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THE STATUS OF FINANCING FOR WOMEN'S
RIGHTS ORGANIZING & GENDER EQUALITY
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Watering The Leaves, Starving The Roots
The Status of Financing for Women's Rights
Organizing & Gender Equality
By Angelika Arutyunova and Cindy Clark
07/10/2013 - This new report from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development provides the latest analysis on the funding trends impacting women’s rights organizing and the financial status of women’s organizations around the world.
Based on a survey of over 1,100 women’s organizations in
every region of the world, the report helps make sense of the rapidly changing
funding landscape and makes recommendations for how to mobilize more and better
resources for women’s rights organizing through a feminist collective resource
mobilization approach.
Key Funding Trends
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Women and girls are in the public eye, recognized as
key agents in development, as never before.
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Vast resources are becoming available under the broad
umbrella of ‘development’ and there is significant interest in ‘investing’ in
women and girls.
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Mechanisms and sources of development financing and
philanthropy are becoming increasingly diversified, but economic growth and
return on investment are the priority, with human rights and wellbeing taking a
backseat.
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Private sector interest in and approaches to
development, philanthropy and women and girls is infiltrating traditional
development and funding sectors, raising questions for how women’s
organizations can critically engage with this trend.
Watering the Leaves and Starving the Roots
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The current spotlight on women and girls has had
relatively little impact on improving the funding situation for a large
majority of women’s organizations around the world. In 2010, the median annual
income of over 740 women’s organizations around the world was USD 20,000.
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The ‘leaves’—individual women and girls—are receiving
growing attention without support for ‘the roots’ - the sustained, collective
action by feminists and women’s rights activists and organizations that has
been at the centre of women’s rights advances throughout history.
Contact authors Angelika Arutyunova and Cindy Clark at
fundher@awid.org if you
want to learn more about this report and launch it in your community.
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