Facilitating internal change
Each year, thousands of women’s rights, feminist and gender equality advocates and activists from around the world convene at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the NGO CSW Forum, in New York City. Governments are also represented at the CSW Sessions, which is the United Nation’s largest annual gathering on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO CSW NY) convenes the annual NGO CSW Forum, which runs in parallel with each official UN CSW Session. NGO CSW NY works to ‘bridge the gap between global civil society, grassroots organisations, and the official UN CSW process in New York City’. Gender at Work was invited by NGO CSW NY to facilitate an internal online process with its staff and members, which would identify framing questions and generate options for its future organisational arrangements. The ultimate aim of the organisation being to transform and expand its capacity to strategically and sustainably support the activists and advocates who participate in CSW each year.
Between May and June 2023, Gender at Work conducted extensive focus groups and interviews with more than 100 individuals, spanning representatives from civil society organisations, youth groups, activists, UN member-states, and various stakeholders and came up with a presentation of the findings for the Committee.
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