Advancing Effective Coordination Among Women-Led Organizations in Sudan: A Practical Guide

This guide provides practical, user-friendly information on the importance of coordination in Sudan’s current context. It equips women-led organizations with a framework for proactive, gender-responsive coordination, informed by UN Women’s engagement and recent research highlighting challenges such as historical divisions, mistrust, generational gaps, and competition over resources.

Ultimately, the guide serves as both a learning tool and a catalyst for collaboration helping to build a cohesive and empowered women’s movement capable of addressing immediate crises and advancing long-term peace under UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

The initiative aims to strengthen the women-led peace movement in Sudan by improving coordination and collective action among women in civic, political, displaced, diaspora, and host communities. It seeks to ensure that Sudanese women, in all their diversity, meaningfully influence efforts to end the war and advance peacebuilding.

To achieve this, the project will build a strong knowledge base that reexamines coordination practices, working modalities, and mechanisms within women’s movements. It will promote dialogue among diverse groups to identify effective strategies for collaboration and communication. Through consultative workshops, women’s organizations and movements will jointly establish ethical guidelines and principles for coordination.

The initiative also aims to amplify women’s peace efforts through partnerships with UN Women media networks, ensuring visibility across local, regional, and international platforms.