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Global Fund for Women Priorities
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Women/Gender,Others PRIORITIES:We make the greatest impact for women’s rights when we focus on the issues that make a vital difference for women and girls. When women and girls are free from the fear of violence—when they are empowered—when they control decisions about their own bodies—they soar. To maximize our impact in defending and expanding hard won gains in women’s rights, Global Fund’s grantmaking will focus on three critical areas: Zero Violence:We fund and advocate for women’s and girls’ participation, empowerment, and peace building while challenging laws, policies, cultures, and behavior that perpetuate violence, discrimination, and abuse. Economic & Political Empowerment:We support women’s efforts for economic independence and meaningful livelihoods. We also support advocacy for economic and legal reform and women’s equal participation in local and national elections and economies. We support democracy movements and efforts to secure land, labor, and property rights. Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights: We support campaigns, direct services, advocacy, and education to influence attitudes and achieve policy change that secures women’s and girls’ full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. As Global Fund invests in the future, we will partner with women’s rights organizations that use at least one of three tools or a combination of them – technology, education, and leadership – to achieve lasting changes for women and girls in our three focus areas. An overview of each of the tools follows. Technology:Our ability to advance the rights of women and girls will be dependent on the proficiency of women’s rights groups in using and critiquing different forms of technology. We support women’s rights organizations using technologies to advocate, connect, and increase awareness of key issues to support global women’s rights movements to address issues like security, advocacy, and documenting abuses. This includes use of social media, video, and digital platforms, traditional media, and communication technology (e.g., community radio, mobile phones), sustainable and clean energy technologies (e.g., solar stoves), water and sanitation technologies, education technology tools, etc. Education: Education plays an integral role in empowering women and girls, and its impact goes beyond individuals. We support women’s rights organizations that use a variety of educational approaches to help build girls’ and women’s knowledge, skills, self-confidence, and agency. We also support women’s rights organizations that use education, training, and advocacy to raise public awareness, change attitudes, and mobilize community support for girls’ and women’s empowerment. Leadership:To exercise real political power and societal impact, women must take leadership roles—in protest, advocacy, organization, and mobilization. We support grant partners expanding meaningful spaces for girls and women to meet, strategize, organize, and enable intergenerational collaboration. The Global Fund receives over 2,500 proposals each year and awards about 500 grants annually. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to provide funding to all the groups that meet our criteria. We do, however, give priority to women's groups that might particularly benefit from our support. These include groups that:
In addition, please note that the Global Fund does NOT fund the following:
EXCEPTIONS:Women-focused projects within mixed-gender organizations may occasionally receive support from the Global Fund if they work with marginalized groups: for example, women within groups of people with disabilities or women within LGBTQI organizations.
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