One World Action works with local partners in developing countries to ensure marginalised people have a voice. Women's rights are central to all we do-- just and sustainable development is not possible if half the world is excluded.
How we do it
We provide our partners with opportunities they want and need-- lobbying, funding, networking and capacity-building. We challenge unjust international policies on aid and trade, and link our partners together. We enable our partners to advocate for themselves rather than advocating on their behalf.
Where we do it
As well as Africa, Asia and Latin America, we now have partners in Eastern Europe and work alongside them to advocate in the UK and Europe for better policies and international support.
Why we are different
We don't pretend justice and inequality are not political issues. We tackle the root cause of poverty--lack of power--by campaigning for women's full participation. We don't have field offices or vehicles overseas and we don't impose an agenda.
Our Strategic Objectives for 2008-2013
Building ACCOUNTABILITY
We will support innovative, bold initiatives by people’s organisations to engage successfully with their governments to hold them accountable for fulfilling basic rights.
We will advocate and campaign for stronger local, national and international policy, spaces, legislation and frameworks that promote accountable engagement between citizens and the state.
We will gather, document and communicate evidence with our partners on how and why such initiatives work and deliver justice and equality for excluded people.
Building CITIZEN CAPACITY
We will support and strengthen people’s organisations and social movements to advocate and engage in influential relationships with their governments at all levels.
We will support our partners in the creation, development and exploitation of spaces for their engagement with the state, including laws, policies and institutions.
We will create opportunities for our Southern partners to talk directly to decision-makers and those in power.
Building WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION
We will support and strengthen active women’s organisations and movements that promote women’s participation and empowerment.
We will advocate and campaign to remove barriers that exclude women from political participation.
We will advocate and campaign against violence against women as an issue of governance.
We will support action research to develop tools for women to monitor government and international commitments to gender equity and equality
Building SOLIDARITY
We will actively participate in the global networks and social movements that genuinely campaign for global justice and equality.
We will act as a network node to help forge regional and international links between our partners to increase mutual support.
We will seek to link citizens South-South and South-North closer together by highlighting the common mutual and shared interests we have in creating a just and equal world and challenging global power imbalances.
We will campaign, independently and collaboratively, to influence key areas of public opinion in the North towards supporting our core aims.
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