WRC research into women’s organisations working locally

• Does your organisation work locally?
• Are you engaged with your Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) or other local networks, such as your local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP)?
• Are you trying to influence your local priorities, through your Sustainable Community Strategy, National Indicator targets in your Local Area Agreement (LAA), your local Gender Equality Scheme, or some other way?
• Are you lobbying your local council or councillors, your PCT or other local partners, or your MP?
• Are you planning to do any work like this soon?

We are doing a research project into women's organisations' experiences of influencing local priorities.

For this project we are using a feminist participatory action research model. This is a social justice model of research which aims to empower research participants to take action to improve conditions in their lives. It also has a gendered analysis which acknowledges and challenges structural discrimination against women and values women’s experiences and voices.

Find out more about the research.

The main body of the research involves four women’s organisations (or networks) to be active research participants from March 2009 to July 2010. WRC will actively support and work with these women’s organisations to engage with their LSP and influence their LAA.

Contact Darlene for more information on 020 7324 3036.