Initiatives
The Fòs Feminista Alliance brings together the experience and creativity of partners across regions. By connecting shared interests, we spark collaboration, fuel innovation, and strengthen solidarity.
For more than three decades, Fòs Feminista has supported knowledge-sharing among partners.
In 2024, we relaunched this work as the Capacity-Sharing Community—a global platform for two-way exchange. During its first year, partners strengthened their work in advocacy, community-centered care, and institutional resilience.
With initial funding from Fondation Chanel and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for work in Latin America and the Caribbean, combined with our own resources, we are now expanding the program worldwide.
Since 2024, 47 partners from 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe have joined Fòs Feminista’s knowledge-sharing community.
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partners built financial resilience through the Innovation and Social Enterprise Lab
Partners created earned-income initiatives such as sexual and reproductive health clinics that integrate Indigenous practices, training programs for midwifery, and gender equality advisory services for the private sector.
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partners connected through direct capacity-sharing exchanges
Issues addressed in these exchanges include: social decriminalization of abortion; increasing access to community care; sex ed and youth-friendly services for marginalized populations; co-leadership structures; telehealth and e-commerce platforms; and mobile health units.
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partners participated in regional forums for strategy and collaboration
The forums provided safe, strategic spaces for dialogue, fostering solidarity and collective action across the Alliance.
It is an honor to be part of this courageous space for collective thinking and shared leadership. We feel very inspired by the possibility of continuing to learn together, collaborate, and strengthen our collective work to defend sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region.Hiefer Rodriguez, reflecting on the regional meeting of partners that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2025
Executive Director, Fundación Unimédicos, Colombia
Fòs Feminista connects partners around shared priorities to provide and receive technical expertise or training on specific issues through virtual, in-person, or hybrid exchanges.
Launched in 2020, the Lab guides partners in developing and launching income-generating models that improve access to sexual and reproductive health care. Fòs Feminista provides customized business-planning advice and accompaniment (mentorship and peer support).
Partners with shared learning needs visit peer organizations with relevant expertise for hands-on experiential learning.
Along with partners, Fòs Feminista co-hosts centers as platforms for partners to share expertise, resources, and strategies for advancing their work in sex ed and youth-friendly services, evidence-based advocacy, transformative narratives, and legal responses.
Fòs Feminista brings partners together for collective learning, collaboration, and strategy around shared priorities.
Learning with and from each other to build the movement
Fòs Feminista coordinated an immersion visit to Colombia with partners from 6 countries to share experiences and expertise about building sustainable models for providing services to reach the most marginalized women and girls.
Fòs Feminista supported a 3-day capacity-building workshop on self-managed abortion, legal frameworks for abortion, and clinical care, bringing a field expert from Colombia to work with healthcare professionals, educators, and abortion accompaniers in Chile.
Building on longstanding work in Mexico to shift social norms around abortion, Fòs Feminista connected a Mexican partner with a partner in Haiti, where abortion is completely banned, to learn about effective strategies for the social decriminalization of abortion.