WHAT COMES NEXT
Delegates exchange ideas in a consultation held in the Melbourne Declaration Hub, with ‘Redistribute Power’ and ‘Care’ visible on the wall behind them.
The work does not end when a conference closes.
The vision for the gender equality ecosystem reflected in the Melbourne Declaration for Gender Equality is the movement’s north star. It wasn’t built by one organization — it was built by more than 900 people across every major world region: feminist leaders, grassroots organizers, Indigenous advocates, governments, and multilateral institutions who came together to define what accountability actually looks like. It does not belong to Women Deliver. It belongs to the movement.
We know what we’re up against. The window is narrowing. The Declaration doesn’t pretend otherwise — it names what must change, and it gives the ecosystem a shared framework to demand it together.
Women Deliver is committed to continuing to:
- Provide political direction with a view to transforming our gender equality ecosystem and to re-center States’ obligations at the core of collective action, as per the Melbourne Declaration
- Leverage its convening power to foster and sustain cross-movement and transnational solidarity
- Convening the gender equality ecosystem with transformation as the goal — creating space for all stakeholders to meet, strategize, and build collective solutions in service of girls, women, and gender-diverse people
As of July 2026: 829 endorsements, 318 from organizations. Eleven governments have signed the States Declaration. It is showing up in national advocacy strategies, funding decisions, and the daily work of movements using it to demand more.
We came to Narrm because we don’t have a promises problem. We have a delivery problem. The Melbourne Declaration is the movement’s framework for solving it.
