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LOOkIng BACk, MOvIng FOrWArd: rEFLECTIOnS On THE 54TH SESSIOn OF THE COMMISSIOn On THE STATUS OF WOMEn (CSW) And BEIJIng+15
As millions rose up demanding justice last year, women were on the frontlines and behind the headlines pushing to advance human rights. Global Fund for Women celebrates International Women’s Day with ten victories won by our grantee partners in 2011. From securing bodily rights to delivering justice to rape survivors, women are ushering in peace and justice for all.
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In March, the three of us traveled to New York for the 15th anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women and the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The forum offered an opportunity to hear how the historic Beijing summit has resulted in actual, lived change for women worldwide. Despite the economic recession and major cutbacks in donor funding, we were pleasantly surprised at the unprecedented number of women at the CSW this year—nearly 8,000 women from over 100 countries. continued on page
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ARGENTINA LEGALIZES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, FIRST FOR LATIN AMERICA PHOTO © JAVIER FUENTES Y NICOLÁS FERNÁNDEZ
Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Article 2 of the Argentinean Civil Code now describes matrimony as a union between a “couple” versus between “man and woman.” Under the new legislation, same-sex couples have the same social rights as heterosexual couples, including parental rights to adopt, the right to their partner’s inheritance and pensions, among others. To date, some 1,000 lesbian and gay couples have been married.
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On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Global Fund for Women (GFW) looks back over the past year and celebrates some of the extraordinary victories won by women’s movements around the world. From progressive new national and international legislation to mass mobilizations for peace, we celebrate the hard work of our grantee partners. These 10 victories remind us that despite enormous odds, women are paving the way to a more just and equal world.
DOMESTIC WORKERS TO WIN WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Despite restrictive working conditions and limited infrastructure, domestic workers worldwide organized, advocated for, and won a victory that could ultimately guarantee basic labor protections to millions of women employed in other people’s homes.
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The revolutions not only opened opportunities for women to engage politically, they sparked the beginning of a transformation in gender relations. Men and women, across class and religions, worked and slept on the sidewalks side by side. And as men and women demanded respect and freedom from their government, they began treating each other with more dignity and viewing the well being of their countries and its peoples as everyone’s responsibility. These revolutions have now similarly awakened people in Bahrain, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. The world is witnessing ordinary people’s desire for democracy and dignity, and realizing that their direct action can actually lead to real political and social change.
GFW is proud to have supported domestic worker groups who were instrumental to pushing for domestic worker’s rights at the International Labor Organization (ILO) 2010 Conference, including our grantee partner Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM Asia). Next up, GFW grantee partners and others will be pushing for the Convention for Decent Work to be adopted at the June 2011 ILO Conference. If they are successful, it will be the result of incredible organizing by this vibrant movement, considered by many the most exciting in the world.
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2. WOMEN AND GIRLS GET A STRONG VOICE AT THE UN Last year, the UN finally responded to a longstanding demand from the women’s movement: it created the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women. The superagency consolidates four existing UN offices for gender equality and women’s rights into a single entity, with
Undersecretary General Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean president, at the helm. The creation of UN Women was indeed the result of years of advocacy for reform within the UN by the Gender Equality Architecture Reform campaign (GEAR), which mobilized more than 300 groups to hold the General Assembly accountable to its promises for women’s equality and empowerment. According to Charlotte Bunch, GFW Board Member and leader of GEAR, “Over the past 20 years, the Global Fund for Women has been a major funder for women’s groups to monitor the UN and attend events like UN world conferences and the Commission on the Status of Women, which has been crucial to creating the ground work for UN Women.” San Francisco, CA 94108, USA 222 Sutter Street, Suite 500 Phone 415.248.4800 Fax 415.248.4801 www.globalfundforwomen.org
In Bangladesh, where only 18 percent of births are attended by a skilled medical professional, grantee partner is Narigrantha Prabartana training traditional birth attendants and has formed a network of midwives who collectively purchase and distribute portable technology and medical equipment. In rural Nigeria, Gender Development Organization (GDO) helps women suffering from fistulae developed during complications in childbirth by transporting them to hospitals, paying for their treatment and surgery, and helping them reintegrate into their families after they have healed.
10. REVOLUTION BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE: TUNISIA, EGYPT AND BEYOND The year leading up to the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day closed with revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt where women played a central role. In Tunisia, groups supported by GFW, including the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, were at the forefront of the uprisings. After the ouster of Ben Ali, women’s groups demanded that a women’s rights agenda and human rights law serve as the foundation for the new democracy. In Egypt, our grantees were in Tahrir Square for weeks running makeshift clinics, transporting medical supplies, giving legal aid and documenting abuses.
