A new WEE network in Oxfam composed of practitioners and thought leaders from the global south has launched the new Community of Practice (COP) on WEE who interact, engage, and will lead various learning initiatives at local, regional, or global levels, offline or online, virtual-digital or physical, demonstrating and leading decolonizing knowledge in Oxfam.

The WEE COP in Oxfam is more than just a “network of connected people” but a group characterized by the following: 1) a strong identification with the shared domain – in this case, “Women’s Economic Empowerment”, 2) a commitment to learning together indicated by the collective crafting of the learning questions and the mechanisms agreed for follow through, and 3) a structure to ensure information flows, knowledge exchange, and collective learning will be facilitated and sustained – the WEE Knowledge Hub.

The Global WEE Knowledge Hub is strengthening its animator-facilitator role in the WEE COP, especially in designing and creating learning strategies, activities, spaces, and materials to sustain the “aliveness” of the community. The new WEE Network aims to expand and welcome stakeholders by intentionally inviting partner organizations and improving its learning platforms through decolonized, feminist, and localized knowledge and learning strategies in the next few years.

Last FY, the WEE COP led the first step in decolonizing knowledge by identifying key learning themes from their WEE programming and translating them into key learning questions. These were used in developing a new WEE learning agenda in Oxfam and bolstered the operational plan of the Southern-led WEE Knowledge Hub in Oxfam.

We are inviting stakeholders to share your thoughts, inputs, and ideas on the WEE Learning Questions in Oxfam.

We’d love to hear from you! Visit http://bit.ly/WEE-LQ-INPUT.

The WEE Network through Oxfam’s WEE Knowledge Hub is looking for new members and stakeholders
in mainstreaming WEE Knowledge and Learning from practice.