Our allies and collaborators
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- Women's alliances
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- Other organisations sharing the journey
Women's alliances
Equality Rights Alliance
WCC is a member of the Equal Rights Alliance (ERA) is one of the 6 National Women’s Alliances funded by the Commonwealth Government.
ERA is the largest of the Alliances, with over 60 member organisations, advocating for women’s equality, women’s leadership and recognition of women’s diversity, using a range of methods to consult and engage with women across Australia. The Women’s Climate Congress (WCC) has now joined as a member.
The ERA's 2022 Annual Member meeting was held in Sydney on 2-3 June. Each organisation sent two representatives to the Meeting. It was a hybrid meeting with Janet Salisbury attending in person and Barbara O’Dwyer on-line as the WCC representatives.
Read a report on the 2022 Equality Rights Alliance Members Meeting here.
National Rural Women's Coalition
The National Rural Women's Coalition (NRWC) is one of 6 government funded women's alliances. it provides a collaborative voice for women living in rural, remote and regional Australia and represents the diverse views of women helping to build a positive profile of their achievements and issues. NRWC provides policy advice to the Australian Government on matters relevant to the views and circumstances of rural women and also takes a leading role in ensuring that it helps as many rural, regional and remote women as possible to achieve their goals.
After meeting with the NRWC's CEO (Keli McDonald) and President (Leonie Noble) in 2020, early in February 2021, Barbara Baikie and Janet Salisbury were invited to address the NRWC board meeting where are proposal for ongoing collaboration between the Congress and NRWC was accepted.
Equality Rights Alliance
WCC is a member of the Equal Rights Alliance (ERA) is one of the 6 National Women’s Alliances funded by the Commonwealth Government.
ERA is the largest of the Alliances, with over 60 member organisations, advocating for women’s equality, women’s leadership and recognition of women’s diversity, using a range of methods to consult and engage with women across Australia. The Women’s Climate Congress (WCC) has now joined as a member.
The ERA's 2022 Annual Member meeting was held in Sydney on 2-3 June. Each organisation sent two representatives to the Meeting. It was a hybrid meeting with Janet Salisbury attending in person and Barbara O’Dwyer on-line as the WCC representatives.
Read a report on the 2022 Equality Rights Alliance Members Meeting here.
National Rural Women's Coalition
The National Rural Women's Coalition (NRWC) is one of 6 government funded women's alliances. it provides a collaborative voice for women living in rural, remote and regional Australia and represents the diverse views of women helping to build a positive profile of their achievements and issues. NRWC provides policy advice to the Australian Government on matters relevant to the views and circumstances of rural women and also takes a leading role in ensuring that it helps as many rural, regional and remote women as possible to achieve their goals.
After meeting with the NRWC's CEO (Keli McDonald) and President (Leonie Noble) in 2020, early in February 2021, Barbara Baikie and Janet Salisbury were invited to address the NRWC board meeting where are proposal for ongoing collaboration between the Congress and NRWC was accepted.
Friends and collaborators
1 Million Women
An organisation of women from Australian and all over the world, supporting each other to climate action through personal lifestyle choices and other actions. 836,000 members and growing!
A Chorus of Women has been weaving artistic expression of citizen concerns and citizen conversations in Canberra and beyond for over 17 years. The WCC initiative has been particularly inspired by two major Chorus projects:
In addition, Janet's paper draws on her work in Chorus from 2009–14 to facilitate 10 Canberra Conversations. These conversations brought together brought together groups of about 50–70 people from a wide range of perspectives to discuss issues of concern and potential disagreement in a safe and collaborative way.
Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. It is an effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them. The Art of Hosting is an international collaboration of practitioners who train using an apprenticeship method to learn from experienced stewards. In Australia the Congress it very grateful for the support of Jane Geltch at Purpose Partners, and Mel Geltch and others at Campfire Coop.
Australia reMADE has developed a vision for the future Australians long for.
This article by their Secretariat Chair, Louise Tarrant, particularly resonates with the WCC vision.
What if we centred radical love at the heart of our politics?
