• African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
  

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Leadership, Innovation and Scaling Up: Strengthening the Capacity of African Women’s Organisations and Movements. This project aims at reaching women all over Africa with regard to decreasing violence against women and enhancing political participation by grant-giving to 150-180 women’s organisations, strengthening them and building their capacity, and building networks. The project will be implemented in 16 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

  € 5.000.000

  
  
• Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  The Hidden War Crimes; Challenging the Impunity on Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Countries of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). The project is geared towards combating violence against women with a focus on women and girls in situations of conflict. The three key outcomes are: a) cultural change and practice on impunity as it relates to sexual abuse of women and girls in pre conflict and post conflict circumstances, b) strengthening the institutions and mechanisms of justice and uphold the rule of law to protect women and girls and punish perpetrators, and c) facilitate restitution for victims of sexual crimes perpetuated particularly in conflict and post conflict situations. Countries of interest: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

  € 2.000.000

  
  
• Akina Mama wa Africa (AMwA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women’s Leadership and Movement Building in Conflict and Post Conflict Countries in Africa. The project aims to increase leadership capacities of African women leaders for effective participation and representation in decision making processes in conflict situations. AMwA will, amongst others, implement the following activities: a) providing leadership training, b) development of advocacy campaigns, c) documentation of experiences of conflict affected women to inform the policy dialogue, and d) the establishment of three regional support centres around which pertinent advocacy activities will be launched and sustained in the long term. The project will be implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity (WISE) Compact Program. WISE Compact will work with local and national women leaders and the organizations they work in. The programme aims to provide: a) a global infrastructure for shared work among Muslim women’s groups, organisations, institutions, and networks, b) religious context for Muslim women’s dialogue about, and advocacy for, their rights, c) an institutional voice for gender equality, and d) accessible knowledge about effective ways to promote the equitable ethic of Islam. The activities planned for each of the results include development of WISE Compact design, develop partnerships with Muslim women’s organisations to develop learning and training resources, implement training with marginalised women and girls and create a comprehensive WISE Compact sustainability plan. The programme will focus on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Jordan, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Administrative Areas, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Turkey.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• Asociación Coordinadora de la Mujer

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Building Gender Equity Culture for Women’s Rights Exercise in Bolivian Social Transformation Process. This project seeks to improve the implementation of the already existing laws and to put a social control mechanism in place in Bolivia. By making women aware and knowledgeable of their own rights, increasing their participation in politics as well as increasing knowledge, women may overcome the social barriers that prevent them from exercising their rights. The project will be implemented in Bolivia.

  € 750.000

  
  
• Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales CALANDRIA

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Regional Strengthening of Women’s Empowerment for Political Advocacy about their Human Rights and specially those referred to Nonviolence against Women in the Regions of Huancavelica and San Martin (Peru) and in the Municipalities of El Alto and La Paz (Bolivia). The project aims to make political and social systems respond effectively in order to revert the subordination in the power relations of women, female adolescents, and children, which is expressed mostly in violence. Activities which will be implemented are, amongst others; organising seminars, meetings, and campaigns. The project will be implemented in Bolivia and Peru.

  € 750.000

  
  
• Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of Information and Communications Technologies to Combat Violence against Women and Girls. The project aims to strengthen women's strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to combat violence against women and girls in Africa, Latin-America and Asia. The activities focus on a) mobilising key stakeholders to stop violence against women and girls by building feminist analysis into global, regional and national ICT policy processes, b) building and strengthening the capacity of women and adolescent girls and women's rights organisations to use, reclaim and shape ICTs to stop violence against women and girls, and c) creating platforms and opportunities for women and adolescent girls to critically engage with ICTs to combat violence, and as survivors of violence, to contribute towards self and collective healing.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Strengthening the Voice, Impact and Influence of Women’s Rights Activists, Organizations and Movements around the World: AWID’s Strategic Plan 2006-2010. The project aims to strengthen the position of women worldwide and contribute to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women by networking, sharing information, capacity building, and advocacy to increase the resource mobilisation for women. The project's activities will be implemented worldwide.

