Category: grantees

Voice of Mitooma is an association of female environmental journalists and environmental human rights defenders (HRDs). The organisation was founded in 2016 by two young female journalists to empower women to manage the world in a sustainable way. The funds from this grant will be used to mobilize grassroots women to resist environmental injustices, build protection networks and advocate for the promotion and protection of women’s environmental rights in Uganda.

Une Femme qui en Soulève une Autre (FESA) is a women-led organisation founded in 2002 by seven women committed to the fight against discrimination and violence faced by rural women. FESA aims to work with grassroots communities to dismantle the barriers that prevent women and girls from fully realising their rights including accessing justice and economic rights. The grant is to help mobilise women farmers, train them on their rights, organise them into cooperatives and support them to engage stakeholders on their rights to land. The women’s cooperatives will also be trained in climate smart agriculture and in the use of technology to enhance agricultural activities.

Transgender Equality Uganda (TEU) was started in April 2011 by Karungi Beyonce, a Ugandan transgender woman and a trans woman activist after noticing that transgender women’s issues were being neglected by the Ugandan LGB movement and trans sex workers’ issues were being ignored by the sex work movement in Uganda. With this grant, TEU will advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of trans women and girls. Part of the grant would be used to commemorate the 2021 International Women’s Day Celebration.

Together We Can Foundation (TWCF) is a women-led organisation founded in 2012 by Bukavu women and girls from University of Bukavu with the aim to create a safe community by empowering women with information on gender-based violence, women’s rights, health promotion, livelihood issues among others. The grant awarded will be used to empower women and girls with greater access to NCDs information and services and to establish improved coordination and participation of key stakeholders in NCDs prevention.

CHESO was started in 2006 by a group of poor women who were concerned and committed to prevent the high number of school girl drop-outs due to neglect, sexual abuse, exploitation and mental violence suffered by girls. CHESO hosts the Temeke & Kisarawe Network of Girls living with HIV. This is a network of girls and young women living with HIV/AIDS and accessing treatment. With this grant, they will organise a retreat for young women and girls living with HIV/AIDS in Temeke and Kisarawe districts of Uganda to provide them with some knowledge and skills needed to effectively take care of their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

SPPDF is a national network of women’s organisations founded in 2008 and operates in all the provinces of Burundi. SPPDF’s overall objective is to improve the living conditions of women through the promotion of civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights including the right to development. The grant awarded will be used to pilot a network of peacemakers in Rumonge Province engaged in various local conflict resolution mechanisms that comprehensively integrates women in all stages of the peace making processes. This new network will be used as a case study to encourage other communities to comprehensively integrate women in their peace making mechanisms. Additionally, the network will address gender inequality at the root cause of VAWG by addressing male gender norms and power disparities The project will also engage various stakeholders to localize the provisions of UNSCRs 1325 and 2250.

Sisonke is a South African sex worker-led movement that was launched in 2003 at the second national sex worker meeting in Worcester in the Western Cape. Sisonke aims to reduce stigma associated with sex work, challenge and change existing laws, policies, and practices relating to sex work, and legalise sex work. The AWDF grant will be used to strengthen the sex worker networks and movements in South Africa to ensure they are adequately capacitated to speak for themselves in addressing some of their key concerns.

Si Jeunesse Savait (SJS) is a young feminist organisation founded in 2011 and works to promote women’s rights including their rights to decision-making power and the right to bodily autonomy and integrity. The grant awarded will help to enhance the capacity of young women to advocate for the right of women to access safe abortion services without stigma. The project will work with other women’s rights organisations and engage traditional and religious leaders to promote attitudinal change towards women’s SRHR.

Rwasa United Youth Association (RUYA) was formed by 10 young women in 2014 after the 1994 genocide and the 1998 civil war rendered a lot of girls orphans and women widows. RUYA seeks to serve as a collaborative learning community that provides women and girls who are socially and economically disadvantaged with access to opportunities and skills which will enable them to improve their standard of living. The grant awarded is to help commemorate the 2020 WAD event and to promote access to HIV and AIDS treatment and care and psychosocial services for women living with HIV (WLHIV) and mental conditions in Rubavu district in the Western province of Rwanda.

Ripples International (RI) was founded by Mr. Chidi and Mrs Mercy Chidi-Baidoo in the year 2000. They were inspired to serve HIV affected children at a time when the HIV pandemic was killing a lot of people in Kenya. The organisation works on the protection and promotion of women’s bodily rights in Kenya and advocates against sexual violence. The grant will be used as a core grant to support the work of the institution. Ripples International will strengthen its work around the promotion and protection of women’s economic rights.