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AWID, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), and the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), offers this think piece to challenge mainstream understandings of development and put forward initial propositions for a feminist agenda for development, economic and gender justice.

We create space for feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies to take collective action to counter the influence of anti-rights actors. We also seek to advance women’s rights and feminist frameworks, norms and proposals, and to protect and promote the universality of rights.

Going forward, we expect to continue with the co-directorship model given the nature, scope, and weight of the responsibilities of the executive role at AWID. Our first experience with co-leadership was a success in a multitude of ways, as you all have seen.

Over five years into our journey, we are stepping down as AWID’s Co-EDs. Our decision comes as we wrap up the current strategic cycle. We see this as an ideal moment to step aside and support a leadership refresh. We believe that transformative feminist leadership is cyclical. 

The Feminist Journalist Project is a one-year initiative supported by the Foundation for a Just Society. It brings together 15 fierce feminist journalists from across the globe. As AWID, we are excited to convene this space for shared learning, and collaboration beyond borders and binaries. We recognize that each participant of this cohort is already changing the world, in their own unique way, and so we have no doubt that together we can co-create stories that contribute to the feminist worlds we want to live in.

This closed conversation brought together domestic workers (DW) and feminist allies across regions to share knowledge about DW and how to support their strategies for Emancipation.