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Is there really too little money to support existing women's rights initiatives? Is it that women's rights groups are not bold enough in their fundraising strategies? Is it that donors simply don't understand the urgency and importance of this work? Or is it that we, as progressive women's organizations and movements, need to change ourselves to respond better to the current challenges??? Join us for ...
MONEY&MOVEMENTS
International Meeting
November 9-11, 2006 | Mexico

The Money & Movements meeting is now over, but we encourage you to check the Resources section of this site for an archive of key presentations, photos, audiofiles (MP3 format) as well as selected PowerPoint slides. Some exceptional resources have come out of the meeting, and we are pleased to be sharing these online. Updates and translations of materials will be maintained continuously over the coming weeks.

AWID thanks the almost 1200 individuals who submitted information to the "Where's the Money" 2006 survey. We'll be sharing the results on our Resources page for all to know and learn where the money really is for women's rights.

AWID and Semillas invited you to join us in Mexico November 9-11, 2006 for a groundbreaking meeting of the international women's movement, where over 300 participants convened to learn about the funding situation for women's rights, strategize with partners and progressive donors around funding challenges and opportunities, and began the critical work of learning how to increase existing resources and mobilize new support for women's rights work. This meeting was a key follow-up activity to AWID's action-research initiative, Where is the money for women's rights?

What were the objectives of this meeting? The meeting provided a space where women's rights advocates from diverse backgrounds and working on different issues were able to engage with each other and with like-minded donors, in order to:

• Share updated information and deepen our analysis of the current funding situation for women's rights;
• Frankly discuss how feminist and women's organizations and movements must change their relationship with money as a way of becoming stronger and more effective;
• Develop creative and innovative strategies to increase the access, quantity and quality of funding for women's organizations and movements globally.

What did the program look like? Unlike the AWID Forum, the sessions were not solicited through a proposal process. Instead, an international planning committee designed a comprehensive program and selected speakers.

The program included:

• Thought-provoking plenaries;
• In-depth breakout sessions for strategy-development;
• Simulation games to fast-track learning;
• Capacity and skills-building sessions; and
• Debates that stimulated discussion.

In addition to the main program, the meeting hosted book launches, artistic and cultural activities and, as with all AWID events, there was plenty of space and opportunity for informal networking and alliance-building.

All plenaries and selected breakout sessions were interpreted into English, Spanish and French.

	The Association for Women's Rights in Development is an international membership organization that works to connect, inform, and mobilize feminists and other advocates for women's rights and gender equality.
	Fundher - Money Watch for Women's Rights: An action-research initiative of AWID with Just Associates.
	Semillas is a women's grantmaking organization based in Mexico. Its mission is to effect social change that benefits women and girls.