Our strategies

WIDE is strengthening strategic alliance building between women´s organisations in the EU, broader Europe and the Global South. We are enhancing women´s capacities and political assertiveness to influence policy changes and initiate alternative economic practices. WIDE is taking advantage of existing spaces/platforms such as World Social Forum (WSF) and European Feminist Forum (EFF) to promote our agenda.

In our advocacy work, we apply an inside­-outside strategy. We are working within the institutions themselves, for example as part of official government delegations to international meetings. At the same time we are working from outside with other women´s organisations and alliances to increase pressure on policy and decision making and to hold governments accountable. 

WIDE is based on three pillars: WIDE as network, capacity building and lobbying, advocacy and awareness raising.