Women’s Learning Partnership is a partnership of 20 autonomous women’s rights organizations located throughout the Global South that promote women’s leadership, civic engagement, and human rights. They are an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
Women’s Learning Partnership helps individuals and organizations achieve their potential for promoting women’s advancement. Their training programs, advocacy campaigns, research, and publications reach tens of thousands of women and men each year.
WLP participates in a wide array of education and advocacy activities to raise awareness about women’s human rights, influence policy, and increase the visibility and impact of their partnership’s work on gender justice and equality. They collaborate with women’s organizations, social service organizations, legal advocates, government officials, and religious leaders on local, regional, and international human rights campaigns. They produce documentaries, publish books, and facilitate training workshops in dozens of languages to support the work of grassroots activists across the globe.
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
Founding Members