Vision, Mission and Aims

Our vision is of a world where social justice and gender equality prevail and where all women and girls are able to realise their rights free from discrimination.

Our mission is to relieve poverty and promote well being by ensuring that international development policy and practice promotes gender equality and women and girls’ rights.  Our role is to improve the impact that UK development and donor organisations have on the lives of women and girls in developing countries by ensuring that their international development work promotes gender equality and women and girls’ rights.

The following strategic aims will guide the network’s work for 2010-2014.  Each aim has equal importance.

• Growing a strong inclusive network: To create and maintain a strong, effective and inclusive network.

• Setting an alternative agenda: To promote alternatives and solutions to current agendas and problems in women’s rights and gender equality and development.

• Building capacity of our members: To increase the capacity of members to advocate for gender equality and women’s rights.

• Influencing the Government: To strengthen the Government’s commitment, policy and practice on women’s rights and gender equality in its international work.

• Increasing the knowledge base: To generate, collate and disseminate a strong evidence-based knowledge base on women’s rights and gender equality and development .