Amazing to see 10 women’s rights organisations come together and share learning about the impact of flexible funding through the Women’s Rights Fund. The Women’s Rights Fund provides 3-year, flexible funding to community organisations so they can invest in their own priorities. Our partners work on a range of issues, including emergency aid, support to survivors of violence, access to healthcare and women’s political participation. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e3CKx5mp ELEVATE HER, Desire Youth Initiative, Restoring Dignity Foundation (RDF), Mombasa Young Mothers CBO, WETEC Kenya, CDTD, Centre for Domestic Training and Development Kenya., Badili Africa, Association of Women in Agriculture, Kenya (AWAK), Association For Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya (AWEIK) Mona Mehta, Beatriz Guimaraes Jacquie Migide, Fredrick Otieno Purity Jebor Anthony Irungu, Annvera Kananu, Chama Nshindano Mwandalesa
Ten women's rights organisations. Two cities. One thing they share: the women running them decide what their communities need, and the funding follows. Four of them no longer receive funding from the Women's Rights Fund. They came to our convening anyway. Badili Africa, the Association of Women in Agriculture, Kenya (AWAK), the Association For Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya (AWEIK), and Indigenous Resource Management Organization. The funding ended; the work didn't. That is what the Women's Rights Fund is built to do; hand over flexible money and the power to decide how it is spent, then let organisations outgrow you. Most funding does the opposite. It arrives tied to activities someone else designed, on timelines someone else set, and it leaves organisations weaker than it found them. good at reporting, thin on everything else. Last week took us to Nairobi and Mombasa. We met women who survived violence and now run the services that catch the next woman. Grandmothers. Young mothers finishing school with babies on their hips. Women farming, mining, organising. Then two days in one room on safe programming and gender transformative approaches. What works, what is hard, what nobody has figured out yet. We finished at Mombasa Young Mothers' fourth anniversary, watching students graduate. Trust the organisations. Fund them properly. Get out of the way. Across the week: ELEVATE HER, Desire Youth Initiative, Restoring Dignity Foundation (RDF), Mombasa Young Mothers CBO, WETEC Kenya, @Build and Elighten Communities Initiative, CDTD, Centre for Domestic Training and Development Kenya. Mona Mehta Jacquie Migide Fredrick Otieno Purity Jebor Anthony Irungu Annvera Kananu Chama Nshindano Mwandalesa Oxfam
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