CREA has always experimented with what a feminist organization can be. It has broken the mold many times. It has given a large number of individuals an opportunity to work on what’s currently happening, to take the lead, be part of conversations.
Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Team Lead, Programs & Innovations
structural exclusion
When CREA uses the term “structurally excluded”, we refer to how societal architecture prevents some people from enjoying the full spectrum of rights and from meaningfully participating in their communities and decision-making spaces.
We focus on preventing individual harms, dismantling the structures that construct and sustain those harms, and creating pathways to justice for persons excluded because of their real or perceived genders, sexualities, identities, or chosen forms of labor.
CREA works with structurally excluded women and girls, persons of diverse sexualities, genders and sex characteristics, persons with disabilities, and sex workers. We will continue practicing and advocating for broader inclusion and solidarity.
CREA’s Strategic Plan 2021-25 expresses CREA’s politics and values, reinforcing core commitments and responding to the current moment. The Strategic Plan is designed to advance the human rights of these communities and works towards CREA’s vision of a just and peaceful world.
strategic objectives
feminist leadership
CREA ensures feminist leadership and movements are strong, intersectional, inclusive and amplify the voices of structurally excluded people.
Outcome 1.1: Partner organizations are capacitated to become more intersectional, accessible, effective and inclusive of structurally excluded people.
Outcome 1.2: A cadre of leaders, particularly among structurally excluded people, is capacitated to advance feminist models of leadership, participation and critical thinking.
Outcome 1.3: South-South and global movements increasingly express solidarity with and reflect the perspectives of structurally excluded people.
sexual and reproductive health and rights
CREA develops knowledge resources on sexuality, reproductive and sexual gender and human rights that reflect the experiences and perspectives of Global South feminists.
Outcome 2.1: SRHR movement actors increasingly embrace a rights-based and affirmative approach.
Outcome 2.2: Individuals are capacitated to exercise and assert their sexual and reproductive rights and freedoms.
Outcome 2.3: Policy actors defend and advance sexual and reproductive rights and health.
Outcome 2.4: Families, community members and other stakeholders increasingly support the sexual and reproductive rights and freedoms of all people.
responses to gender-based violence
CREA links local and global advocacy and challenges policies, laws and practices that undermine the rights of people whose realities are invisible or silenced.
Outcome 3.1: Structurally excluded people identify and understand gender-based violence (GBV) and take action to address it in their lives and communities.
Outcome 3.2: Advocacy, public education and capacity-building efforts effectively challenge punitive or protectionist laws, policies and practices that can exacerbate GBV or otherwise cause harm.
Outcome 3.3: GBV movement actors increasingly embrace a rights-based and affirmative approach.
fostering collective resilience
CREA influences and shapes discourse in the public domain through art and media to change the way people think and act on issues of gender, sexuality and rights.
Outcome 4.1: Structurally excluded people and their movements contribute to the defense and expansion of civic space.
Outcome 4.2: Partner organizations and movements develop new discourses and strategies to resist and challenge anti-feminist and anti-rights mobilizations.
Outcome 4.3: Advocacy, public education and capacity-building efforts expand dialogues across contentious or neglected feminist issues, to build more effective movements.
Outcome 4.4: Feminist organizations increasingly adopt critical approaches to technology and defend digital rights, thereby enhancing the safety, security and well-being of movements and structurally excluded people in online spaces.
organizational values and culture
CREA manifests its values to be an intersectional, inclusive, accessible, diverse, innovative, collaborative and multigenerational feminist organization that strives to operate at high levels of excellence, effectiveness and accountability.
Outcome 5.1: CREA’s organizational culture and structures reflect its values and enable it to advance its mission.
Outcome 5.2: CREA’s organizational processes and systems enhance clarity, transparency, learning, accountability, efficiency and agility.
Outcome 5.3: CREA secures and manages the resources needed to implement its strategic plan and maximize strategic growth, innovation, responsiveness and sustainability.
strategies
CREA works towards its mission via the six C's:
capacitate
CREA helps equip its partners and constituencies with the knowledge, understanding, resources and skills to demand their rights, engage in advocacy and strengthen individual and collective resilience.
communicate
CREA moves critical thinking into critical practice, crafting messages to shift discourse, build knowledge, introduce new concepts and language, challenge prevailing social norms, and strengthen movement-building approaches.
complicate
CREA identifies matters that have been neglected or provoke tension, and challenges Itself and its partners to engage in difficult but meaningful discussions.
connect
CREA connects communities and organizations with each other and links advocates and activists across local, regional, and global levels.
create
CREA develops new knowledge resources that link cutting-edge theory with the experiences and perspectives of its partners and constituents.
convene
CREA convenes and collaborates with multiple social movements on cross-cutting issues of gender, sexuality and rights.
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CREA envisions a just and peaceful world, where everyone lives with dignity, respect and equality. We build feminist leadership, expand sexual and reproductive freedoms, and advance human rights of all people.
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