Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO), is a consortium formed by two prominent Southern Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) – Gender Links and ARROW and a renowned UK-based development firm, Mannion Daniels.

We share feminist values and a deep concern regarding the narrowing civic space, particularly for women and girls. Together, for five years from 2023 to 2027 , the consortium will work to ensure the voices of women and girls from the global south, in all their diversity, inform the decisions and policies that affect our lives. WOSSO will support and facilitate women’s rights organisations and women leaders, to ensure their meaningful engagement in key advocacy meetings.
Download the WOSSO pamphlet.

Vision

A world in which the voices of women and girls from the global south, in all our diversity, inform the decisions and policies that affect our lives.

WOSSO will achieve its vision by

• Amplifying the voices of women and girls from the global south to advocate for our rights.
• Enhancing skills and knowledge for women’s rights organisations to meaningfully participate in making change.

Values

• Collaboration
• Movement-building
• Intersectionality
• Challenging traditional power structures
• Centring lived experience