The Women-Led Forum (WLF) is a comprehensive platform that strengthens volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations in Syria. WLF unifies efforts, enables resource- and knowledge-sharing, and builds institutional and technical capacities to drive sustained progress toward women’s rights and justice.
Launched in three governorates—Damascus, Aleppo, and Latakia—WLF has now reached Hama and is set to expand to additional governorates.
Why WLF?
Smaller and grassroots groups often face the greatest barriers to coordination and to accessing pathways of influence. WLF provides a practical framework tailored to these actors: flexible networking, shared tools, and a unified advocacy voice that elevates community priorities and women’s rights.
Objectives
Empower and coordinate volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations through a shared platform.
Increase influence on national and humanitarian decisions and policies in ways that advance women’s rights and justice.
Strengthen institutional and technical capacities (strategic planning, light-touch governance, activity management, and effective communication).
Core Components
Coordination & Networks: Regular, low-cost meetings, topic-focused working groups, and an open resource library.
Advocacy & Policy: Joint briefs and position notes, and facilitated dialogue with relevant actors at local and national levels.
Capacity-Building: Practical trainings tailored to small organizations (project cycle, monitoring & documentation, safeguarding and compliance).
Learning & MEAL: Simple, useful tracking of participation and outcomes, plus periodic lessons-learned updates.
Who’s in the Platform Today?
WLF is primarily composed of volunteer teams, grassroots community initiatives, and small women-led organizations, while remaining open to collaboration with larger NGOs where complementary roles can amplify impact.
Expected Results
Short-term: A flexible coordination platform that fits small actors; improved communication channels and resource-sharing; a shared advocacy agenda.
Medium-term: Greater participation of grassroots groups in local and national dialogues; concise, targeted policy/advocacy notes developed jointly.
Long-term: Tangible changes in policies and practices that uphold women’s rights and justice, with stronger representation of women’s priorities in decision-making spaces.
Target Groups
Volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations across Syria; civil society networks; humanitarian actors; and decision-makers.
Compliance & Values
We adhere to a Code of Conduct; Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; Child Safeguarding; Accountability to Affected People & Complaints and Response Mechanism; Anti-Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering; and Data Protection. Stories and images are published only with informed consent and without revealing identities.
The Women-Led Forum (WLF) is a comprehensive platform that strengthens volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations in Syria. WLF unifies efforts, enables resource- and knowledge-sharing, and builds institutional and technical capacities to drive sustained progress toward women’s rights and justice.
Launched in three governorates—Damascus, Aleppo, and Latakia—WLF has now reached Hama and is set to expand to additional governorates.
Why WLF?
Smaller and grassroots groups often face the greatest barriers to coordination and to accessing pathways of influence. WLF provides a practical framework tailored to these actors: flexible networking, shared tools, and a unified advocacy voice that elevates community priorities and women’s rights.
Objectives
Empower and coordinate volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations through a shared platform.
Increase influence on national and humanitarian decisions and policies in ways that advance women’s rights and justice.
Strengthen institutional and technical capacities (strategic planning, light-touch governance, activity management, and effective communication).
Core Components
Coordination & Networks: Regular, low-cost meetings, topic-focused working groups, and an open resource library.
Advocacy & Policy: Joint briefs and position notes, and facilitated dialogue with relevant actors at local and national levels.
Capacity-Building: Practical trainings tailored to small organizations (project cycle, monitoring & documentation, safeguarding and compliance).
Learning & MEAL: Simple, useful tracking of participation and outcomes, plus periodic lessons-learned updates.
Who’s in the Platform Today?
WLF is primarily composed of volunteer teams, grassroots community initiatives, and small women-led organizations, while remaining open to collaboration with larger NGOs where complementary roles can amplify impact.
Expected Results
Short-term: A flexible coordination platform that fits small actors; improved communication channels and resource-sharing; a shared advocacy agenda.
Medium-term: Greater participation of grassroots groups in local and national dialogues; concise, targeted policy/advocacy notes developed jointly.
Long-term: Tangible changes in policies and practices that uphold women’s rights and justice, with stronger representation of women’s priorities in decision-making spaces.
Target Groups
Volunteer teams, grassroots initiatives, and small women-led organizations across Syria; civil society networks; humanitarian actors; and decision-makers.
Compliance & Values
We adhere to a Code of Conduct; Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; Child Safeguarding; Accountability to Affected People & Complaints and Response Mechanism; Anti-Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering; and Data Protection. Stories and images are published only with informed consent and without revealing identities.
