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WELDD

The Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation (WELDD) programme was jointly developed by Shirkat Gah- Women’s Resource Centre (SG), Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), and the Institute for Women’s Empowerment (IWE) following remarkable changes in the ways people around the world express their demands for freedom, equality and justice. The programme's mission is to support women’s empowerment and to boost capacity to challenge inequality worldwide by nurturing women’s leadership. Working with women’s rights activists across the Global South, our goal is to create transformative and sustainable feminist leadership in countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia including Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Tunisia.

The overarching goal of WELDD is to build women’s leadership by advancing equal rights and opportunities for women and girls. This was done through the delivery of activities under four thematic areas:

  1. Public and Political participation;
  2. Peace and security;
  3. Culturally justified violence against women (CVAW); and
  4. Land and economic rights.

For full details of this programme please visit the WELDD portal.