South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) is an independent, non-partisan, and inclusive civil society organization and dialogue and advocacy platform established in 2003. SAWID is dedicated to improving the status of women by engaging National Government, the Private Sector, Civil Society Organs (including non- governmental organisations, community-based organisations and faith-based organisations) and donors, and forming partnerships to shape development agendas. 

 What do we seek to accomplish?

• South African Women in Dialogue has been at the forefront of piloting an action learning poverty eradication approach in three municipalities that builds human and institutional capacity while professionalising work women often do for free.
• Recommendations from a 2006 Poverty Eradication  study tour, made to cabinet, parliament, and women decision makers, included the need for a Women’s Ministry, a National Planning Ministry and a Comprehensive Poverty Strategy that would be targeted and coordinated centrally in order to graduate identified poor families from poverty. All of these recommendations have materialised.
• A Strategic Repositioning Process undertaken in April 2015 focused SAWID's future energies on national, provincial and local development dialogues, advocacy, including for an inclusive macro-economic framework that recognizes and remunerates the unpaid work of women, and collaboration of civil society initiatives towards the goals of quality of life, growth and equality of women and poor families.