The Loom: Our Feminist Advocacy Lab

The Loom is WEDO’s feminist advocacy lab and core policy and advocacy engine. It is where feminist analysis, movement strategy, and global policy engagement come together to advance gender justice, climate justice, and systemic change.

Through this work, WEDO supports advocates, partners, and movements to navigate complex global processes, shape political agendas, and push for stronger and more accountable outcomes across climate, environment, development, and economic governance spaces.

Our work includes:

• Policy analysis and briefings
• Negotiation tracking and strategy support
• Coalition and caucus coordination
• Trainings and political education
• Strategic convenings and movement infrastructure
• Advocacy tools, submissions, and talking points
• Direct engagement in multilateral processes and institutions

The goal is practical and political: helping feminist movements build influence, coordinate action, and shape decisions that affect people, communities, and the planet.

Why It Matters

Global decisions about climate finance, fossil fuels, debt, biodiversity, care systems, disaster response, and economic governance continue to shape people’s lives in deeply unequal ways. Yet feminist organizations and grassroots leaders are often excluded from the spaces where these decisions are made.

WEDO works alongside partners and movements to strengthen feminist influence in global governance, connect grassroots realities to international policy spaces, and push institutions toward more just, accountable, and transformative outcomes.

Advocacy in Practice

The Loom combines policy expertise with movement-centered advocacy. We work across short-term political opportunities and long-term systems change.

This includes:

• Supporting advocates participating in UN negotiations and decision-making spaces
• Producing accessible feminist policy analysis and strategy resources
• Coordinating collective advocacy across movements and constituencies
• Advancing feminist approaches to climate finance, care systems, just transition, and economic justice
• Building stronger connections between grassroots organizing and global policy advocacy
• Creating spaces for shared strategy, learning, and political alignment

Why “The Loom”?

The name reflects both the craft and the infrastructure of feminist advocacy. In weaving, the warp provides the structure and the weft moves through it, carrying pattern, color, and connection. The Loom plays a similar role: holding the infrastructure that allows feminist movements, policy expertise, grassroots leadership, and political strategy to come together with purpose.

It is not just a metaphor for connection. It is a way of describing the work of building alignment, strengthening coordination, and creating the shared advocacy infrastructure movements need to move through complex global policy spaces with clarity, power, and impact.

Areas of Policy Influence

We apply feminist analysis and advocacy across interconnected policy areas. These areas reflect where we concentrate our expertise and how we engage with global governance systems. They are not silos. Each informs and reinforces the others, including the economic systems such as tax, trade, and debt that shape environmental outcomes.

Connections to Our Broader Work

The Feminist Advocacy Lab underpins and connects our initiatives and partnerships.

It informs coalition advocacy strategies and negotiation engagement. It strengthens leadership development efforts such as the Women Delegates Fund. It grounds tools like the Gender Climate Tracker in real policy dynamics. It supports funding mechanisms like the Gender-Just Climate Solutions Scale Fund by linking solutions to systems change.

This is where our work to move power, money, and minds comes together.