JASS is a movement strengthening organisation dedicated to building the voice, visibility, and collective power of women for a just, liberated and sustainable world for all. Founded in 2002, JASS has since its beginnings used Feminist Popular Education (FPE) to foster impactful on-ground organising, strengthen women and marginalised communities’ leadership, and build cross-movement and transnational alliances and networks for local to global influence. As a majority world led organisation, JASS has in-depth programmes in 12 countries and a broad reach across three regions - Southern and East Africa, Mesoamerica, and Southeast Asia.

Across all our work, we create enabling and safe environments for activists, social movement actors and civil society organisations at the forefront of rights-based struggles. Our work is localised, which means that we start with the perspectives, demands, and knowledge of women as they continue to respond to economic and social crises including rising poverty and discrimination with creativity and innovation. We support and accompany women human right defenders, including young women, women workers, LBTQI+ activists, Indigenous women, rural women, urban women, women living with HIV, women defending land and territory, and other marginalised identities to become stronger leaders, to be better organised and resourced, more strategic in holding power holders to account, and ultimately to have greater impact in ushering more democratic and sustainable solutions to the challenges we are being faced with locally to globally.