WomenPower2030

Highlights from our 2025 Annual Planning Meeting

Nairobi, Kenya | April 29th-30th, 2025

We go to Kenya!

We were very happy to attend the 2025 Annual Planning Meeting of the Women Power 2030 (WP2030) project, held in Nairobi, Kenya. We joined our global partners FEMNET, WEP, APWLD, and FEIM , to critically reflect, review progress, and collaboratively shape strategies for the second year of implementation.

Co-funded by the European Union, the Women Power 2030 initiative is dedicated to advancing gender equality, climate justice, and women’s leadership through coordinated advocacy, campaigning, and capacity strengthening.  Co-funded by the European Union, the Women Power 2030 initiative is dedicated to advancing gender equality, climate justice, and women’s leadership through coordinated advocacy, campaigning, and capacity strengthening. Read more here. 

Set against a backdrop of increasing geopolitical instability, shrinking civic space, and challenging financing conditions, this meeting reaffirmed the resilience of feminist movements and the urgency of collaborative, adaptive strategies. 

Key outcomes  

  • 2024 Reflections and Goal Setting for 2025 
  • Revised Impact Indicator Framework- endorsed to guide national-level advocacy in 10 countries, focused on gender-sensitive policy reform and implementation 
  • Alignment on Advocacy Planning and Campaign Coordination 
  • Decentralized Capacity Strengthening Initiatives 
  • Risk Assessment and Mitigation Planning 

2024 Reflections 

As a group we reflected on our collective achievements and challenges from the first year of the project, identifying success stories, barriers, and key lessons to inform stronger strategies for 2025 per organisation, and as a whole. Discussions emphasised the importance of flexibility, cross-regional learning, and the alignment of future goals with feminist values. 

The session revisited WP2030’s core framework, centring women’s rights, climate justice, and inclusive leadership to lay the foundations for sustained collaborative action. 

 

Impact Indicators  

Ten priority countries were confirmed for national-level policy mapping and baseline assessments. These efforts aim to support the advancement of gender-sensitive legal frameworks and the measurement of advocacy outcomes through to 2027. We collaboratively defined key action points with our partners for the next implementation phase, ensuring alignment with each organisation’s ongoing advocacy initiatives. 

Advocacy Planning and Campaign Coordination 

Our partners and WECF team all shared our diverse experiences from 2024 campaigns, showcasing innovative approaches such as community radio, youth-led digital advocacy, and feminist storytelling. Challenges included limited digital access and language barriers.  

To build on these efforts and strengthen collective impact in 2025, we along with our partners committed to: 

  • Launching a joint global campaign in September 2025 
  • Producing shared online content 
  • Strengthening data tracking and evaluation frameworks.  

Capacity Strengthening 

We agreed that the needs assessment process should be decentralized, so that each organization can tailor their approach to their local context, language, and priorities. 

Specific capacity strengthening activities for 2025 identified included:   

  • Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advocacy, data privacy, and feminist digital justice  
  • Funding diversification in a polycrisis context  
  • Study sessions on blue economy and digital trade  
  • Climate justice and violence prevention webinars  

Risk Assessment and Mitigation 

We discussed and identified potential political, economic, operational, and environmental risk areas that could impact feminist advocacy and community work in their respective regions.  

Key identified risks included: 

  • Restrictive economic policies that constrain civic space 
  • Inflexible leadership unwilling to engage on sensitive issues, such as minority rights and gender-based violence 
  • Escalation of gender-based violence due to political or social tensions 
  • Environmental accidents, climate-related disasters, and displacement 

 

In response, we all proposed risk mitigation measures and developed flexible strategies to help ensure continuity and provide support to those most at risk.

Looking ahead 

The 2025 Annual Planning Meeting reaffirmed the collective power of feminist movements to drive meaningful and lasting change. By discussing shared strategies and forming strong partnerships, Women Power 2030 is aligned and focused on continuing to advocate for gender equality, climate justice and the rights of women in all their diversity and communities in vulnerable positions worldwide.

 

We are all excited for what is to come in the rest of 2025, and beyond. 

To get updates about the project, you can learn more here.