Plenary Session: Where is the Money for Women's Rights: A Funders Forum

The Forum is now over, but we encourage you to check the "Latest News" section of this site for selected session writeups, transcripts, and other post-forum information. Updates will be posted throughout December and January.

Forum Programme

Friday, October 28, 7:30-9:30pm

You won't want to miss this dialogue amongst representatives of the funding community on how to leverage more funding for gender equality and women's rights. For the past year AWID has been conducting a fascinating piece of research on funding trends related to women's rights work. We have looked at trends in the past decade across different funding sectors from bilateral/multilateral development agencies, large independent foundations and international NGOs to women's funds, corporate foundations, family foundations and individuals. Through surveys with our large membership we have assessed how women's organisations and the work they do have been affected in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern and Central Europe and countries in transition. AWID is launching this highly anticipated research report and the action-initiative to emerge from it at this important plenary.

Come and hear about some of the surprising results of this research and what the funding community has to say about the future of financial resources for women's organising worldwide, the politics of funding, and opportunities for new alliances between the funding community and women's movements.

19:30-21:30: Ballroom 1 and 2

Presenters:
Sylvia Borren, Director, Novib-Oxfam Netherlands
Maria Eitel, President, Nike Foundation
Patti O'Neill, Special advisor, Network on Gender Equality, Development Assistance Committee, OECD
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, The Global Fund for Women
Dr Rosalia Sciortino, Director, Southeast Asia Regional Program, The Rockefeller Foundation

Moderated by Joanna Kerr, Executive Director, AWID, with presentations by researchers Cindy Clark and Ellen Sprenger (Just Associates) and closing remarks by Bisi Adeleye Fayemi, AWID President, and Executive Director and co-founder of the African Women's Development Fund.