The IWC’s mission is to ensure that women are included in all decision-making and leadership processes.
Checking whether women and girls participate in budgeting, public involvement, and other civic activities are some of the core indicators that IWC examines.
This space aims to mainstream women and, where gaps exist, to build their capacity by training and equipping them with skills and knowledge for effective lobbying and advocacy during various international and national processes. Women are looking for spaces to gather and express their own demands; this will allow for more active participation in their own communities and in the national indigenous movement, with their own voice and a higher level of leadership.
The grassroots gathering will be adopting human rights education giving women perspective and views on how to assess and strengthen social women movement and collective voices with grassroots women from pastoralists, hunter gatherers, women living with disabilities and fisher folks.
The conference brings together women leaders from national and county governments, grassroots women leaders, feminists, and human rights partners to validate and adopt a women roadmap/strategy for Indigenous women to leverage their opportunities and share their recommendations for use within county and national governments.
Indigenous women learn, provide input, and discuss possibilities to enhance women’s alliances and establish powerful movements that boost their resilience, visibility, and participation in monitoring and policy formation that affect women’s rights dialogues.
