FundHer Brief 2008: Money Watch For Women’s Rights Movements And Organizations
This publication aims to provide an updated snapshot of key funding trends impacting women’s rights organizations.
In 2004 AWID launched its Strategic Initiative Where is the Money for Women’s Rights (WITM) to gain knowledge of the funding trends for women’s rights work and to better understand how to expand the resource base for feminist movements and women’s rights organizations. Since then, we have continued to produce and disseminate key information and analyses regarding funding trends, organized a number of regional strategy meetings with feminist activists from around the world, and done advocacy work to influence the policies and practices of donors in different sectors.
With the publication of the first Fundher report in 2006, we started sharing the experiences of hundreds of women’s organizations worldwide who responded to AWID’s surveys, as well as analyzing the dynamics within various funding sectors. In the second Fundher report published in 2007, we deepened the regional analysis of the funding landscape, featured the challenges and opportunities in different funding sectors and started exploring strategies that could promote the financial sustainability of women’s movements around the globe.
As a complement to those reports, the present document aims to provide an updated snapshot of key funding trends impacting women’s rights organizations. We also try to paint a clearer picture of who these organizations are, their characteristics and the issues they identify as challenges and priorities. Put these two pictures together and they raise important questions for reflection around the kinds of donor support needed to effectively reach and support the broad diversity of women’s organizations and movements globally, highlighting the importance of building bridges and learning from collaborative resource mobilization experiences.
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