The FINS-WINS ASBL is a movement of reflection and concrete action, working to promote the situation and condition of women in both the North and the South. Its team, of women and men from multi and transdisciplines, brings the reflections together and guides the action on the ground. This team of scientists and experts is headed by Professor Van der Starre, graduate of the Houston Institute and the University of Maastricht, and currently head of the Anaesthetics-Cardiology Unit at Stanford University. The President-Founder, Martine Cécile Ngo Nyemb-Wisman is a graduate in Political science and development studies from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), where she is currently working on her PhD.
The aim of the FINS ASBL is to work as an interface, encouraging women to contribute actively and proactively to resolving the contemporary international issues that drain our democratic systems and destroy or destabilize so many development projects, threatening the peace, the security and the solidarity that exists between peoples.
Vision, Philosophy and mission
Statutory objectives
To identify the influence and impact of women’s organizations in sociopolitical and economic sectors through empirical research. To understand and promote the feminine dynamic within participation in human development.
To advocate the convergence of women’s associations through conferences and workshops, in order to achieve a wider and more efficient effect. To support the work of women’s associations and to participate in integrated community development.
To collaborate, when appropriate, with women’s organizations whose objectives work towards the ideals of peace, solidarity
and development. To promote solidarity and cooperation between women’s associations in the world, to the exclusion of
any political, racial or religious discrimination