  € 2.850.000

  
  
• Breakthrough Trust

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Promoting Action against Discrimination, Abuse, and Violence-“PADAV”-the Stopping Point. The project intends to counter gender based violence by addressing root causes and responding to consequences of violence. The project will focus on creating community awareness through the media, trainings and production of education/information material, social mapping of communities, development of community plans, and partner/network identification. Activities will take place in India.

  € 800.457

  
  
• Centre for Public Policy (CPP)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap. The project is founded on the basis that improvements in the legal frameworks regarding women’s property rights and reforms in the inheritance laws are important, but social norms heavily influence whether these improved rights for women are effectively implemented. In order to address this gap the project aims to collect and analyse individual level asset data. The overall goal of the research intervention is to enable sex disaggregated asset data collection in national and international household surveys and to influence whether these improved rights for women are effectively implemented. The project will be implemented in three different countries and settings; Ecuador, Ghana, and India.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Regional Campaign for the Implementation of the Millenium Development Goal on Gender-equality in Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean, through the use of the Law as a Tool for Social Change. This project envisages the implementation of a regional campaign for achieving the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) on Gender Equality in Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean, through the use of the law as a tool for social change. The activities include training of lawyers, international litigation, monitoring the nation states regarding the fulfillment of their obligations and commitments with respect to the MDG, and strengthening of civil society. Emphasis lies on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Corporacion Casa de la Mujer

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  A National Strategy to Work towards a Life Free from Violence for Women, Female Adolescents and Girls amidst the Colombian Armed Conflict. This project aims to improve the human rights situation of displaced women or women at risk of displacement in Colombia, by decreasing their exposure to various forms of violence, helping them regain their land and empowering them to represent themselves in politics by providing training, counseling, and giving support. The project will be implemented in Colombia.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Count Me In!: Addressing Violence Against Women in South and Central Asia aims to adress gender inequalities which lead to violence against women, gaps in education, health and employment, and the preference for sons over daughters in South Asia. This project will offer a grassroot leadership building programme, a research programme, and an advocacy programme. It will be implemented in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic.

  € 1.050.000

  
  
• Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género; Latin American Group for Justice and Gender (ELA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Monitoring for Empowerment: Latin America Women’s Rights in the Media and the Courts of Law. The project intends to empower women by improving their awareness of women rights and knowledge of legal means to realise such rights through the establishment of country media observatories and country judicial decision observatories as well as by disseminating analysis and best practices gained from the observatories. Activities include: software design, a web page with an interactive book of court decisions, newsletters, and report publications. The project will be implemented in 6 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

  € 750.000

  
  
• Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya (FIDA-Kenya)

  Project Description	Amount Awarded
  Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in Kenya. This project promotes gender equality and empowerment of women in Kenya by adressing the problem of gender inequality in property and inheritance rights, employment opportunities, political and public participation, and gender based violence through providing legal aid, support, and training. The project will be implemented in Kenya.	€ 2.000.000

  
  
• Feminist Center for Studies and Advisory Services (CFEMEA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Promoting the Feminist Agenda in Law and in Public Policies to Improve Brazilian Women’s Lives and Citizenship. The project aims to promote a qualified and progressive dialogue with the Legislative and Executive powers in Brazil in order to advance laws and public policies that promote gender equality and social justice. Activities include: monitoring the implementation of governmental plans, advising parliamentarians and suggesting amendments, cooperating with the media, participating in debats and fora, producing materials and publishing books, carrying out studies, and giving workshops. The project will be implemented in Brazil.

  € 900.000

  
  
• Fund for Global Human Rights

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women's Rights Fund. This project aims to ensure strong, effective women’s rights organisations in every country around the world with an end goal of achieving and sustaining increased respect for women’s human rights and equality. To this end, through sub granting the applicant seeks to increase the financial resources available for women’s rights activism in countries across the world, and facilitate access to the services or tools that women’s rights activists need to be effective on the frontlines. The project will be implemented in 16 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• XFundación Puntos de Encuentro & Central American Women’s Fund

