Strategy

Our goal is to positively impact the lives of more than two million women and girls throughout Australia by the end of 2023.

Measuring our goal

An internal working group at YWCA Australia has been established to develop a process to measure our goal of positively impacting the lives of more than two million women, young women and girls throughout Australia by the end of 2023.

YWCA Australia’s work is complex and ranges from intensive face-to-face client work to systematic population level change through policy, advocacy and research initiatives. The group is establishing definitions around what we mean by “positive impact” for women, young women and girls. Our first implementation priority is identifying what we count, who we count and how we ensure the integrity of the data as we work towards our two million goal.

The YWCA Australia Board will review the working groups recommendations by the end of June 2019 and we will then share the goal measurement process with YWCA staff, members, and stakeholders.

Five Year Strategic Plan

Following a consultation process with members, employees, supporters and our board, we have developed our new five-year strategic plan that highlights four key priorities:

• safety,
• housing,
• leadership and
• sustainability. 

These strategic priorities are based on the recognition that gender inequality leads to negative outcomes for women. Our work is focused on challenging the behaviours, structures and power imbalances that impact gender equality. We seek to understand how different types of discrimination – such as ethnicity, age, disability, gender or sexual identity and religious beliefs – intersect with and amplify the effects of gender inequality.

Our Priorities