Women voices first in Iraq

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of grassroots women-led feminist and women’s rights organizations across Iraq to implement programs addressing self-defined Women Peace and Security (WPS) priorities. Project activities include: (1) providing targeted training to local organizations to develop technical and programmatic capacities; (2) providing flexible funding to locally-led WPS initiatives; (3) facilitating and strengthening network development so that women-led women’s rights organizations and individual women activists can share best practices and learn; and (4) supporting the joint development of a localized WPS agenda to lobby and advocate the government around key policies and their implementation.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) provided funding and capacity building to implement initiatives addressing self-defined WPS priorities to 6 local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); and (2) increased 25 local CSOs’ capacity to deliver peacebuilding programs.