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Turning the Tide for Adolescent and Young Women’s Equality in Central America. The overall objective of this project is to increase adolescent and young women’s abilities to exercise their right to live without violence, have dignified work conditions and employment, and to actively participate in the decisions that affect their lives at the local, national, and regional levels by strengthening diverse forms of participation, leadership and advocacy, and by fostering a public opinion environment that promotes more equitable gender norms. The activities will focus on reaching women through TV and radio, supporting adolescent and young women’s groups and providing leadership training, and networking. The project focuses on El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

  € 2.000.000

  
  
• Gender Links

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Making Links for Gender Equality in Southern Africa. This project aims at achieving employment equality in the media, at increasing women's participation in parliament and local government and to combat violence against women. The activities will mainly be at policy level and include the development of action and strategy plans, workshops, trainings, and media campaigns. It will be implemented in fourteen countries of Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Global Fund for Women (GFW)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  The Breakthrough Project: Catalyzing Global Activism on MDG3. The proposed project aims to increase the availability and accessibility of resources and opportunities for organisations working on a women’s rights agenda to achieve the priority goals identified by the MDG3 Fund. A three-year special initiative will be lauched which focuses on identifying, vetting, funding, and assessing the work of grassroot women-led civil society organisations in Asia whose work advances the issues related to ending violence against women and girls, promoting women’s political participation and securing women’s economic rights, especially those related to property, inheritance and employment.

  € 2.000.000

  
  
• Huairou Commission, Women, Housing & Community

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Grounding MDG3: Centre-Staging Grassroots Women in Realizing MDG3. This project aims to scale up the leadership of grassroot women in decision making, increase political participation in development and securing land and housing. The project includes organising meetings and training grassroot leaders in order to link MDGs to community development issues. The project will be implemented in 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

  € 1.215.647

  
  
• Inter Press Service International Association (IPS)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Communicating for Change: Getting Voice Visibility and Impact for Gender Equality. The project aims to use the power of the media in achieving gender equality and empowerment of women. Activities include, amongst others, identification of NGO partners, strengthening their organisational media and communication plans, and 12 joint seminars and meetings. The activities are implemented with organisations having received MDG3 funding in several countries.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation and other Harmful Traditional Practices as forms of Gender-based Violence. This project aims to improve the health and general well-being of women and girls as a basic human right by eliminating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other harmful traditional practices through a network of NGOs. This will be accomplished through institutional strengthening of IAC, as well as by organising regional workshops and forums against FGM and other harmful traditional practices. The project will be implemented in 28 countries of Sub-Sahara Africa.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Stopping the Abuse of Power for Purposes of Sexual Exploitation: Naming, Shaming and Ending Sextortion. The project addresses the problem of the abuse of authority to extract sex from unwilling women and girls. Activities include: a) developing a toolkit which will include a step-by step guidance for analyzing a state's response, b) developing country reports, c) starting justice sector campaigns at different levels, and d) setting up a public information campaign. The project will be implemented in Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, the Philippines, and Tanzania.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Decisions for Life. This project aims to promote formal and equal employment for adolescent women who are participating or seeking work in the labour market. Activities include, amongst others; salary checks, trade union campaigns including face-to-face meetings and training sessions, and dissemination of materials. This project will be implemented in: Angola, Azarbaijan, Belarus, Botswana, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Ukraine, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  € 4.377.000

  
  
• Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Combating Violence Against Women. The project aims to improve conditions, services, and opportunities for women and girls in situations of armed conflict. The interventions seek, amongst others; a) to increase competencies of women leaders in peace building and conflict resolution practices, b) to increase women’s participating in decision making in the post conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation in the two target societies, and c) to address the needs of war affected women and girls. The project is focused on Liberia and Sudan.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• Just Associates (JASS)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women’s Movement Building: Advancing Women’s Political Participation. This project aims, as a general objective, to increase the organised participation and representation of marginalised women in politics and public administration by strengthening the skills, tools, and connections. This project will be implemented in Botswana, Burma, Cambodia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, the Philippines, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women’s Organisation, Security and Participation (WOSP). This project aims to improve the security of Women Human Rights Defenders in conflict and post conflict countries. The Foundation wants to empower them to find new strategies for increased security, outreach and visibility. Activities include training of trainers, publications, and network meetings. The project will be implemented in: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, the Middle East, South Caucasus, and Western Balkans.

