For over 22 years WRO has been working through its mandate to promote equal participation, decision-making and leadership in ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, catalyzing systemic change, eradicating poverty and violence against women and girls, protecting child rights, improving access to health and education, addressing climate change, combating violent extremism, driving peaceful coexistence, reconciliation and equal and fair pathways to justice, building trust, tolerance, and reintegration, engaging youth, building capacities of local governments and strengthening sustainability of civil society, and shaping norms for localization development.

As a national and regional expert in holistic individual, family and community participation and empowerment, WROs efforts have shed light locally and marginalized groups rights in Iraq and the Middle East through initiatives that directly impact tens of thousands of families each year including though provision of lifesaving support and developmental dignified solutions and services that drive individual and collective healing, integration, inclusion, self-resiliency, self-efficacy, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence with dignity and care.

In partnership with local, regional, and global civil society, international organizations, and government bodies, WRO has effectively contributed to meeting individual and community needs through holistic, nexus-driven multi-sectoral programming. WRO has over a 22 year history of collaborative work at the national, regional and international level where in partnership with local, regional, and global civil society, international organizations, and government bodies, has effectively contributed to meeting individual and community needs through holistic, nexus-driven multi-sectoral programming.

These partnerships include IOM, UNICEF, UNDEF, UNIDO, UNOPS, UNFPA, UNHCR, UN Women, USPRM, USAID, DANIDA, Global Affairs Canada, US Embassy Regional Reconstruction and Provincial Teams, Chemonics, DCEO, Cordaid, German Government, Malteser International, ASODH,  Government of Japan, IRC, the Global Fund, WVI, Islamic relief, COS, Global Medic, DRC, NDI, LWF, IRI, DCA, DRC,  and the Iraqi Civil Society Program.

Through its engagements and partnerships WRO has gained extensive international knowledge and experience Operationally in: Governance, Donor Relations, Finance Management, Compliance and Quality Management, Procurement and Logistics Management, Administration Management, H/R Management, Security Management and Programmatically in Donor Relations, MEAL Management, Advocacy, Multi-Sectorial Programming, AAP, Humanitarian Policies, Standards, and Protocols, PCM, Program and Portfolio Management, Change Management, Proposal and Reporting, Coordination, etc.

WRO engages in active participation and engagement in the relevant local clusters, working groups, and humanitarian transitional tasks forces including; Governorate-level, District-Level, and National Protection, GBV and CP, Livelihoods, MHPSS, Clusters and Working Groups in Erbil, Dohuk and Ninewa in addition to the national Legal Working Group (LWG), Child Safeguarding Working Group (CSGWG), and Networks, including the Adolescent Girls Taskforce (AGTF), GBV Information Management Taskforce (GBVIMS), Technology-Facilitated GBV Task Force (TFGBVTF), Case Management Task Force (CMTF), Returns Working Group (RWG), Peace-Building and Reconciliation Working Group (PBRWG), Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Task Force, and with the NGO Coordination Committee of Iraq (NCCI). WRO also continued to actively engaged as an official member with the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (ACPHA) and the Association of International Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP). Furthermore, WRO has previously had the honor to serve as the Chair on the Executive Board of the NGO Coordination Committee of Iraq (NCCI), Co-Chair of the Adolescent Girls Taskforce, and observer member of the Humanitarian Pool Fund (IHPF) and the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT).