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As we edge closer to World YWCA Day on 24th April 2024, the anticipation and excitement within our community grow. This year, we stand at a pivotal juncture, marking nearly two centuries of relentless advocacy, community engagement, and the promotion of gender equality by the YWCA movement. It’s a reflection of our collective resilience and ...

The World YWCA’s Bullet and Dove Initiative is hosting an essential webinar to spotlight the critical challenges that women and girls encounter in conflict zones across regions such as the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and others. This event is dedicated to uncovering the severe impact these conflicts have on their health and well-being ...

On Monday, 4th March, the World YWCA joined ecumenical partners and friends to observe the World Day of Prayer, which this year, focused on Palestine. The hybrid event, themed “I Beg You… Bear With One Another In Love,” transcended borders to underscore the critical need for unity amidst the ongoing violence and oppression in Gaza. ...

We’re organising a special training session with the support of YGlobal and Norwegian Church Aid specifically for women and young women to help you understand feminist funding and learn how to apply for grants like a pro. Grassroots gender practitioners worldwide face a funding challenge. According to research by Frida The Young Feminist Fund, and ...

Join us from November 25th to December 10th for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an annual international civil society-led campaign. Starting on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and concluding on Human Rights Day, it highlights violence against women as a pervasive breach of human rights worldwide. Originating ...

Join us from 12 to 18 November As we approach the Week of Prayer and World Fellowship in 2023, we invite communities worldwide to come together from November 12 to 18 to reflect on the theme, ‘Seeds to Blossoms: Cultivating Hope and Love in Solidarity.’ This theme celebrates our unity within the global and intergenerational ...

16 days of activism against gender-based violence is a global international campaign annually held between November 25- December 10 to raise awareness and advocate for action against GBV.  This year we invite you to join leaders, advocates, activists around the world to advocate to End Violence against Women. In support of this initiative, the United Nations Secretary-General’s ...

We are pleased to announce that the Young Women Leadership Cohort Programme 2022 is now open for applications!  The programme will provide an opportunity for up to ten young women from the YWCA movement to experience the international community-building, work and reach of the World YWCA. Building on the programme’s success and learnings in 2020 and 2021, and considering ongoing ...

After working virtually together for about two years, the YW4A partners finally met face to face for the first time in Nyeri County in Kenya this past June. The meeting brought together key YW4A staff from all 8 core consortium partners after a rigorous journey of proposal development, programme  inception and kickstarting operations during the ...

Every year on April 24, YWCAs around the world celebrate World YWCA Day. For 160 years, YWCA leaders have taken action in communities to make human rights a reality. In a recent in-depth study done by World YWCA on leadership, many #YWCALeaders shared that they believe “leadership is influencing, guiding and motivating women and young women to realise their potential and ...