  € 2.058.173

  
  
• Legal Assistance Centre (LAC)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Empowering Women through Gender Research Advocacy and Outreach in Namibia. This project seeks to promote gender equality and empowerment of women through legal research, law reform, and public outreach. The main elements of the project are: a) research on cohabitation and stepchildren, and on political developments, b) development of recommendations and input for law reform, c) advocacy and lobbying for law reform, d) widespread circulation of accessible information, e) media outreach on proposed, existing and new laws, and f) workshops for community members and local NGOs. The project will be implemented in Namibia.

  € 750.000

  
  
• MIFUMI Uganda

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women's Property Rights Project. This project aims to support women who are left behind homeless and landless after separation as a result of the fact that their rights are not secured. The project aims to: a) enable estranged and homeless widows, divorced or separated women, mothers, elderly women, women with disabilities, and HIV affected women to acquire land and property on a sustainable basis by establishing a revolving loan fund facility, b) strengthen and work with at least 40 local women’s organisations of the MIFUMI network so that they become a strong coalition that can effectively assert claims on property and inheritance rights, and delivers information, advice and support to women whose property and inheritance rights are violated, and c) implement measures and campaigns that promote equality for women under the law and non-discrimination in access to justice. The project will be implemented in Uganda.

  € 844.832

  
  
• Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa. The goal of this project is to improve rights and opportunities for women with respect to control over and ownership of land, leading to more gender equality and empowerment of women by fact finding, training & sensitization, advocacy, supporting women farmers’ networks, working through media, and providing small funds for grassroot initiatives of women farmers' associations and rural women’s networks. The project focuses on Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  € 2.782.569

  
  
• Nobel Women's Initiative

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Conflict and Militarism: Raising Women’s Voices for Peace, Equality and Justice. Objectives of the project are, amongst others, to: a) increase public awareness of violence against women in conflict situations and the role of women in political decision making, b) to demystify and to shift the public discussion, measured through media and public discourse, towards the kinds of strategies that focus on the root causes of conflict and inequality, and c) to increase the participation of women and women’s perspectives in decision-making processes. The activities include, amongst others; raising public awareness in the Arab world, advocacy and building power alliances. Countries in which the project will take place are: Burma, Central America, Guatemala, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, and Sudan.

  € 900.000

  
  
• Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Building Feminist Resistance in Iraq. The overall goal of the project is to build feminist resistance in Iraq. The activities are: a) negotiating for legislative reforms of family and inheritance laws, b) raising the secular voice of women and youth through the media, c) putting an end to violence against women through honour killings, sexual torture and tribal violence, and d) by building a women friendly youth movement in the country for egalitarian values. The project will be implemented in Iraq.

  € 750.000

  
  
• Oxfam Great Britain

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  We Can End Violence Against Women Campaign, South Asia. The campaign seeks to eliminate violence against women at all levels in society through preventing violence by eradicating existing attitudes and patriarchal values. The aim is to engage and commit individuals and organisations in South Asia which will form a constituency of 'change makers'. These individuals and organisations will be reached by public events and distributing communication materials. The part of the project which will be funded through the MDG3 Fund will be implemented in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

  € 2.000.000

  
  
• Sociedad Mexicana pro Derechos de la Mujer, A.C. Semillas

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women Leading their Destiny: an Economic Justice Approach to Advance Gender Equality in the Millennium Development Goals". The objective of this project is to address the land and property rights of indigenous women and labour circumstances of poor workers in Mexico by sub granting to indigenous women leaders and NGOs and grassroot organisations working on labour rights. The project will be implemented in Mexico.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Southern Africa AIDS Information Services (SAfAIDS)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Confronting Cultural Practises: Beliefs and Customary Laws to Promote Gender Equality and Prevent Gender Based Violence against Women and Girls in Southern Africa. The project addresses gender-based violence and enhancing sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls by developing capacity building materials, organising meetings, and providing conduct training. The project will take place in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  € 2.740.800

  
  
• TrustAfrica

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Enhancing Women's Dignity. The project aims at decreasing violence against women, women’s participation in decision making, and property and inheritance rights in Francophone countries in Africa. Through selection, capacity building, sub granting, convening, and networking with grassroot organisations, TrustAfrica tries to reach this objective. The programme will be implemented Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.

