Empowerment through...
Amplifying voices
We facilitate community input through our Field Hearings, gathering people’s ideas about their problems, potential solutions, and priorities for action. Then we amplify these voices nationally and internationally, and advocate for the changes they prioritize.
Empowerment through...
Strategic activism
We enhance political empowerment by working with communities to hold governments accountable. We also host global Action Groups – citizen empowerment collaborations on inequality-related issues such as land grabs or refugees & migrants.
Empowerment through...
Participatory economic enterprises
Economic empowerment is urgently needed alongside social and political empowerment. Our PARTICEN project goes beyond microfinance, working to facilitate community-initiated participatory, democratic, sustainable enterprises.
Our Impact
Global Network
IfE is building a network of members and partners around the world – in over 130 countries so far – and has held Field Hearings in 115 communities.
Equity Treaty
IfE convened the first global civil society negotiated statement on inequality, and uses this ‘Equity Treaty’ around the world to push for a focus on equality.
Monitoring & Accountability
IfE successfully proposed Goal 10 – reduce inequalities – as one of 17 global development goals. Now we are coordinating a citizen monitoring network to see that it happens.
Climate Justice
IfE helped make inequalities a key part of the climate debate through our “Call to Address Inequalities and Social Justice,” brought into the COP21 meetings in Paris 2015.
Action Groups
IfE is supporting Action Groups – global collaborations among activists working to overcome specific social, economic or political inequalities.
Economic Development
IfE is promoting more sustainable and democratic economies by facilitating local discussions on community-initiated economic development.