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An In-depth Look At The Funding Landscape For Women’s
Rights And The Powerful Impact Of Resources In The Hands Of Women’s
Organizations
AWID’s new
research provides an in-depth analysis of the current funding trends and
actors impacting women’s rights organizing, the financial status of women’s
organizations around the world, and the collective impact of women’s rights
organizations, when supported in a meaningful and strategic way, to build
women’s collective power for change and advance women’s rights.
Watering the Leaves, Starving
the Roots paints the funding landscape for women’s
organizations, underlining key trends and offering an updated analysis of how
diverse funding sectors are supporting women’s rights and gender equality. For
the first time, this third report in our FundHer series
also includes results from an in-depth survey of 43 women’s funds as well as
findings from the 2011 FundHer survey of more than 1000 women’s organizations
from all regions of the world.
One of the trends discussed in Watering
the Leaves, Starving the Roots is the growing role and impact of “new
actors,” including corporate sector actors, in supporting women and girls.
Given the significance and prominence of this trend, we undertook expanded
research, profiled in New Actors, New Money, New
Conversations: A Mapping of Recent Initiatives for Women and Girls.
This mapping illuminates key characteristics of 170 different partnership
initiatives focused on women and girls. The report provides a preliminary
analysis of opportunities, and potential challenges that many of these
initiatives may encounter to create sustainable positive change in the lives of
women and girls. The report also discusses considerations for forging “new
conversations” with new actors going forward.
Finally, one of the questions we often
hear in response to our research on funding trends for women’s organizations
is, “Why does support for women’s organizations matter; isn’t it enough to
support women’s empowerment through other kinds of organizations?” Women Moving Mountains,
our survey of the aggregate impact of the women’s organizations that received
support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs MDG3 Fund, responds to this
question by demonstrating the kind of huge reach and transformative changes
that are possible when organizations working to build women’s collective power
for change receive significant, strategic resources. The MDG3 Fund experience
holds lessons for other funders in terms of effective, quality approaches to
creating change for gender equality; as well as lessons for women’s
organizations, in the power of collectively “making our case” for sustainable
long-term funding.
It is our hope that the information, ideas
and analysis in these reports contribute to catalyzing more and new
conversations on the effective use of financial and other resources for
advancing women’s rights and the crucial role and importance of women’s rights
organizations in that process. We encourage and welcome feedback and questions
at fundher@awid.org.
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