2013 AWID INNOVATION
SEED GRANTS RECIPIENTS
Following the Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s
Rights and Justice Forum held in Istanbul in April 2012, AWID disseminated a
“Call for Proposals” to all Forum participants interested in applying for a
$5000 “Innovation Seed Grant.” Seed Grants are a tradition dating back to the
2002 Guadalajara Forum aiming to support proactive members of women’s rights
movements turn creative ideas into action. This time around, the response we
receive to our call was unprecedented: Within two weeks we were inundated with
close to 300 proposals from Forum delegates, each detailing a plan to turn
ideas sparked at the Forum into concrete projects.
As you can imagine, the decision
making process was extremely difficult, but with the help and support of an
International Selection Committee, 24 winners were
selected to implement initiatives for transforming economic power. We sincerely
thank every applicant for sharing your project ideas and dreams with us—they
were amazing to read through and we wish you the best of luck with finding
future support.
It is our
pleasure to announce the following list of 2013 Innovation Seed Grant winners…
congratulations to all!
- Engendering
Tax Policies in Selected Countries in Asia, A Research-Competency-Development
& Advocacy Project, Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and
Development (JSAPMDD), Philippines
- Palestinian
Women in Israeli Civil Service: A Critical Examination of Economic,
Social, and Political Ramifications, Gender Studies Program
at Mada al-Carmel–Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Israel
- The
Bioeconomy through a Gender Lens, Global Forest Coalition, Paraguay
- Empowering
Home-based Worker Women Project, Kozadan İpeğe Ev eksenli Çalışan
Kadınlar Kooperatifi, Turkey
- Introducing
Feminist Economics to Gender and Sexual Justice Activism in Kyrgyzstan and
Georgia,
Bishkek Feminist Collective SQ (Kyrgyzstan); Independent Group of
Feminists (Georgia), Kyrgyzstan
- First
Transsexual Persons’ HR Report in Chile, Organización de Transexuales
por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (Transsexual Organization for the Dignity
of Diversity), Chile
- “Owning
my money, owning myself”, Asociación Mujeres con Voz (Association Women with a
Voice), Spain
- Basics:
Feminism and the left, Jelena Savic, Reconstruction Women’s Fund in Serbia
and Serbia for Roma Education Fund (REF), Serbia
- Creating
leaders in Feminist Economics towards the 2012 National Feminist Gathering, Centro de Apoyo para
el Movimiento Popular de Occidente (CAMPO) – REPEM (Center to Support the
Grassroots Movement in the West), Mexico
- Sex workers rights are human rights, Association of
Hungarian Sex Workers, Hungary
- Food Sovereignty (FS) and Care Economy: gender
strategies to confront income and time poverty, ONG Centro de Estudios
para la Mujer CEDEM (NGO Center for Women’s Studies), Chile
- Red Umbrella Diaries Memoir Storytelling Workshop, Red Umbrella Project,
USA
- Sex, Fun and Money, DEBOLINA DUTTA, India
- “Where’s the Money for Women’s Rights?”: A Kosovo Case
Study,
Kosova Women’s Network (KWN; 91 diverse member organizations), and Alter
Habitus (AH; a KWN member), Kosovo
- Project to support the emergence of women’s
organizations for effectively including women’s issues in development
projects,
PEJELF, Niger
- Centering Economic Justice for Caribbean Women: the
Caribbean Institute in Gender & Development: An Intensive Training
Programme, July 1-31, 2013, Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita
Barrow Unit (Caribbean Institute in Gender & Development: An Intensive
Training Programme), Barbados
- Gender, Extractive Industries and Livelihood in the
Pacific Islands with initial focus on Fiji and Papua New Guinea, PANG and potential
partners, Fiji Islands
- Set-up of the Cantine Communautaire Agricole
(Agricultural Community Warehouse) and re-launch of agro-pastoral
activities for women and girl victims of sexual violence and other
vulnerable women and girls of Kamanyola/Walungu, Conseil des
Organisations des Femmes Agissant en Synergie (Cofas), Democratic Republic
of Congo
- Using Comics for Economic, Social and Gender Justice
Advocacy,
Alliances for Africa (AfA), Nigeria
- Building a political voice for women living with HIV to
demand for increased funding for women’s human rights and social justice, International
Community of women living with HIV&AIDS Eastern Africa, Uganda
- Project on awareness raising and education to promote a
culture of peace in Cameroon as a means of recognizing the work of women
as economic operators and not as instruments of the economy, Women Peace
Initiatives, Cameroon
- Opening bank account to save money, Myanmar National
Network of Sex Workers (MNNSW), Myanmar
- Young women workers Trade Union for economic
sustainability,
Serene Secular Social Service Society (SSSSS), India
- Advocacy campaign of the national women’s network for
the recognition of the role of women in the artisanal fishing sector, Réseau national des
femmes de la pêche artisanale en Mauritanie (National Network on Women in
Fisheries in Mauritania), Mauritanie
*NB: The successful candidates, listed above, most closely met
the criteria set out in the guidelines, including:
• Initiatives showing a strong
connection to Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice
• Projects deriving inspiration directly from the 12th AWID Forum
• Proposals describing a workable methodology and a viable budget
• Ideas having potential for lasting impact and growth
• Initiatives with strategic relevance to the 12th AWID Forum theme
(‘compelling logic or idea’ behind the proposal that was not just relevant to
Transforming Economic Power, but seemed like it could make a creative
contribution)
• Applications that stood out for their levels of innovation, originality
and/or creativity