our voices, our futures

The Our Voices, Our Futures (OVOF) consortium amplifies the voices and increases the visibility of structurally silenced women to enable them to take their rightful place in civic spaces and participate freely across the online, physical public, and legal and policy spaces.

CREA is the consortium’s lead organization, working collaboratively in six focus countries – India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Lebanon, Sudan – with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), UHAI-EASHRI (East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative) and WO=MEN, along with strategic partner IM-Defensoras.

OVOF’s Recent Work

• The OVOF advocacy working group has been intimately involved in developing and amplifying the Indispensable Measures to Ensure the Holistic Protection of WHRDs (women human rights defenders), in collaboration with them and their organizations.
• Through our Feminist Tech Deep-dive series, OVOF has built the capacity of activists and practitioners globally on digital rights and developing a feminist approach to digital technologies.
• Our partners in South Asia are working with LGBTIQ artists to tell their stories, documenting evidence on indigenous women, and amplifying the voices of structurally silenced women and girls through women-led news media production, such as Khabar Lahariya, a rural digital media organization.
• The Emerging Leaders Initiative invited early-career professionals or recent graduates to join us in our mission of advancing sexual and human rights for all structurally excluded groups. Over two years (2023-24 and 2024-25), 18 passionate young feminists were chosen through a careful selection proccess. Each selected Emerging Leader then worked for a year  with different teams within CREA. All these young leaders now work elsewhere in the sector, helping to drive social change propelled by their learnings from their year-long stint at CREA.
• In 2023, CREA piloted a storytelling program, titled The Storytelling Initiative, as a platform for young, creative, feminist storytellers to narrate compelling tales of resilience, collective action and social justice. True to our mission, this initiative amplified voices from structurally excluded groups and highlighted untold stories often overlooked by mainstream media through novel and experimental formats. By intentionally exploring unconventional themes and mediums, the program sought to challenge dominant narratives. The final outputs are publicly available under a Creative Commons license. Two rounds are complete and a third will conclude by end-2025. See the outputs from the first round.

OVOF Newsletters

Newsletter Edition 1 (July 2024)

Newsletter Edition 2 (January 2025)

Partner Organizations

OVOF is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (under their Power of Voices grant).