Strategies

WIDE+ works through interconnected strategies of feminist:

  • analysis and capacity building
  • movement building
  • advocacy

Together with members, partners, and feminists across Europe, WIDE+ promotes feminist alternatives for social, economic, and environmental justice.

WIDE+ works through interconnected strategies of feminist analysis, capacity building, movement building and advocacy. We engage with the EU and European countries across a wide range of issues.

Edme Dominguez representing WIDE+ at the Domestic Advisory Groups (DAGs) and Civil Society Forum linked to the EU–Central America Association Agreement, 15 to 17 June 2026

Explore our strategies of intervention

Strengthening feminist network building:

We aim to

  • Create strategic catalyst and reflective spaces for feminisms
  • Enable new partnerships and collaborations and deepen current ones
  • Coordinate collaborations, interlinkages and alliances

How?

  • Transnational thematic and ad-hoc Working Groups
  • Webinars, forums and strategic meetings 
  • Making feminist activism visible through media, social media and artivism, 
  • Coalition building as well as Working Group and partnership coordination
  • Supporting national and grassroots feminist organisations and initiatives
  • Solidarity actions and public mobilisation making diversity in feminisms visible

Influencing policies through outreach, advocacy, and lobby:

We aim to

  • Strengthen, initiate, and maintain collaborations, alliances, and partnerships
  • Engage with European decision-makers
  • Amplify the work and perspectives of women and gender non-conforming persons in the global South, Eastern Europe, and migrants

How?

  • Transnational thematic and ad-hoc Working Groups
  • Research and policy recommendations informed by grassroots experiences 
  • Presenting recommendations in public consultations and expert sessions 
  • Advocacy and lobbying at the EU level
  • Information sharing among national women’s rights civil society

Building the capacities of feminists and other relevant stakeholders

We aim to

  • Develop feminist knowledge and analysis on inequalities, possible solutions, lessons learned, and best practices. We focus especially on strategic issues that are not yet well covered within feminist networks in Europe. 
  • Make feminist knowledge more accessible through popular education tools and other interactive formats

How?

  • Capacity building and knowledge building on strategic topics where feminist analysis from a European perspective is limited 
  • Research, briefings, factsheets and position papers
  • Toolkits, surveys and educational resources
  • Webinars, podcasts and videos
  • Strategic communication for information sharing and awareness raising
  • Transnational learning and exchange activities
  • Popular education methodologies

Financial and organisational sustainability as well as ethical and horizontal governance

How?

  • Effective financial and operational management 
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Reviewing and adapting governance and operations to changes
  • Tools for financial collaboration with partners and members
  • Feminist leadership reflection and practice

Strategic action plan 2025-2028

WIDE+’s vision and mission for the coming years is to place rights, intersectional and inclusive equality and social justice as well as reproduction/care at the centre of the economy. 

This vision is based on a socio-economic model that prioritises care and well-being over endless economic growth. It supports societies living within planetary boundaries and a political model rooted in democracy, transparency and inclusion. 

In this context, our programmatic focus is to promote feminist economic approaches connected to an analysis of power relations in a broader political context of global relations and challenges for democracy and civil society participation.

Programmatic focus between 2025-2027

  • Enable migrant feminist coalition building and organising in Europe
  • Promote feminist narratives, coalitions and collaborations across Europe, in particular on current topics of concern: militarism and peace, transnational feminist solidarity and the impact of EU policies
  • Address intersectional discrimination in Artificial Intelligence, in particular in labour issues
  • Promote feminist alternatives in trade policy
  • Raise awareness on gender and climate justice
  • Expand feminist economic literacy and training

Some WIDE members at a meeting in South Spain April, 2015

Webinar on 18 June 2025 Under Threat in Europe Democracy Feminisms and Womens Rights

Crosscutting issues

  • Promote intersectional feminist approaches and diversity in our activism and actions
  • Analyse complex patterns and narratives of discrimination intersecting with gender discrimination, including migration 
  • Create spaces for shared analysis and exchange on democratic challenges affecting people and civil society, in particular barriers to democratic participation and the shrinking of public spaces, speech and resources 
  • Promote reflections on feminist responses to ultra-conservative backlashes and geopolitical developments.