About Us

Women Colab is a collaborative community of women professionals, academics, volunteers and community members working together for positive change

Formed in 2019, Women Colab is women from all backgrounds coming together to promote change that improves the wellbeing of women and girls in our community and enables them to lead meaningful independent lives. We want to promote collaboration among women to understand barriers and identify solutions.

We want to empower women and girls to fulfil their potential because when one woman is helped out of poverty, she brings her family and community with her.

The key to this is creating equal opportunities for learning, volunteering and employment. We are dedicated to creating diverse and flexible opportunities to help women lead better lives.

Our Vision Women working together from around the world to inspire new ideas and solutions that enable them to lead meaningful independent lives, fulfil their aspirations and make a positive contribution to society.
Our Goals To promote mental wellbeing and socio-economic empowerment of women in particular those facing deprivation, isolation, and barriers to social inclusion

Our Values

Equity

Equitable and accessible opportunities and support for all

Participation

Giving voice to our community in decisions and working together to inspire new ideas

Evidence

Research to create new knowledge and understanding to promote evidence-based decision-making

Systematic Approach

Using Theory of Change methodology for planning, participation and evaluation

For the past 2 years I have researching mental health, poverty and innovation and sharing that with my team. I have also been leading discussions in Whatsapp in English and Arabic and we have built a good picture of the issues and solutions we need to make happen

Sarah - Research Team

Our Approach

Our approach is based on Theory of Change (ToC ) to stimulate and support social innovation and realise social impact. ToC explains our Women Colab's intended path to impact by outlining causal linkages in an initiative. Our intended impact is realised by connecting shorter-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes.
These linkages are based on our rationale of why and how outcomes are linked in promoting women's wellbeing.

Using this approach facilitates structured conversations around our strategy by mapping out the crucial activities and challenges involved and how they relate to each other. At the heart of our approach is a community-led and collaborative approach focused on bottom-up sustainable impacts driven by personal and collective innovation.