Title |
Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? Assessing the
Role of Donors in the Promotion of Women’s Rights and the Support of
Women’s Rights Organizations |
Author |
Clark, C., Sprenger, E., VeneKlasen, L., of Just
Associates in collaboration with Alpizar Duran, L. and Kerr, J. of
AWID |
Publication
Date |
February 2006 |
Publisher |
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development
(AWID) |
Short
Summary |
Over the past ten years, funding support for women's
rights organisations has declined among almost all funding sectors.
Bilateral and multilateral agencies channel resources to national
governments rather than to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Some
foundations are giving fewer, but bigger grants. Funding is directed to
country-based work rather than to regional or international initiatives.
As a result, many women's organisations are struggling to survive.
However, support from corporate foundations, family foundations and
individual donors is on the rise. This report is the result of an ongoing
action research initiative launched by the Association for Women's Rights
in Development (AWID). It aims to explore trends in the funding landscape
to propose possible strategies for women's organisations to get the
resources they need to advance in their work. Recommendations include that
women's groups in donor countries should lobby their governments for
increased support for the women's rights agenda, and women's organisations
themselves should build more on their fundraising skills. Women's groups
should think 'big and bold' in terms of their fundraising attitude and
devise ways in which to measure and document the impact of their work and
the social change they are aiming for. This publication will soon be
available in Spanish, French and Arabic. |
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