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Short Summary
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| Title |
Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? Assessing
the Role of Donors in the Promotion of Women’s Rights and the Support
of Women’s Rights Organizations |
| Author |
Clark, C., Sprenger, E., VeneKlasen, L., of Just
Associates in collaboration with Alpizar Duran, L. and Kerr, J. of
AWID |
| Publication
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October 2005 |
| Publisher |
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development
(AWID) |
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Short Summary |
Over the past ten years, funding support for
women's rights organisations has declined among almost all funding
sectors. Bilateral and multilateral agencies channel resources to
national governments rather than to non-governmental organisations
(NGOs). Some foundations are giving fewer, but bigger grants. Funding
is directed to country-based work rather than to regional or international
initiatives. As a result, many women's organisations are struggling
to survive. However, support from corporate foundations, family foundations
and individual donors is on the rise. A large number of organisations
are citing 'women's funds' as an important source of grants for women's
rights work. Amongst other things, this report recommends that in
order for more resources for women's rights initiatives to be mobilised,
women's groups in donor countries should lobby their governments for
increased support for the women's rights agenda and women's organisations
themselves should build more on their fundraising skills. Women's
groups should think 'big and bold' in terms of their fundraising attitude
and devise ways in which to measure and thereby show the social change
that they are working for. |
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