The Stronger Together Coalition is bringing global SRHR convenings together to strengthen collaboration—and its first cross-community survey will help identify how anti-rights movements, misinformation, and censorship are affecting our field.
By Kellie Welborn, Natalie Apcar, & Mauli Mehta
Speakers from the Stronger Together Coalition’s panel event at the recent Social and Behavior Change Summit in Panama City, Panama.
Global convenings are essential for advancing women’s health and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). These convenings bring together researchers, advocates, policymakers, funders, practitioners, and community leaders to share evidence, coordinate advocacy, build partnerships, and shape the future of the field.
But today’s challenges—from shrinking civic space to coordinated anti-rights campaigns and declining funding—do not begin and end with individual conferences. Addressing them requires sustained collaboration between the organizations and movements working across SRHR year-round.
That’s why the Stronger Together Coalition was formed. Bringing together leading global SRHR convenings—including ICFP, FIGO, Women Deliver, and similar conferences—the Coalition is helping transform individual events into an ongoing community of learning, coordination, and collective action.
Kellie Welborn speaking at a Stronger Together Coalition event at ICFP 2025 in Bogota, Colombia.
Together, Coalition members are identifying opportunities to:
- Strengthen collaboration and coordination across conferences – Building on one another’s strengths rather than working in silos.
- Share evidence and successful approaches across sectors.
- Amplify community voices through coordinated storytelling and media engagement.
- Strengthen accountability for commitments made across global convenings
Uniting Against Growing Anti-Rights Rhetoric
One of the Coalition’s first collaborative priorities has emerged directly from conversations across our communities: responding to the rapid rise of organized anti-rights movements, misinformation, and censorship affecting SRHR work around the world. Rather than relying on anecdotal experiences, the Coalition is gathering evidence to better understand where these challenges are occurring and how organizations are responding.
To support this effort, the Coalition has launched its first cross-community survey. We are inviting organizations, advocates, researchers, practitioners, journalists, and partners working across SRHR and gender equity to share what they are seeing.
The findings will inform future Coalition conversations, conference programming, advocacy efforts, and shared resources—helping ensure that organizations across the SRHR movement can learn from one another and respond more effectively to growing threats.
If you are working in SRHR or gender equity, we encourage you to share your experiences by completing the survey below. This survey initiative exemplifies what the Coalition was created to do: identify shared challenges, generate collective knowledge, and turn that learning into coordinated action across the global SRHR movement.
