A route from a local case to an international decision
Your case enters one verified system and moves through the same procedure as every other case, with a named contact inside Womafreesm and a decision that arrives with its reason.
Partnership with the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly for women's organizations
Partnership is free, and your local cases get a route to international decisions.
Discuss partnership How admission worksWhen local work continues at the international level
The Womafreesm World Women's Assembly is an international alliance of women, women's organizations, experts, lawyers, researchers and institutions that help each other seek changes in the laws, standards and decisions that shape women's lives. It accepts partner applications from organizations in any country and signs memoranda of cooperation. Partnership is free and nonexclusive; partners keep their mission, governance and public statements.
A women's organization can spend years helping women with the consequences of the same problem, while its cases, data and expertise often stay divided by borders, languages, grant cycles and local agendas. Changing the cause of the problem often takes more than one organization has on its own: experience from other countries, an independent assessment, research and a route to the institution that sets the rule.
"We have the cases. What turns them into a change in the rule?"
The Assembly links these steps: your local knowledge gets a professional check, a clear result and an institution that can consider the proposed solution.
What your organization receives
An evidence base behind your own topics
Verified anonymized cases, data and research that back a local issue instead of an appeal to conscience, and international context: how the same problem looks in other countries.
Working groups and joint products
Country and thematic working groups, and a part in creating international documents, standards and recommendations that then go to institutions in the name of the whole Assembly.
An equal voice
Every participant with voting status has one vote, and no contribution changes its weight. Voting rights depend on the role, status and level of activity of each participant.
Depending on the task, the result can be an evidence review, a recommendation for public or professional institutions, an expert opinion, a joint study or a coordinated submission.
What your organization keeps
Your organization stays a separate legal and institutional entity and keeps its own mission, governance, staff, finances, programs, legal obligations, public statements and internal decisions. Partnership is nonexclusive: a country, a city or a professional field stays open to other partners.
Your name and logo appear on Assembly materials only after you agree in writing. The name and logo of the Assembly can be used only with its written permission.
You speak about your work and your position in your own name. Speaking for the Assembly needs a separate mandate.
Partnership is free. Any financial support is voluntary and kept apart from admission, and it changes nothing in a partner's status or voice.
Data about the women in your cases is shared only to the extent a task needs, through an agreed channel, and used only for the agreed work. No one is named in public without explicit consent.
Your organization stays free to criticize laws and propose reforms. Partner status and the Assembly's logo are not used in election campaigns or for any party or candidate.
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Who can apply
Organizations from any country whose work fits the mission of the Assembly can apply: women's and human rights organizations, charitable foundations, universities, research centers, professional associations, legal, educational and media organizations and other institutions.
An organization without registration can apply too: describe how your group is organized. A missing registration number is not, by itself, a reason to turn down an application.
In the application, show what experience your organization has and which shared task it is ready to take on.
In the memorandum, each partner gets a category: Academic, NGO, Research, Legal, Media or Strategic Partner. You do not need to choose it in the application.
Partner status is not given to political parties, election campaigns, extremist organizations, or organizations that call for violence, systematically spread disinformation, discriminate or act against the Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy.
What the Assembly expects from a partner
Reply on time
Reply to messages from the Assembly within the time you agreed on, so that the joint work on each case keeps moving.
Agreed initiatives
Take part in the initiatives, consultations or working groups of the Assembly that we agreed on as your first steps.
Honest information
Give honest information about cases, share the important facts you know and support an independent check of materials.
Conflicts of interest
Disclose any conflict of interest before you take on a task, and update what you disclosed when your situation changes.
Introducing other organizations is welcome and voluntary.
How admission works
Every organization that joins the Assembly as a partner follows the same admission procedure, whatever its category. The Executive Director of the Assembly reviews each application.
1. Application
You describe your organization and the joint work you want to do. The second part of the form opens after the initial check. The form links to the four founding documents, so you can read the main rules first.
2. Check
We check the information about your organization and its work, its fit with the mission of the Assembly, its relevant experience and any conflict of interest. If something is unclear, we ask you to clarify it.
3. Decision
You receive one of four decisions: approval, approval with conditions, further review after clarifications, or refusal with an explanation. You can ask for a new review within 30 calendar days of the decision.
4. Memorandum and Partnership Terms
After approval, both sides sign a memorandum of cooperation, and you accept the Partnership Terms. The memorandum records the category of your partnership. It creates no financial obligations for either side.
5. First steps together
Together we plan the first steps of cooperation: cases, consultations, working groups or other joint initiatives. From the day both sides sign the memorandum, your organization is a partner of the Assembly.
6. Joint work and review
You work on the agreed initiatives and keep the Partnership Terms and the Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy. From time to time, the Assembly may review how the partnership is working in practice.
Apply for partnership
Write to us through the contact form. Someone from the team will reply to the address you give.
Discuss partnershipFAQ
View All1. How can a local women's organization take its cases to an international level?
A local women's organization can take its cases to an international level through partnership with the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly, which is free and open to organizations from any country. Its cases follow one written procedure, and each decision comes with its reason. Joint work on these cases can produce an evidence review, an expert opinion, a joint study, a coordinated submission or a recommendation for public or professional institutions.
2. What does a women's organization give up when it joins an international network, and can it work with other networks at the same time?
A women's organization that partners with the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly keeps its legal, operational and institutional independence, mission, governance, finances, staff and public statements. Partnership is nonexclusive: it can work with other networks if it keeps agreements and discloses conflicts of interest. Either side can end it with at least 30 days' written notice; the Assembly can suspend or end it after a breach of the Partnership Terms.
3. Which organizations can apply for partnership?
Any organization from any country whose work fits the Assembly's mission can apply, from a local women's group to a university or a media organization. Registration is not required to apply. Political parties, election campaigns, extremist organizations and groups that call for violence, systematically spread disinformation or discriminate cannot receive partner status.
4. What happens after we send the application?
The first part of your application goes to the Executive Director of the Assembly for an initial check. If it passes, the second part of the form opens. Then you receive one of four decisions: approval, approval with conditions, further review after clarifications, or refusal with an explanation. After approval, both sides sign the memorandum, you accept the Partnership Terms, and together we plan the first steps.
5. When does our organization become a partner?
Your organization becomes a partner on the day the memorandum of cooperation is signed by both sides. Both sides sign it after a positive decision or, for an approval with conditions, once those conditions are met, and the first joint steps are agreed at the same time. Voting rights in the Assembly depend on the role, status and level of activity of each participant.
6. Can our organization speak on behalf of the Assembly?
Not as a partner alone. Partner status does not give the right to speak for the Assembly: that needs a separate official mandate for a named person, with a set subject, scope and term. Your organization still speaks about its own work, its position and the partnership in its own name. Who grants a mandate is set out in the Assembly Statute.
7. Do we have to announce the partnership publicly?
No. You decide whether your partnership with the Assembly becomes public. Your name, logo and a description of the cooperation appear only after you agree in writing. If you speak about it, you use one of the wordings set in the memorandum: "Partner of Womafreesm World Women's Assembly", "Assembly Partner" or the name of your partner category. Using the Assembly's name and logo requires its written permission.
8. What happens to the data of the women in our cases?
In the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly, data about the women in your cases is shared only as far as a task needs, through an agreed channel, for agreed work only. We check that you may share a woman's details. Access depends on task and role. Partners and experts abroad receive only the necessary minimum, with contractual safeguards. A woman is named publicly only with her explicit consent.
Tell us what problem you see in your work and what your organization can bring to solving it.