02/11/2026
🇱🇧 Beirut, we came to connect, learn, and push for change.
Women Deliver was in Beirut to advance feminist foreign policy, strengthen regional collaboration, and turn gender equality commitments into action.
Together with the Governments of Spain and Mexico, the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, International Center for Research on Women, and The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, we joined conversations on what it takes to make feminist foreign policy truly accountable, consistent, and transformative.
📣 The main message was clear: governments must be held accountable for their obligations, and civil society organizations play a crucial role in making that happen. Their full, equal, meaningful, and effective participation is essential to shaping policies that reflect our demands and advance gender equality.
🤝 We also brought together feminist actors from across SWANA to explore how the Melbourne Declaration for Gender Equality can reflect regional realities, how the Transformation Collective can better support national-level movements and organization, and what collaboration can look like beyond the traditional paradigms that have shaped our sector.
One of our biggest takeaways? Building connections is part of the change itself. Organizations that had never met before connected, shared ideas, and began exploring new ways to work together.