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IWDA is an Australian NGO which has worked for more than 30 years to progress the rights of women and girls.
Five goals guide their work :
- Promote women’s leadership and participation
- Strengthen women’s safety and security
- Accelerate women’s economic empowerment
- Advance systemic change
- Ensure organisational sustainability and accountability
It is an ongoing part of IWDA’s work to develop practical, engaging evidence-based tools to assist policy makers and practitioners to act, advocate and impact policy.
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), in partnership with 18 women’s rights organisations, collaborates to deliver the Women’s Action for Voice and Empowerment (WAVE) program in five countries.
With powerful support from the Government of the Netherlands, WAVE increases the voice, agency, representation and diversity of women in leadership and movements, striving for gender equality.
WAVE’s goal is for women to lead transformative, sustainable change towards gender equality through strategic feminist engagement. IWDA is committed to ongoing, long-term partnerships with women’s organisations in Asia and the Pacific, and builds on partners’ skills and interests to provide capacity strengthening tools, resources and support to build WAVE partners’ effectiveness and resilience.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.