You can also organise your very own Feast event! Join us for a feast@home or feast@work to support women in developing countries and celebrate International Women's Day.

Hosting your own Feast is easy! Simply invite your friends or co-workers to share a meal at home or work. To raise money for IWDA, attending guests donate the money they would usually spend on 'eating out' to IWDA. Easy, fun and worthwhile!

Feast recognises that access to affordable, sufficient, safe and nutritious food (food security) is critical to human well being. Today, nearly 1 in 7 people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. This makes hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide - greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Of the most chronically hungry, over 60% are women and girls.

As a fundraising event, Feast provides vital funds to support the work of IWDA; we recognise that food security depends on the empowerment of women. IWDA Feast acknowledges that: 'without women, we all go hungry'. Women not only cook food, they sow, reap and harvest it. It is estimated that 8 out of 10 people engaged in farming in Africa are women and 6 out of 10 in Asia.

So we invite you to come and celebrate the sustaining work of women worldwide with IWDA

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IWDA Strategic Directions

IWDA has developed a Strategic Directions 2008-2013 document to guide our work over the next five years. The cornerstones of this work are: pathways to engaged and informed citizenship; policy influence and gender justice. There are six program goals and three cross-cutting issues designed to focus our work in catalysing transformational change for women and girls. These are supported by 7 organisational change goals to help build a more robust, responsive and effective organisation. We hope you will be part of this journey, with our vision for a just and sustainable world for women.

Breakthrough
Melbourne, 2-3 December 2009

A powerful new initiative to benefit the world's most vulnerable Asia Pacific Breakthrough: The Women, Faith and Development Summit to End Global Poverty will take place in Melbourne at Federation Square on 2-3 December 2009. This ambitious global Summit is an initiative spearheaded in the Asia-Pacific region by International Women's Development Agency, in collaboration with key faith, women's and development organisations from both the government and non-government sectors.  

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Gifts of Change

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Don't risk giving unwanted gifts! Give Gifts of Change!

Gifts of Change empower women to take control of their futures and live safer, happier, more fulfilled lives.

Celebrate your special occasion with gifts that create positive change for women and their families in developing countries. Give Gifts of Change!

Programs

Over the next five years. IWDA will focus its work on six key areas that are central to gender equality – livelihood and economic empowerment; safety and security; social, physical and mental health; education; environmental sustainability and civil and political participation.

This work will contribute to achieving our overall goal of catalysing gender justice and inclusion, globally. Our organisational goals will ensure that IWDA can do its work in an effective, efficient and ethical manner. A key part of our success will be using quality systems and approaches to monitor and evaluate our performance and then use the learning to improve and adapt our work program.

Our programs focus on :

• Access to Education and Information
• Economic Justice
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion
• Leadership and Participation

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