  € 992.700

  
  
• Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Protecting and Supporting Women Human Rights Defenders Through Rapid Response Grant Making, Collaborative Initiatives, Research and Advocacy. The aim of the project is the empowerment of women living in DAC countries by protecting and supporting women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in their work to realise equality of girls and women, particularly in conflict-affected environments. Through rapid response grantmaking, collaborative initiatives, research and advocacy, the UAF will enable WHRDs to undertake time-sensitive and strategic interventions that advance the human rights of women and girls in various contexts. The activities take place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

  € 1.000.000

  
  
• V-Day Egypt

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  KARAMA – Building Constituencies and Arab Women’s Leadership. The projects goal is to reduce violence against women and to increase the participation of women in the public sphere through a regional Arab women's movement. Marginalised women (including refugees and stateless women) and women and girls living in conflict situations in the project countries will be reached through organising meetings and developing action plans. The project will be located in eleven countries across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

  € 1.855.000

  
  
• West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Strengthening African Women Peace Movement Through Active Non-violence. The project aims at decreasing violence against women and increasing political participation of women in Africa, by enabling them to play a role in the peace building process. The activities, amongst others, include: trainings and workshops, producing education and communication materials as well as handbooks and training material, giving financial support to local organisations, and developing fund-raising strategies. The project will be implemented in several countries in Africa.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Women in Informal Employment: Globalisation and Organizing (WIEGO)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Investing in Equality for Working Poor Women. The aim of this project is to improve the situation of female informal workers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Europe, and Eastern Europe through unification, lobbying, advocacy, networking, sharing of information and experiences, and improvement of international labour laws, using an existing network of women's organisations worldwide.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Women in Law and Development in Africa –West Africa (WiLDAF-AO)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Using Law for Rural Women’s Empowerment in West Africa. The overall objective of the project is to enable women members of farmers’ organisations and women of the rural areas in 9 West African countries to know their rights, and to claim them in order to exercise them on the same footing as men in their family, community, and professional lives, and ensure their application for the benefit of women in their respective environment. This goal will be achieved by training 540 women members of farmers’ organisations who can raise awareness provide support to rural women to access their rights and stop violence against women and campaigns on women’s rights and gender equality. The countries this project will cover are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Women living under Muslim Laws (WLUML)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Women Reclaiming and Re-defining Cultures: Asserting Rights over Body, Self, and Public Spaces. The main goal of the project is to strengthen women’s individual and collective struggles for equality and their rights, especially in Muslim contexts through providing information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to be derived from Islam. The countries where this project will be implemented are: Afghanistan, China (including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Paktistan, the Philippines, Senegal, Sudan, and Turkey.

  € 1.500.000

  
  
• Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Continuation and Scaling-up Core of the Overall Programme. The organization advocates for the investigation and prosecution of gender based crimes by the International Criminal Court in conflict situations. The applicant works towards ending impunity for violence against women and girls, with a specific focus on gender based violence during war and armed conflicts. Key programme activities include, amongst others; documentation of gender based crimes, advocacy and training for women to access reparations, and assistance through the Court or via local proceedings and/or reconciliation/truth commissions. Activities will take place in Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Uganda.

  € 1.200.000

  
  
• Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights Development and Peace (WLP)

  Project Description

  Amount Awarded

  Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Muslim Majority Societies. The specific objectives of this project are: a) to increase the number of women in the partnership countries in leadership and decision-making roles in politics, b) to expand and intensify advocacy campaigns for legal reform to eliminate violence against women, especially honour killing, polygamy and child marriage, and c) to strengthen the organisational and financial capacity of partner organisations to bolster feminist movements, exchange knowledge and strategy, and bring into the political process marginalised and hitherto silent moderate women. Activities include, amongst others; activities aimed at curriculum development, training, and advocacy and networking for political participation. The project is focused on Afghanistan, Cameroon, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, and Turkey.

  € 1.137.500