Statement by the Regional Women-Led Organizations Support Platform for the Sudan Situation

We, the members of the Regional Women-Led Organizations (WLO) Support Platform for the Sudan Situation, stand in solidarity with Sudanese women and girls who continue to bear the devastating impacts of war, displacement, and humanitarian crisis.

Four years into the conflict, women and girls continue to face heightened risks of displacement, loss of lives, gender-based violence (GBV), conflict-related sexual violence, livelihoods and food insecurity, and limited access to essential services. Humanitarian needs continue to rise while access to assistance remains constrained. Women and girls in underserved and hard-to-reach locations, including Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile, face challenges that require urgent attention.

Despite these challenges, Sudanese women continue to lead. Women-led organizations remain at the forefront of humanitarian response, community protection, peacebuilding, and recovery efforts. They provide life-saving support, advocate for affected communities, and strengthen resilience in some of the most difficult operating environments. Yet their contributions remain insufficiently recognized, resourced, and supported.

As a Platform, we reaffirm our commitment to advancing the rights of women and girls, and ensuring their meaningful participation in humanitarian action, peacebuilding, recovery, and sustainable development. Women and girls affected by the Sudan regional crisis are not only recipients of assistance; we are leaders, rights-holders, and agents of change whose voices and expertise should be at the center of all decisions that affect ourlives.

Our Key Priorities

Protection and Accountability

We call for strengthened protection of communities, especially women, girls and children, from all forms of violence, including gender-based violence, conflict-related sexual violence, exploitation, abuse and hate speech. Survivors should have access to safe, confidential, and survivor-centered services, including healthcare, psychosocial support, legal assistance, sexual and reproductive health services.

We further call for justice and accountability for violations committed against women and girls and for strengthened efforts to end impunity. Governments, Humanitarian actors and parties to the conflict to prioritize the protection of civilians and uphold international humanitarian and human rights law.

Women's Leadership and Participation

Sustainable peace and recovery cannot be achieved without women's leadership.

Therefore, women should be fully, equally, and meaningfully represented in humanitarian coordination mechanisms, recovery and stabilization efforts, peace negotiations, and political processes. Sudanese women, including human rights defenders and those living with disabilities, should have a seat at the decision-making tables at local, national, regional and international levels.

Direct and Sustainable Funding

Investing in women-led organizations is essential to ensuring effective, accountable, and locally led humanitarian action, peacebuilding, and recovery efforts.

Women-led organizations continue to deliver critical services despite shrinking resources and increasing operational challenges. This requires direct, flexible, predictable, and long-term funding to sustain these efforts.

Access to food and essential services

Access to food and basic services remains a critical concern. Access to food, healthcare, education, shelter, water, sanitation, livelihoods, and social protection services should be prioritized with particular attention to displaced women, women-headed households, adolescent girls, older persons, and persons with disabilities.