Women Thrive Alliance

We are setting our sights on a monumental — but attainable — goal: achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by 2030.

In 2015, 193 countries agreed to the United Nations' new global agenda to end poverty, Agenda 2030. This agenda is comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from ending poverty to combatting climate change. Ultimately, the agenda emphasizes leaving no one behind – creating a world where all people can thrive.

Women Thrive supports grassroots organizations working directly with women and girls in advocacy around implementing SDG 5 on gender equality. Equipped with skills, connections, and resources, Alliance members will track governments' commitments and actions and hold all stakeholders accountable to achieving gender equality by 2030.

Our “Raise Your Voice" capacity-building program provides a global learning community where members access tailored tools, coaching, and trainings on fundraising, communications, and advocacy. Through our in person and online courses, members connect with each other, share their knowledge and learn new skills.

Our “Achieve SDG 5" advocacy program supports advocates in designing and implementing strategies to ensure that grassroots women and girls are an integral part of national efforts to implement SDG 5. Members collect data and develop evidence-based messages on women and girls' needs, priorities and solutions; connect and mobilize with other advocates; and strategically engage with local and national decision-makers. Together, we work to make sure that grassroots women and girls' voices, concerns and recommendations are heard and taking into account within United Nations decision-making.

Women Thrive Alliance is composed of 250 organizations in 50 countries. Each lends their experience and expertise to the network. Women Thrive staff have extensive experience in network building, training and teaching, and gender equality advocacy.

OUR IMPACT

Training more than 100 (and counting) gender equality advocates

Starting in 2014, Women Thrive took its advocacy training model, Raise Your Voice, directly to members. Since then, we've worked with over 100 gender equality advocates from 25 countries to help them build the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to raise their voices and be heard by decision-makers. In intensive, engaging workshops, participants – from Girl Guides in Ghana to young leaders in Senegal to experienced advocates in Kenya – built relationships, developed advocacy messages, and planned activities. Following the workshops, participants put their advocacy planning into action: some took their messages directly to Parliament, others started awareness-raising campaigns in their communities, and others worked together to influence regional and global decision-makers.

Securing Sustainable Development Goal 4

After nearly four years of hard work, Women Thrive and members of our Alliance were thrilled to see the language we'd collectively advocated for included in Sustainable Development Goal 4, which ensures every girl and every boy has the right to quality education and everyone—woman, man, girl, and boy— has life-long access to learning.