What is the Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance?

By way of background The Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance is modelled on the pioneering Women, Faith and Development Alliance (WFDA) – a unique partnership of internationally focused faith, development, and women’s organisations dedicated to engendering global efforts to reduce poverty by increasing political will and action to increase investments in women’s and girls’ empowerment around the world.

The purpose of  The Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance is to reinvigorate the energies of the women, faith and development communities and ensure greater effectiveness by exploring opportunities for new partnerships and collaborations. It will also work to engage and attract new partners from the private sector to the common goal of ending poverty by empowering women.

The Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance was launched at the Asia Pacific Breakthrough: The Women, Faith and Development Summit to End Global Poverty, which took place in Melbourne on December 1st to 3rd, 2009 on the eve of the Parliament of the World’s Religions.