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Open Society Institute - Soros
Foundation
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PROGRAM
Advancing
Women's Rights Via Strategic Partnership Grants
Guidelines - http://www.soros.org/initiatives/women/focus_areas/strategic/guidelines
From 1997–2006, the OSI Women’s Program helped build the capacity and sustainability of the women’s movement in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (fSU). In 2007, the Women’s Program, in collaboration with national and regional Soros foundations, and regional directors’ offices, identified groups in the Middle East/North Africa, Africa, Latin America, and Asia to fund, with the focus on gender and transitional justice as well as multiple discriminations against women, while maintaining its partnerships in CEE/fSU.
To build upon this work, from 2008 to 2010, the International Women's Program will continue to support cutting-edge strategic women’s rights initiatives in countries where OSI works, in addition to awarding grants to key partners globally and ongoing institutional partners in CEE/fSU.
This initiative includes the following areas:
Cutting-Edge Rights-Based Initiatives
To support targeted funding for cutting-edge initiatives that indicate courage
of human rights defenders or organizations calling for respect for the rights
of particularly marginalized or vulnerable groups in societies around the
world. Examples of target groups which may receive funding in this category
include the following: lesbian and bisexual women, women with mental
disabilities, minorities or “lower-caste” women (e.g., Dalits), women
prisoners, and domestic workers. For more information, please see the "Advancing Women's Rights via Strategic
Partnership" grant guidelines.
Sustaining the Work of Key Strategic Women’s Rights Partners
To maximize responsive funding to grassroots women’s groups and further promote
sustainability of women’s rights movements globally, the International Women's
Program seeks to provide core grants to a number of women’s funds (especially
in countries without a strong tradition of local philanthropy) and to
multiregional or national women’s organizations that carry out advocacy work. Proposal
submissions under this focus area are by invitation only (no inquiries
accepted).
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