An archive of our accompaniment work

Recrear was brought in by the Lankelly Chase Foundation (LCF) to accompany a 5-month cooperative inquiry with 8 movement organisations in the UK to explore how to attend to the relationship between movement organisations and donors, especially in the UK. The inquiry happened to unfold just as the fund took a decision to transition towards closure. These turning tides made for a deeply moving learning experience, the insights of which, and accompanying tools, are shared in the interactive publication ‘What Moves Movements: An inquiry into the power of words and silence in navigating

This participatory research project explored ways for INGOs to better nurture and safeguard youth civic spaces. We facilitated a learning journey with Oxfam staff and youth organisations across Palestine, Pakistan, and Uganda, examining strategies for more supportive engagement. The insights from this journey culminated in the publication of ‘What Happens if We Meet?’, a practical playbook designed to strengthen collaboration between INGOs and youth organisers within the context of shrinking civic spaces.

FRIDA engaged Recrear to investigate the long-term impact of FRIDA’s support on its grantee partners and, by extension, the communities served by these young feminist groups. Over the course of a year, Recrear conducted in-person visits with young feminist groups in each region supported by FRIDA. The research involved grantees in workshops and in-depth interviews to ensure their insights shaped the findings. This collaborative process resulted in The Young Feminist Pluriverse, a narrative report that delves into how sustained, flexible financial and non-financial support enhances the resilience and evolution of young feminist organisations and movements.

This learning partnership explored the connections between youth livelihoods and human rights in West Africa. As part of the process, we recruited and trained a team of co-researchers—grantee partners of the Fund based in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The project concluded with the creation of Youth Lively-hoods, a Learning Agenda designed to inspire curiosity, facilitate deep learning, and provide a roadmap for future research. This agenda serves as a tool to frame key questions, propose PAR activities to address them, and inspire actions for meaningful progress in securing the livelihoods and fundamental rights of young people.

As part of the FemPawer initiative, we supported Kvinna Till Kvinna and its partners in co-designing and implementing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) programme on economic gender-based violence (GBV) in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Tunisia. We trained local co-researchers in our PAR and storytelling methodologies and guided them in conducting in-country projects to investigate how economic vulnerability exposes women to GBV. The project culminated in the publication of Hidden Voices, a booklet of stories about Arab women’s economic survival.

In partnership with Fos Feminista, we coordinated regional dialogues across four regions to create a collective space to analyze the approaches and impact of anti-rights movements and to share strategies for mobilizing among organizations advancing bodily autonomy. This process involved a series of virtual sessions, culminating in an in-person gathering for shared reflection and strategy-building.

We accompanied the Decolonial Feminist Collective at Oxfam in understanding and shaping its work and in setting a shared vision for transformation grounded in decolonial feminist thinking and praxis. We facilitated a dynamic, participatory process that surfaced the knowledge already present within the organization and enabled the Collective to develop practices to sustain and deepen its transformative journey.

Our team was invited to strengthen the capacity of partners across West and East Africa to hold meaningful spaces with young people and community members on complex issues such as human rights and economic discrimination. We supported a small group of actors through online training sessions focused on participatory facilitation, reflective practice, and adapting learning tools to grantee contexts. Together, we also co-designed and tested participatory learning activities that the Fund can now use to sustain ongoing learning and capture insights with partners. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Me93IVsXv83B1a-sId8caXtV4T7IGGw/view?usp=sharing

We had the unique opportunity to collaborate with WFD to provide women politicians across Asia with a space to discuss their experience with Violence Against Women in Politics. The workshop focused on creating a safe space to surface, share, and analyse stories on VAWP.

The Crisis and Care convening hosted by the Urgent Action Sister Funds was a gathering that brought together approximately 300 activists, predominantly, and feminist funders to unpack what it means to practice care in times of crisis. Recrear was part of the facilitation team that co-designed and facilitated elements of the gathering. In particular, we designed and held a co-creation process with a group of artists and healers whose sessions were offered as part of the programming of the convening.

In times of funding uncertainty, Madre and Fondo Semilla convened a gathering to explore alternative resourcing models that reflect local realities, prioritize solidarity and interdependence, and inspire adaptable strategies for systemic change. Recrear was brought in to co-design this process and facilitate the 3-day lab attended by over 50 feminist collectives and women’s funds from around the world. models

We supported with the facilitation of a co-design for a new women’s political leadership framework. This workshop was attended by womxn identifying parliamentarians and WFD staff from across the Sub-Saharan, MENA and Asia-Pacific regions. The co-design process allowed us to explore what women’s political leadership could look like and how our positionalities and intersectionalities also influence our understanding of a truly inclusive vision.

In Sri Lanka we facilitated an intensive training for members of parliament, civil society and the media to design and conduct community consultations inspired by the design and principles of PAR. They carried out their participatory consultations in fisherman and plantation communities, as well as in Parliament. The insights gathered led to reviewing key legislation on health and transport related issues as well as inspired the creation of an association, independent from WFD, to continue this cross-party work on inclusion in politics. Three years later, Recrear is returning to Sri Lanka to especially support the women parliamentarians currently in office as well as to carry out the kick-off workshop of a new inclusive political leadership program.

In Ukraine we trained and accompanied 5 local researchers to carry out a PAR process around community-rebuilding in a context of war within two municipalities. The workshops they led in these communities surfaced some of the most critical needs of residents while also pointing to the possible actions to make the most of the support in the ecosystem they still have access to.

We brought PAR to the design and accompaniment of a collaborative cross-party workshop on unpacking and addressing Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWP) with members from eight political parties in the Maldives. Additionally we trained the local team in trauma-informed facilitation and co-designed with them a ‘Story Circles’ workshop they later conducted to surface stories of VAWP within different political parties. This has culminated in the co-creation of a public exhibition of fictionalized stories that help paint a picture of the real experiences that women face in politics.

We worked alongside the WFD team to tailor a PAR training on the question of how Tik Tok is being used as a social and political space in Taiwan. This brought together members of youth wings of diverse political parties, public officials from the education ministries and digital justice organizations to critically reflect on Tik Tok’s use and the implications of regulation.