Another significant factor of the work in Jamaica is that it demonstrates the potential of the creation of alliances of women - focused on issues of poverty and social change - which transcend the usual boundaries of class and party. This process has recently been taken a step further with the launching of the Association of Women's Organizations in Jamaica (AWOJA) - Jamaica's first umbrella organization for women's groups. Its membership is representative of the widest cross-section of women's organizations anywhere in the region. Its aims and objectives make it clear that it intends to pursue an activist role, and the presence in its membership of groups like the Organization of Women for Progress (OWP) and SISTREN, along with the women's arms of the two main parties, will help to ensure that it makes a significant contribution to the process of social change.

Peggy Antrobus, Survival Strategies and Women's Organizations, Cornell, 1988