Resources
​Building Coalitions and Collaborative Platforms
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Mpanzi Empowering Women and Girls establishes village-based coalitions and collaboratives to end violence against women and girls, promote economic empowerment and livelihoods, and educate girls and young women. Visit Mpanzi Empowering Women and Girls website. Listen to the stories of women and girls on YouTube.
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The World Vision Global Learning Forums are a series of learning events that bring together diverse stakeholders to share knowledge, promising practices, learning, and tools for development and humanitarian relief. Read feature news in the New Times on World Vision Global Learning Forum.
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The Women, Faith, and Development Alliance (WFDA) established a collaborative platform and a powerful coalition that increased political will and action to reduce poverty. It was a unique partnership of faith, development, and women’s organizations that united the moral authority and expertise of these three communities in common cause to secure breakthroughs in policy and expanded budget commitments by governments, multilaterals, and donors.​​​​​ Read feature news in the Philanthropy News Digest.​ Download the Toolkit on WFDA Breakthrough Coalition Building. View list of Breakthrough Summit Speakers and Partners. Read the Mosaic Newsletter.
​Designing Strategy and Training
The Restoring Dignity Toolkit: This toolkit offers religious leaders and communities the tools to act together in partnership within and across faiths to promote education, advocacy, and action to defend the dignity and rights of women and girls. The development of this toolkit was a process of collaboration among people of faith, religious leaders and secular multi-stakeholder partners through a series of activities, network building, education and training. Funding partners included the Ford Foundation, USAID Health Policy Initiative, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and UN Women. Read feature details on End Violence Now. Download the Restoring Dignity Toolkit.​​
Regional bodies like ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) can help improve early warning and response systems relating to conflict and natural disasters. Academic institutions such as World Learning's SIT (School for International Training) can strengthen knowledge and skills on peacebuilding and conflict transformation across cultures through education and training of diverse cohorts of learners. Read more about ECOWAS' Early Warning and Response. Read more about SIT ​Experiential Approaches and Learning Outcomes.
​Promoting Networking and Learning
The Guide for Building Women's Networks offers the tools and ideas to support women of faith in gathering together, establishing a collective vision for social transformation, and creating change at all levels. The issues these networks choose to address are not confined to problems that involve women; they are problems that impact society as a whole. Read the Guide for Building Women's Networks.
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Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation: This toolkit is designed to provide practical guidance and tools to support staff in integrating GESI perspectives in all stages of project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation. The goal is to enhance the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of World Vision’s work in humanitarian relief and development. Read the World Vision DME Toolkit. Read more on related World Vision's Reference Guides
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Home Is Us book signing - Storytelling to mark International Women's Day 2022, Washington USA
Mama the Protector. Mama the Agitator. Mama the Educator.