Conference – Women Deliver

Women Deliver Conference

Women Deliver convenings catalyze conversations with stakeholders from around the world, break barriers, address challenges, and identify opportunities to advance gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and improve the wellbeing of girls and women, in all their intersecting identities.


The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda and online from 17-20 July 2023. 


For additional information on WD2023, please visit WD2023.org

CONNECTING ADVOCATES AND DECISION MAKERS.

Women Deliver Conferences convene thousands of decision-makers from diverse fields, including civil society, government, the private sector, and international agencies, alongside women’s rights organizations and movements, youth-led and LGBTQIA+ organizations, and advocates representing the intersectional identities of girls, women, and underrepresented populations in order to identify solutions, bolster accountability, and drive change.  WD2023 will adopt a greater focus on partnerships than ever before by building bridges between diverse actors and bringing country-level advocates’ perspectives to bear, both in-person and virtually, every step of the way.  

FUELING GLOBAL AND COUNTRY-LEVEL ACTION.

Women Deliver Conferences promote a robust civic space for feminist action, organizing, and mobilization by creating space for critical dialogue, knowledge sharing, and networking. Women Deliver is committed to developing an accessible and inclusive platform, both in-person and virtually, to ensure that underrepresented populations and advocates representing the intersectional identities of girls and women, particularly those living in low-and middle-income countries, are meaningfully engaged in WD2023. We hope that advocates, whether engaging in our convenings in-person or virtually, will be inspired to take action and harness new knowledge, skills, and connections to achieve their advocacy goals.

INFLUENCING THE GLOBAL AGENDA.

WD2023 will serve as an important policy moment and accountability mechanism following a number of commitments that have been made around gender equality at international fora, including the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), the Global Education Summit, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the G7 Summit, and the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26), among others. WD2023 is well positioned to ensure that commitments made in the coming years result in gender-transformative policy change. WD2023 will be co-created and co-led by diverse stakeholders who will play a leading role in shaping dialogue, fostering collaboration, and driving collective action before, during, and after the Conference.

WD2007

Convened the 1st Women Deliver Conference in London, UK

In 2007, the maternal mortality rate was high and falling too slowly. World leaders and advocates needed to step up, rally around the issue, and commit to action. And they needed a place to do it. To fill the void, the Women Deliver Conference was born. By bringing together 1,700 people and making the investment case for reproductive and maternal health, Women Deliver was able to get Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 – Improve Maternal Health – on the global development agenda.

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WD2010

Convened the 2nd Women Deliver Conference in Washington, DC

In addition to championing SRHR with the support of 3,400 advocates, Women Deliver’s 2nd Conference meaningfully engaged youth, providing a platform for 100 young leaders to share their expertise and call on decision-makers to prioritize the advancement of girls and women’s health and rights.

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WD2013

Convened the 3rd Women Deliver Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Conference brought together over 4,500 attendees from 149 countries and featured a wide range of speakers, topics, and events related to the health and well-being of girls and women. More than 1,000 participants were sponsored to attend the Conference. Women Deliver financially supported travel and accommodations for 23 percent of delegates, launched a social enterprise competition, and was instrumental in the Prime Minister of Malaysia’s main stage declaration that family planning was a human right.

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WD2016

Convened the 4th Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark

As one of the first major global convenings following the launch of the SDGs, the Conference underscored the crucial role of advancing girls and women’s health and rights across all of the SDGs to drive progress for all. Ninety-seven percent of the Conference’s 6,000 attendees affirmed that they would take action as a result of attending WD2016. 

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WD2019

Convened the 5th Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Canada

With more than 8,000 advocates from over 165 countries on site and over 200,000 people joining around the world through satellite events and the virtual Conference, WD2019 was the largest convening for gender equality in the world. The Conference connected grassroots advocates and decision-makers, fueled over USD 1 billion in global and country-level investments, and shined a global spotlight on the importance of gender equality.

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WD2023

The 6th Women Deliver Conference will be held in Kigali, Rwanda and online from 17-20 July 2023.

The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) will promote a robust civic space, both onsite and online, for feminist action, organizing, and mobilization and will be more inclusive, diverse, accessible, and consultative than ever before. 

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WD2023

6th Women Deliver Conference

The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda  and online from 17-20 July 2023. 

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