In its 2013–2014 grant-making cycle, UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality awarded grants to civil society organizations and governments around the world operating in Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia that focused primarily on women’s economic and political empowerment.
Karama, a regional NGO promoting women’s advancement based in Cairo, Egypt, received $565,000 from the Fund for Gender Equality to carry out the program Inclusive Democracy: Ensuring Women’s Political Rights in Libya, Yemen and Egypt throughout the Arab Spring. The project brought together 68 women leaders and politicians, male and female civil society representatives, trade union leaders and media officials to develop and advocate 50 recommendations submitted to Egypt’s Constitutional Committee. The Constitution passed in 2014 reflected some key proposals, and the major breakthrough was the allocation of a minimum of 25% of local council seats to women.
In 2013, The Institute of Community Health and Development (LIGHT), another grantee and NGO based in Vietnam, was also given $200,000 from the Fund for Gender Equality, specifically for women’s economic empowerment. The grant supported the LIGHT’s project, We are Women: A Rights-based Approach to Empowering Migrant Women in Vietnam, focused on the rights and social protection of female migrant workers in rural areas.
UN Trust Fund supports multi-year innovative and practical approaches that contribute to ending violence against women and girls in all forms, and the grants are distributed to countries and territories in Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and to cross-regional initiatives.
The UN Trust Fund granted $505,115 to the project Expanding Gains to Decrease and Prevent Violence against Women in the Context of HIV and AIDS carried out by Jamaica AIDS Support for Life, a NGO based in Kingston, Jamaica that focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights. With the UN Trust Fund’s financial support, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life rallied community-based and faith-based organizations to recognize the importance to end HIV/AIDS and violence against women and to bring the empowerment of women living with HIV/AIDS, LGBTI, and disabilities.
A UN Trust Fund grant made out to Medical Services in the Pacific in Fiji has allowed the effective prevention of increased violence against women and girls, such as sexual assault; issues centered on high rates of teen pregnancy were also addressed. Medical Services in the Pacific, a Fijian based charitable organization, received $117,000 for the project Women and Youth Empowered through Access to Information to Protect their Rights and Access to Services to Protect their Health. In short, the organization has successfully implemented clinical services and awareness programs that provided 20,000 women with improved access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, sexual assault and post-abuse counseling.
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