About WD2023

The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) took place in-person in Kigali, Rwanda, as well as virtually, from 17-20 July 2023. We convened 6,300 people in Kigali and 200,000+ people online through the virtual Conference and six-month Global Dialogue leading up to the Conference.

As one of the largest multi-sectoral convenings to advance gender equality, the Women Deliver 2023 Conference and Global Dialogue were co-created by grassroots advocates, multilateral governments, the private sector, philanthropies, and youth, including from and representing communities facing systemic discrimination.

With sexual and reproductive health and rights at our core, we centered intersectional feminist principles, to address compounding issues impacting girls and women — from climate change, to gender-based violence, to unpaid care work — and collectively identify and action evidence-based solutions.

We enhanced our collective power by championing the leadership of grassroots advocates, connecting advocates with decision-makers, and sharing key advocacy strategies. We came together to break barriers, address challenges, and identify opportunities to advance gender equality and improve the wellbeing of girls and women, in all their intersecting identities.

The theme of WD2023 was Spaces, Solidarity, and Solutions. WD2023 enabled inclusive and co-created spaces that foster solidarity for sustainable solutions on gender equality.

Check out the Women Deliver 2023 Conference factsheet and the Post Conference Report to learn more!

 

WD2023’s objectives:

  1. Catalyze Collective Action to Advance Gender Equality
  2. Hold Leaders Accountable
  3. Empower the Feminist Movement
  4. Reframe Who Leads
  5. Create Space

The vision, theme, and objectives of the Conference were selected by the WD2023 Advisory Group, in consultation with over 5,000 advocates — spanning 166 countries, generations, and sectors — who participated in design sprints and Women Deliver’s Global Community Consultation.

WHO PARTICIPATED IN WD2023:

6,300+

feminists representing 170 countries

240+

journalists and content creators

600

scholarship recipients

87+

sponsors and funders

10,000+

people joined us online
  • A new commitment to working with others to more effectively counter the anti-rights movement with a focus on the most neglected sexual and reproductive health areas.

  • A campaign launched by over 40 organizations to close the gender nutrition gap, alongside a co-created Action Agenda, that calls for transformative actions from governments to improve women’s and girls’ nutrition.

  • The RESPECT Women website, an online platform that aims to drive concrete actions to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls, launched by The World Health Organization (WHO), together with UN Women, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

  • Canada announced more than $200 million in funding as part of Canada’s SheSOARS initiative, funded as part of the 10-Year Commitment to Global Health and Rights. Some of the money will be allocated towards the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and the Girls Not Brides project.

  • The Kigali Call to Action: United for Women and Girls’ Bodily Autonomy announced by UNFPA to accelerate investments and actions, with women-led organizations and the feminist movement at the center.

  • A new Women Deliver Emerging Leaders Program that will put more trust-based funding into the hands of young people and ensure that they have the knowledge, resources, supportive ecosystem, and leadership opportunities to achieve their gender equality and sexual health and reproductive advocacy goals.