Weaving: The ancient craft of weaving tightly together local vegetation with our hands and hearts into vessels to hold sustenance, water, utensils, or carrying each other. Carrying generations of rituals, spiritual connections, languages, networks of knowledge and stories.

The Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources emerges as the world continues to burn with multiple and protracted crises and conflicts (economic deprivation, war, climate change) that severely and unevenly impact most Global South countries.

As the world is restructuring, the forms and types of power are evolving, while the geopolitics seems to be shifting and taking new forms in the process.

Gender inequality has increased as the pre-existing vulnerabilities have resulted in accelerated poverty and marginalisation of women, gender non-binary people and other marginalised groups.

However, the desired transformative change did not live up to its promise, leaving root causes of vulnerabilities and marginalisation unaddressed, therefore accommodating with patriarchal structures and systems of oppression.

This Feminist Influencing Basket brings in a transformative feminist approach to influencing by challenging the status quo in small and big ways, through disrupting power and privilege, and bringing in radical healing, love, and care to shift dominant narratives and strengthen our movements. It draws on Oxfam’s work on “The Principles of Feminist Influencing” and other Oxfam and external publications that are intended to build feminist ways of working within the organisation, its partners, friends, and allies. Several activities in this resource promote and foster feminist popular education and collective analysis to transform both the individual and the collective by creating a “unique bigger us” space where individual struggles are connected to the collective.