1. Where is the Money for Women’s Rights: Assessing Resources and the Role of Donors
Just Associates and Association for Women’s Rights In Development (AWID), 2006
(Spanish, French, & English)
Over the past 10 years, funding support for women's rights organizations has declined in almost all funding sectors. This report explores trends in the funding landscape and proposes possible strategies for women's organizations to access the resources that they need to support 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 organizations themselves should build more on their fundraising skills. Women's groups should think 'big and bold' in terms of theirfundraising attitude and devise ways in which to measure and document the impact of their work and the social change they are aiming for. (Adapted from Siyanda,UK – www.siyanda.org)
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2. Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements Worldwide
Association for Women’s Rights In Development (AWID), 2007
Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilized to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? Based on a survey of almost 1,000 women's organizations worldwide, the report analyzes funding trends, provides information on donors who fund women's rights work, and offers practical fundraising guidelines. It analyses the challenges women's organizations face in raising funds from various kinds of donors: bilateral and multilateral development agencies, international non-governmental organizations, women's funds, large private foundations, individual giving and small private foundations, and corporate philanthropy. (Adapted from Siyanda,UK – www.siyanda.org)
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3. Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organizations.
Helen Collinson, Helen Derbyshire, Brita Fernandez Schmidt, Tina Wallace
UN Gender and Development Network, 2008
Aimed at highlighting key questions emerging from civil society about the way new aid systems promote, marginalize or exclude gender equality and women's rights issues, this report reflects a diversity of the views from organizations across the world. It reveals that African and some Asian respondents expected funding levels to continue or slightly increase, whereas those in Latin America reported that donors were pulling out, in favor of Africa. In terms of activities, the report reveals that funding is going towards governance, democracy and HIV/AIDS focused initiatives, rather than service delivery and community development. Above all, it reveals that women's organizations feel threatened as the focus of funding moves in the direction of larger grants, tighter, short-term targets,and demonstrable and 'scaled up' results. (Adapted from Siyanda,UK – www.siyanda.org).
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4. Gender Equality From Beijing to Doha: Tracking the Gender Dimension of Financing for Development
Claudia Caryevschi
International Women’s Tribune Centre, 2008
This document contains a timeline which outlines progress made on Financing for Development on an international level from a gendered perspective.
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5. Financing for Gender Equality & the Empowerment of Women: A Backgrounder
Natalie Raaber
International Women’s Tribune Centre, 2008
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