The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) closed in July with the announcement that US $40 billion was pledged to advance gender equality worldwide. Four months after the GEF, we are still waiting for UN Women to make the full details of funding commitments publicly accessible.
The need to resource feminist movements in all their boldness and power has never been greater. Our new Where Is The Money? brief shows just how much women’s rights organizations and feminist movements continue to be systematically under-resourced.
While we advocate for more and better resources for feminist movements, we must also name and claim the numerous and powerful ways feminist movements fuel social change with our own resources. In partnership with feminist activists from Argentina, Costa Rica, Georgia, and Indonesia, AWID co-curated a conversation on feminist experiences and learning on how to mobilize resources that are autonomous, and self-generated by and for feminist movements.
