About Prospera – International Network of Women\u2019s Funds Prospera \u2013 INWF brings together 44 autonomous and independent women\u2019s funds. Women\u2019s funds are led by and for women, girls, trans, intersex, and gender non-binary people in all their diversity. As women\u2019s funds, our core values are feminist and rooted in justice, equality, respect, and accountability; these values are expressed through an intersectional approach towards issues and constituencies, mutual empowerment, solidarity, collaboration, and trust. We provide grants to organizations and activist initiatives led by women, girls, trans, intersex and gender non-binary people in 178 countries working at local, national, regional, and global levels. We support efforts that address key gender equality issues identified as critical areas of concern by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, including: environment, power, bodily autonomy, economic resilience, violence, education, health, media, technology, and armed conflict, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the Beijing Conference being a landmark event in recognizing key barriers to achieving gender equality and critical actions to enable these, related financial commitments have been vastly inadequate. Ninety-nine per cent of gender-related international aid fails to reach women\u2019s and feminist organisations directly (AWID, 2019). Twenty six years later, it is time to deliver on the promises of the Beijing Platform for Action and to create systemic change. These efforts are especially critical given that the COVID-19 pandemic is compounding and amplifying deep-seated gender inequities and injustices. Prospera INWF calls on Generation Equality Forum participants to commit at least 50% of all funding pledges to fund directly autonomous, women-, girls-, and trans-led feminist organizations and movements and when not possible, indirectly through intermediaries that center the leadership of these movements, i.e. women\u2019s funds. The Generation Equality Forum is a critical moment for donors resourcing gender equality efforts to radically shift funding to women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements, including: new and additional long-term, core, and flexible funding; rapid response granting mechanisms, democratic governance and participatory grantmaking; and new forms of partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prospera INWF is dedicated to strengthening our crucial role in the feminist funding ecosystem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As feminist funders committed to distributing more and better resources to women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements, we pledge to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Continue to provide rapid-response, long-term, core, and flexible funding directly to women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements \u2022 Fund the full range of feminist organizing and prioritize support for activists, including young women and girl activists, who are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Racialized, Indigenous, and from other marginalized ethnic and religious groups; \u2022 Environmental and land rights defenders; \u2022 Disability rights defenders; \u2022 Lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, gender non-conforming, non- binary, and other gender diverse defenders; \u2022 Sex worker and informal, domestic, and low-wage worker rights defenders; and \u2022 Migrant, displaced, refugee, or stateless defenders and those affected by conflict and occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Increase support to women\u2019s funds as key to reaching local, national, and regional women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements. \u2022 Support other funders to channel resources to women\u2019s and feminist organizations, to whom they may not have access without partnering with women\u2019s funds. \u2022 Democratize philanthropy and other funding flows to increase accountability to women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements. \u2022 Contribute to a body of knowledge on the effectiveness of funding women\u2019s and feminist organizations and movements to achieve gender equality by: tracking and analyzing our results (using feminist monitoring and evaluation principles); and sharing lessons learned and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) Astraea – Lesbian Foundation for Justice Apthapi-Jopueti – Fondo de Mujeres Bolivia Bulgarian Fund for Women Calala Fondo de Mujeres – Spain ELAS+ Fundo de Investimento Social – Brazil Equality Fund – Canada Ecumenical Women’s Initiative – Croatia FemFund – Poland Fiji Women’s Fund filia die frauenstiftung – Germany FIMI – International Indigenous Women\u2019s Forum Fondo Alquimia – Chile Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM) Fondo de Mujeres del Sur- Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay Fondo Lunaria Mujer – Colombia Fondo Semillas – Mexico Fonds Pour Les Femmes Congolaises (FFC) FRIDA – The young feminist fund Global Fund for Women – USA Her Fund – Hong Kong International Charitable Foundation \u201cUkrainian Women\u2019s Fund\u201d Korea Foundation for Women – South Korea Mama Cash – Netherlands Mediterranean Women\u2019s Fund – France Mones – Mongolian Women’s Fund Reconstruction Women\u2019s Fund – Serbia South Asia Women Foundation India Taso Foundation – Georgia TEWA – Nepal Urgent Action Fund – Africa Urgent Action Fund – Asia & Pacific Urgent Action Fund – Latin America and the Caribbean Urgent Action Fund for Women\u2019s Human Rights Women First International Fund – USA Women\u2019s Fund Armenia Women\u2019s Fund Asia Women’s Fund in Georgia Women Fund Tanzania Women Win Xoese, the Francophone Women\u2019s Fund<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Call to Action for the Generation Equality Forum About Prospera – International Network of Women\u2019s Funds Prospera \u2013 INWF brings together 44 autonomous and independent women\u2019s funds. 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