This toolkit is based on a women’s rights approach to advocacy which recognizes the need for longer term structural change if women’s rights are to be fulfilled.

It is intended to support the advocacy planning of women’s rights organisations, and coalitions, alliances and networks who want to advocate for change.

It is also intended for broader advocacy organisations who want to prioritise women’s rights and gender equality in their advocacy work, and to do so in ways that strengthen the work of women’s rights organizations and movements.

This toolkit builds on Womankind Worldwide’s Women’s Rights Advocacy Toolkit (2011) and you will find references to this earlier toolkit for further reading and additional tools within each section. This toolkit incorporates new approaches, analysis and tools which have been developed through advocacy planning practice and learning by the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), Womankind Worldwide and partner organizations and the contributions of other coalitions and alliances over the past nine years.