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Global Fund for Women

The Global Fund for Women aims at advancing the rights of women and girls worldwide by increasing their resources by investing in women-led organizations and women’s collective leadership for change. The Fund envisions a sustainable world in which women and girls have resources, voice, choice and opportunities to realize their human rights.

The Global Fund for Women believes that women are powerful catalysts for change and that strong women’s organizations and movements make transformative shifts in power that are crucial to women realizing their rights and creating lasting solutions to the world’s problems.

Critical Areas of Interest

  1. Zero Violence.
  2. Economic & Political Empowerment.
  3. Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights.

Success stories of supported projects

  • Malawi – Khadija’s True Story of Girl Power.
  • Burma-Scars Still Remain: A Decades-Old Story.
  • India-Wedding Crashers Shine a Spotlight on Child Marriage.

Prioritized countries

  • Asia and the Pacific
    • South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
    • Southeast Asia (Burma and Thai border areas, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia)
    • Pacific Island Countries
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • The Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia)
    • Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)
    • Eastern Europe (Russia – North Caucasus, Ukraine)
    • South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia)
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • México and Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
    • Caribbean (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica)
    • Andean Region (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia)
    • Southern Cone (Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina)
  • Middle East and North Africa
    • North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia)
    • The Gulf Countries (Bahrain, Yemen)
    • Middle East: (Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syrian women refugees)
    • Turkey
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Great Lakes (Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda)
    • Mano River Region (Liberia, Sierra Leone)
    • Tanzania
    • Northern Uganda
    • Nigeria
    • The Sahel Region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger)
    • Select grantees and networks in Kenya

Eligibility Criteria

  • It is a group of women working together.
  • The group should be governed, directed, and led by women.
  • The primary focus of the group should be in advancing women’s equality and human rights.
  • The group should not be based in USA.

To submit your project read the guidelines and submit the project proposal online or send via email and postal address provided on the website.

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