Become a member

Interested in becoming a member of the Feminist Humanitarian Network? Please read all the information and then complete an application form.

Who can join?

  • Organizations and networks working at grassroots, national and regional levels in the Global South

  • International NGOs, federations and organizations headquartered in the Global North

  • Academic institutions

  • Individuals

Membership Principles

Membership Principles

Members of the Feminist Humanitarian Network must align with the Network’s Membership Principles, which require them to:

  • Be committed to a feminist approach

  • Be women’s organisations, or women-led organisations (where Board and management self-identify as women)

  • Have a focus on gender justice in their work

  • Have an inclusive and intersectional approach to their work, including being inclusive of women from the LGBTQIA+ community

  • Be engaged in, or interested in engaging in humanitarian space

  • Have the capacity to participate in the Network, and significant interest in belonging.

In addition to the criterion specified above, international organisations belonging to the Network must:

  • Be committed to opening space for feminist and women's rights organisations in humanitarian spaces

  • Be committed to supporting grassroots and national organisations to engage in humanitarian action

  • Have operational safeguarding policies in place.

All organisational members must align with the FHN’s membership principles, including being women’s organisations, or women-led organisations (wherein Board and management self-identify as women). 

Riya Williams Yuyada, Crown the Woman, South Sudan

“To me the FHN is a space of belonging, it is a family! It is a space that empowers us it has empowered me as Riya, and also my organization Crown the Women - making us part of a global village.”

Being a member of the Feminist Humanitarian Network means:

  • Building alliances, and sharing resources and learning on ways to increase women’s leadership, agency and voice in the humanitarian system

  • Co-creating a powerful global feminist advocacy agenda based on the progressive feminist work and analysis by members of the Network to target shifts in the humanitarian system

  • Collectively advocating to donors, governments and other stakeholders for shifts in the current humanitarian system towards one guided by feminist principles.

Membership process

  1. Please complete and submit the correct membership form - you can find the forms for organisations and individuals here.

2. Your application will be reviewed by the FHN’s Membership Committee and we will be in touch with any questions. 

3. Once your form has undergone initial review by the Membership Committee, the FHN Steering Committee will formalise your membership. 

4. Please be patient, the application processes and membership onboarding can take up to three months. 

If you like to organise an initial discussion with the FHN, please contact the FHN Lead.