States’ obligations to all people — especially girls, women, and gender-diverse people — by moving away from approaches that substitute for national governments and toward collective action that holds States accountable for their human rights obligations.

Rebalancing power

So feminist movements and civil society with direct links to those most affected by injustice have the space, safety, access, legitimacy, and power to hold States and institutions to account.

OUR ROLE IN THE GENDER EQUALITY ECOSYSTEM

Women Deliver works at the ecosystem level, connecting efforts around a shared political direction and creating the conditions for greater collective impact.

The gender equality ecosystem already includes strong movements and organizations delivering services, advancing policy and legal change, generating evidence, and driving progress across issues and geographies.

We work across issues, sectors, and geographies to strengthen the relationships, political alignment, and connective infrastructure that enable diverse actors to act together. Drawing on two decades of relationships, convening power, and political insight, we help partners identify common ground, build political will, and translate shared priorities into sustained collective action.

Our leadership is relational and political. We aim to strengthen what already exists, connect actors who may not otherwise work together, and help create the alignment needed to move from individual efforts to collective action — while respecting the autonomy, expertise, and leadership of feminist movements, civil society, and partners across the ecosystem.

The Melbourne Declaration for Gender Equality, co-created with more than 900 people across every region of the world, is the current expression of our vision for ecosystem change and the foundation for this collective action.

The Melbourne Declaration in action

Adolescent girls’ rights

Advance a new narrative that recognizes adolescent girls as rights-holders and leaders, and build the political will, coordination, accountability, and funding needed to fulfill their rights.

Global health

Build political support for feminist, rights-based health systems that are inclusive, people-centered, and accountable to the people they serve — especially girls, women, and gender-diverse people.

Climate

Strengthen the leadership, connections, and collective power of movements working to hold States accountable and advance feminist climate justice.

Shared direction and collective action

Together, these areas show how shared political direction, stronger connections, and collective action can advance gender equality across issues and geographies.

How we work

Ignite Interest and Political Will

Spark imagination, strengthen political will, and inspire collective action around a shared vision.

Build the Infrastructure to Plan and Execute the Vision

Strengthen the relationships, coordination, shared learning, political alignment, and accountability needed to turn commitments into action.

Convene the Ecosystem and Partners

Bring diverse partners together at defining global, regional, and thematic moments to deepen alignment and accelerate change.

Read Women Deliver’s 2025–2030 Strategy →

We aspire to be a feminist organization committed to continual evolution and learning. Our values guide how we show up in this work.

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 and 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 that we have ourselves benefited from and perpetuated these practices.

As part of our goal to become an international non-governmental organization (iNGO) of the 21st century, we are committed to ensuring our practices reflect our feminist and anti-racist values and actively contribute to dismantling the systems that oppress girls and women.