What We Do
UPPO’s power lies in its ability to facilitate and connect diverse movements to
global processes, ensuring that women’s voices are heard and women’s leadership
is advanced in these spheres.
UPPO’s Role
UPPO’s power lies in its ability to facilitate and connect diverse movements to
global processes, ensuring that women’s voices are heard and women’s leadership
is advanced in these spheres.
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Technical Advisor : Advising government and UN agencies on implementation of an
intersectional approach to sustainable development in policy and practice -
Advocate: Leading global advocacy for women’s human rights and justice across policy
spaces -
Facilitator and Convener: Partnering with, and bringing together diverse
organizations/individuals to demand a just and sustainable future across policy spaces -
Trainer: Delivering leadership development, orientation to complex processes and advocacy
skills training to hundreds of women each year -
Organizer: Administering logistical and coordination support for women advocates to
participate and engage in international processes and campaigns, and connecting partner
organizations to small project grants -
Knowledge Creator: Analyzing processes, actions, and outcomes and producing and
promoting knowledge products
Principles of Implementation
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Link to spaces and platforms for intersectional feminist movement building towards a
healthy, peaceful planet. -
Advocate for transparent, democratic, accountable and effective global governance that
provides space for civil society input at all levels. -
Practice inclusion and prioritize the participation of indigenous women, women with
disabilities, women of color, LGBTQI and young feminists/women’s rights activists,
particularly from developing / least developed countries.
UPPO Strategies
UPPO values its diverse collaborations and partnerships across the globe with women’s
organizations; environmental, development and human rights organizations; governments;
and intergovernmental organizations, including the United Nations. The UPPO strategies
reflect and draw from this, both building on and building up UPPO’s strengths.
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Link to spaces and platforms for intersectional feminist movement building towards a
healthy, peaceful planet. -
Advocate for transparent, democratic, accountable and effective global governance that
provides space for civil society input at all levels. -
Practice inclusion and prioritize the participation of indigenous women, women with
disabilities, women of color, LGBTQI and young feminists/women’s rights activists,
particularly from developing / least developed countries.