CAPOW! (1992 - )

CAPOW! is a networking coalition for women's non-government organisations (NGOs) in Australia Since its foundation in 1992 at a WEL national conference CAPOW! has played a major role in developing cooperative ventures and mechanisms across the women's movement. It held twice-yearly face-to-face meetings for this purpose.

CAPOW! helped coordinate NGO forums to facilitate submissions to the federal government and the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, (September 1995). It has since worked to follow up the commitments made by the Government and NGOs at Beijing, and continues to encourage womens' NGOs to make submissions to the government.

By 1996 the CAPOW network linked more than sixty national women’s organisations and served to improve information flow and coordination of advocacy in international as well as domestic spheres.

Member

• Union of Australian Women (1950 - )

Related Events

• National Women's Round Table (1994 - )

  Until 1996, CAPOW! organised a pre-Round Table meeting. Due to loss of government funding to CAPOW! in 1996, Canberra-based national women's organsiations have organised these pre-Round Table meetings.

  [ - 1996]

Online Resources

• CAPOW, 'Australian Women's Honour Roll B', http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm. [ Details... ]

See also

• Caine, Barbara (ed.), Australian Feminism: A Companion, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, 607 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sawer, Marian, 'Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand', United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1996, http://www.unrisd.org/html/op/opb/opb6/op6.htm. [ Details... ]