Empowering 36 CSOs, particularly grassroots women -led, feminist, and women’s rights organizations, to implement WPS programs addressing the needs of women and girls in their communities, to strengthen their capacities on fundraising and internal governance, to meet in a safe space, to network, to share best practices and by lobbying and advocating to result in self – reliant and inter -connected actors, advancing a localized WPS agenda contributing to inclusive peace and security in communities in Iraq.