Australian Compassion Council
On the invitation of our member Dr Lynne Reeder, who is National Director of the Australian Compassion Council, the Congress has been accepted as an official partner for the Global Charter for Compassion. See: https://charterforcompassion.org/women-s-climate-congress
As a Charter Partner, we are part of a growing number of members, partners, and compassionate communities who are working toward a vision of a compassionate global community. A world in which compassion and compassionate action, as articulated in the Charter, will become a transformative energy, motivating individuals and communities to care for each other, to relieve suffering wherever it is found, and to connect to other communities across the globe to ensure well-being for all beings on the planet.
Climate Action Network Australia
SHE Changes Climate
In 2020, SHE Changes Climate was founded by Antoinette Vermilye, Bianca Pitt and Elise Buckle, with the aim to bring diversity and inclusiveness, transparency and accountability to the COP negotiations on Climate Change. When this campaign originally began in November 2020, there were just 15% women that could be identified on the UK COP26 Leadership Team. This has exposed a deep need to address the composition of the delegations and set clear targets and an international standard for all future COPs, starting with COP26.
The Shift to Gender Equality Network
Wicked Elephants is a co-operative of innovative facilitators who help you get (tr)action on wicked problems, working with individuals, teams, leaders and organisations to develop skills and abilities for powerful collaboration. Thanks to Deborah Collins, Caresse Cranwell and Johanna De Ruyter for joining us on the Congress journey and for sharing your wisdom.
Women's Agenda is a hub sharing the latest news and views affecting how women live and work. A small team of independent women journalists and editors look at politics, business, leadership, tech and life from the perspective of professional women and female entrepreneurs, and provide a daily email update.
Women's Environmental Leadership Australia
WELA is lifting female voices to ensure that women’s insights, knowledge, and contributions are fully integrated into the change we need to make to save the planet. A number of Congress members have previously undertaken the WELA environmental leadership training course, which is a 2-week residential intensive for women wanting to lead environmental change.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is one of the longest established women's NGOs in the world with observer status at he UN, offices in Geneva and NY and branches throughout the world.
It was founded at the remarkable, but little known, 1915 International Congress of Women held at The Hague in April 1915 - the only peace congress of WW1 and attended by 1300 women from 12 warring and neutral countries. This story was one of the inspirations for the Women's Climate Congress.
50/50 by 2030 Foundation
The 50/50 by 2030 Foundation is a gender equality initiative established by the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), at the University of Canberra, Australia. Backed by world class research expertise, the aim is to develop evidence based theory and leading practice on the role of women in strengthening public administration and improving governance and national well-being. Bespoke training modules; seminars, and events aim to challenge the prevailing discourse around women, power and public leadership.
1 Million Women
An organisation of women from Australian and all over the world, supporting each other to climate action through personal lifestyle choices and other actions. 836,000 members and growing!
A Chorus of Women has been weaving artistic expression of citizen concerns and citizen conversations in Canberra and beyond for over 17 years. The WCC initiative has been particularly inspired by two major Chorus projects:
- the story of the women's peace movement in WW1, told in Glenda's choral and narrative works A Passion for Peace (2015), and The People's Passion (2018, 2019)
- Glenda Cloughley's choral drama The Gifts of the Furies, tells what happens when humans put their own laws and hubris above the laws of nature.
In addition, Janet's paper draws on her work in Chorus from 2009–14 to facilitate 10 Canberra Conversations. These conversations brought together brought together groups of about 50–70 people from a wide range of perspectives to discuss issues of concern and potential disagreement in a safe and collaborative way.
Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. It is an effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them. The Art of Hosting is an international collaboration of practitioners who train using an apprenticeship method to learn from experienced stewards. In Australia the Congress it very grateful for the support of Jane Geltch at Purpose Partners, and Mel Geltch and others at Campfire Coop.
Australia reMADE has developed a vision for the future Australians long for.
This article by their Secretariat Chair, Louise Tarrant, particularly resonates with the WCC vision.
What if we centred radical love at the heart of our politics?
Australian Compassion Council
On the invitation of our member Dr Lynne Reeder, who is National Director of the Australian Compassion Council, the Congress has been accepted as an official partner for the Global Charter for Compassion. See: https://charterforcompassion.org/women-s-climate-congress
As a Charter Partner, we are part of a growing number of members, partners, and compassionate communities who are working toward a vision of a compassionate global community. A world in which compassion and compassionate action, as articulated in the Charter, will become a transformative energy, motivating individuals and communities to care for each other, to relieve suffering wherever it is found, and to connect to other communities across the globe to ensure well-being for all beings on the planet.
