Values

  • Curiosity 
  • Collaboration  
  • Authenticity 
  • Feminist Leadership  

Core Principles

  • Intersectional feminism
  • Compassion
  • Lived experience 

In October 2023, WHISE launched our new Strategic Plan (2023 - 2028). This plan is the culmination of extensive reflection within the organisation and with key partners, a careful examination of the aspirations members and partners hold for their local Women’s Health Service, and in-depth discussions with the Board and staff about the future direction of WHISE.

The New Plan - Key Highlights

  • The plan strengthens our past vision to see “A region where gender equality is everybody’s experience, empowering women and girls to be safe, healthy and thriving”  and this will be achieved through the following objectives: 
    • Everyone in our region experiences gender equality in their daily lives. 
    • Women and girls in our region have access to gender-informed and appropriate healthcare. 
    • Women and girls in our region have access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services and information. 
    • Women and girls in our region live free of gendered violence, and in a healthy sustainable environment. 

     

    Building on the legacy of our work the strategy is based on a theory of change that will have WHISE deliver work across three pillars: 

    • Inclusion – to build practices internally and externally that are intersectional to enable ways of working that decolonise, are anti-racist, embrace a non-binary definition of gender, centre lived experience of marginalisation and enact climate justice 
    • Impact – to ensure that our work is valued and understood, that we are respected, trusted and influential across our region, that our partnerships and collaborations are transformative, that we build the evidence base through measurement that is impactful and systemic, that our workplace culture is innovative and adaptive and that we work to dismantle systems and strengthen intersectional practice 
    • Sustainability – so our staff are skills supported and resilient, that we have a consolidates and robust funding base with income pathways, we are environmentally sustainable, that our staff and board reflect the community we service and that we consistently embody our values through our operational practice. 

    Key to our success will be the values and operating principles which will be core to how we work and operate. 

Learn more about our Strategic Plan