Category: grantees

TAMWA was formed in 1987 to promote the improvement of women and children’s social, political and economic status through media advocacy. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will undertake empowerment activities for women and young women interested in politics through training, mentoring and coaching to increase the number of women aspiring to and capable of becoming good leaders.

SIHA Network was started by a group of Somali and Sudanese women living in conflict in the 1990s with the aim of giving grassroots women a voice to address subordination and violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa. With this renewal grant, the organisation will strengthen the capacities of 300 street vendors in Kampala and Hargeisa in leadership, networking and training skills; to advocate for access to resources for women street vendors and to plan national advocacy campaigns to end all forms of violence against women and increase their political participation

SIGI was established in 1998 to empower and protect women and girls, to increase their opportunities to actively engage in their own life, based on international standards as well as the Jordanian constitution. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will increase women’s knowledge on the benefits and protections they have under the new amendments to the income tax law, labour law, civil retirement law and social security law in Jordan by training and working with community based organisations and groups, young women activists and working women

Raising Voices was founded by sexual health professionals in 1990 to figure out how to prevent violence against women and children. The organisation’s work has resulted in two ground-breaking approaches: the Good School Toolkit and the SASA! Activist Kit, both evidence-based and now used in more than 30 countries around the world. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will help change social norms that perpetuate Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) by enhancing feminist analysis in addressing the problem.

NAGAAD Women’s Network is a network of 45 women’s organisations in Somaliland founded in 1997 to serve as a collective voice for women and children to demand their rights as equal citizens of Somaliland. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will advocate for the passage of electoral law (Law No. 20) that has a provision for a leadership quota system for women by working closely with women candidates, the 3 political parties in Somaliland, the parliament, government structures, women’s rights organisations and community women.

Kafa (enough) Violence & Exploitation (KAFA) was established in 2005 to eliminate all forms of exploitation and violence against women and girls and to achieve substantive gender equality through a combination of advocacy for law reform, influencing public opinion, research, empowering women and children survivors of violence, and providing them with social, legal, and psychological support. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will advocate for better systems and regulations around Women Migrant Domestic Workers’ labour rights in Lebanon.

Gender Links was founded in 2001 by Southern African gender and media activists who identified the lack of a gender perspective in media work. Gender Links (GL) is committed to an inclusive, equal and just society in the public and private space in accordance with the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. GL was awarded a top up grant to enable the organisation enhance her knowledge management, learning, innovation and sustainability

Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) was established by women lawyers in 1992 upon their realisation that women were failing to access justice due to their inability to understand court procedures and the legal requirements which prejudiced their cases. ZWLA was therefore formed to respond to women’s practical and strategic needs through legal service provision and advocacy for laws that protect women’s rights. The organisation was awarded a renewal grant to advocate for the review of the marriage law and the passage of the Termination of pregnancy bill in Zimbabwe. Part of the funds would be used for advocating for social norm changes in project communities using community education as well as social media.

YOWLI Burundi was founded in 2011 by student leaders at the University of Burundi to create a platform of young people committed to solving the great challenges that undermine youth and society at the local, national, and international levels. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will tackle social norms that normalise the exploitation of domestic workers especially the violation of the rights of female children domestic workers and advocate for the ratification of Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, a convention that provides guidelines and frameworks for promoting the rights of women domestic workers.

TAM was founded in 2003 by a group of women media specialists who felt there was a severe shortage of programs and information/materials on social and feminist issues in Palestine. With the Leading from the South grant, the organisation will campaign for the review and redraft of the new Palestinian Constitution to take into consideration the needs and rights of women through capacity building workshops for the project coalition, an educational campaign on the constitution, awareness raising media content and the signing of a petition for a gender sensitive constitution.