Climate Action Network Australia
SHE Changes Climate
In 2020, SHE Changes Climate was founded by Antoinette Vermilye, Bianca Pitt and Elise Buckle, with the aim to bring diversity and inclusiveness, transparency and accountability to the COP negotiations on Climate Change. When this campaign originally began in November 2020, there were just 15% women that could be identified on the UK COP26 Leadership Team. This has exposed a deep need to address the composition of the delegations and set clear targets and an international standard for all future COPs, starting with COP26.
The Shift to Gender Equality Network
Wicked Elephants is a co-operative of innovative facilitators who help you get (tr)action on wicked problems, working with individuals, teams, leaders and organisations to develop skills and abilities for powerful collaboration. Thanks to Deborah Collins, Caresse Cranwell and Johanna De Ruyter for joining us on the Congress journey and for sharing your wisdom.
Women's Agenda is a hub sharing the latest news and views affecting how women live and work. A small team of independent women journalists and editors look at politics, business, leadership, tech and life from the perspective of professional women and female entrepreneurs, and provide a daily email update.
Women's Environmental Leadership Australia
WELA is lifting female voices to ensure that women’s insights, knowledge, and contributions are fully integrated into the change we need to make to save the planet. A number of Congress members have previously undertaken the WELA environmental leadership training course, which is a 2-week residential intensive for women wanting to lead environmental change.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is one of the longest established women's NGOs in the world with observer status at he UN, offices in Geneva and NY and branches throughout the world.
It was founded at the remarkable, but little known, 1915 International Congress of Women held at The Hague in April 1915 - the only peace congress of WW1 and attended by 1300 women from 12 warring and neutral countries. This story was one of the inspirations for the Women's Climate Congress.
50/50 by 2030 Foundation
The 50/50 by 2030 Foundation is a gender equality initiative established by the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), at the University of Canberra, Australia. Backed by world class research expertise, the aim is to develop evidence based theory and leading practice on the role of women in strengthening public administration and improving governance and national well-being. Bespoke training modules; seminars, and events aim to challenge the prevailing discourse around women, power and public leadership.
Other organisations sharing the journey
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound, founded by Fabian Dattner and others, is supporting women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine) to significantly improve their clarity, confidence, shared vision and strategic capability to take up leadership roles globally, and to proactively contribute to a sustainable world, both individually and collectively. The aim is to create a new way of leading that is better suited to the world we are now living in, with a greater focus on the concept of a ‘global home’ – led with integrity, a drive for results, an ability to motivate others, a deep care for relationships and the will to collaborate towards this shared ambition.
Like the Congress, this organisation asks 'What if men and women led our world in equal measure – would our world and the decisions we make on behalf of future generations be different? Would we be more collaborative, inclusive, more legacy minded and more trustworthy with assets – people and money?' 'It’s not that men can’t or won’t do this. Rather that, when time is short, it may be that the balance of men and women on leadership teams will serve us all.'
Over 10 years, HB aims to build a global collaboration of 1000 women with backgrounds in STEMM. They will be visible, collaborative, networked and impacting the decisions made in many quarters for the greater good.
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound, founded by Fabian Dattner and others, is supporting women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine) to significantly improve their clarity, confidence, shared vision and strategic capability to take up leadership roles globally, and to proactively contribute to a sustainable world, both individually and collectively. The aim is to create a new way of leading that is better suited to the world we are now living in, with a greater focus on the concept of a ‘global home’ – led with integrity, a drive for results, an ability to motivate others, a deep care for relationships and the will to collaborate towards this shared ambition.
Like the Congress, this organisation asks 'What if men and women led our world in equal measure – would our world and the decisions we make on behalf of future generations be different? Would we be more collaborative, inclusive, more legacy minded and more trustworthy with assets – people and money?' 'It’s not that men can’t or won’t do this. Rather that, when time is short, it may be that the balance of men and women on leadership teams will serve us all.'
Over 10 years, HB aims to build a global collaboration of 1000 women with backgrounds in STEMM. They will be visible, collaborative, networked and impacting the decisions made in many quarters for the greater good.