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9. MATERNAL DEATHS DROP BY 34 PERCENT In 2010, major studies by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank revealed that the number of women dying annually during pregnancy or childbirth has dropped by more than one-third over the last 30 years. The Global Fund for Women is proud to have played a role in the global movement to save mothers’ lives. Since 1987, GFW has provided over $17.6 million in grants to 950 womenled organizations in 121 countries to improve women’s access to maternal and reproductive health care.
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We have been proud to support the tireless efforts of lesbian rights groups in Argentina to achieve equality over the past two decades. Several GFW grantee partners, including Lesbianas a la Vista, Desalambrando, and Colectiva Feminista la Revuelta, used multiple strategies to win this legal victory, including increasing the public’s acceptance of LGBTQI equality. Inspired by Argentina, in Peru same-sex marriage is now a topic in the 2011 presidential debates.
3. FIRST SUCCESSFUL USE OF CEDAW IN RAPE CASE In the Philippines, women won a historic victory when they successfully used the Optional Protocol of CEDAW
(Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) in the first rape case ever to be decided under CEDAW. A UN committee ruled that the Philippines government violated the rights of Karen Vertido, a female rape survivor, when a local court dismissed her rape allegations due to “gender-based myths and stereotypes.” The Women’s Legal Bureau of the Philippines, a longtime GFW grantee partner, appealed to CEDAW, and in collaboration with several grantee partners across the Asia Pacific, secured this historic verdict for the survivor.
4. HUMAN RIGHTS COURT RULES AGAINST IRELAND’S BAN ON ABORTION In another groundbreaking decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled that abortion, in certain cases, should be legalized in Ireland and that its ban violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases. This legal victory was due to the persistence of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), a GFW grantee, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of three women who argued that Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws threatened their health and wellbeing because it forced them to travel abroad for abortion. IFPA’s successful strategy argued that reproductive rights are human rights. GFW grants helped IFPA research and bring the case before the ECHR, as well as leverage other funding for costly litigation. This case also set precedence for women in other countries to challenge discriminatory laws through the ECHR, which makes legally binding decisions on human rights issues in the 47-member Council of Europe.
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6. NATIONALITY LAWS SWEEP MIDDLE EAST Women’s quest for equality took a giant leap forward with the passage of nationality laws in Libya, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen and first steps in Lebanon. Nationality laws grant women equal treatment under the law and ensure that even if they marry a man of a different nationality, their children will not be denied citizenship in their own country. This legal guarantee is also critical to ensuring women and children have access to basic resources, like education, health care and employment. Since 2001, GFW grantees have engaged in research, advocacy, media reform, and protests to support women’s full citizenship across nine countries – Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. These victories were the outcome of the “Arab Women’s Right to Nationality” regional campaign led by our grantee partners with regional coordination by the Collective for Research and Training on Development in Action (CRTD-A) in Lebanon. With democratic uprisings sweeping the Middle East, the struggle towards equal citizenship continues and grows.
7. NIGERIAN WOMEN DEFEAT NUDITY BILL Amid a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and cultural conservatism, Nigerian women’s groups succeeded last year in defeating the so-called Nudity Bill, introduced in 2008, which would have imposed state control over girl’s and women’s bodies. Had the bill passed, women over age 14 would be punished for exposing too much of their necklines or any parts of their belly, waist, or thighs. Fines for violations ranged from $65 to $325 or up to six-months in prison. The bill also would have lowered the age of marriage consent from 18 to 14 years. A network of women’s organizations, including grantee partners Alliances for Africa, CIRDDOC, and the Nigerian Feminist Forum, spearheaded the campaign that eventually quashed the Bill in 2010. Over 500 women activists attended the packed public hearing that eventually quashed the bill; their energy has motivated similar efforts to defeat repressive bills in other African countries.
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MASS MARCH FOR WOMEN AND PEACE IN CONGO For three days in October, 220 women from 41 countries gathered in Bukavu, in eastern Congo to peacefully march in solidarity with 20,000 Congolese women and men against war and gender violence. Women proudly proclaimed, “we are all survivors, we’re still here, and we’re marching together for the women of the Congo,” and in doing so brought global attention to the mass rapes committed by multiple armies and militias.
The Philippine Government must now implement the recommendations made by CEDAW, including ensuring immediate measures in rape cases and impartial and fair legal procedures. CEDAW also urged the government to review its definition of rape and to train its judges, lawyers, law enforcement officers and medical personnel in a gender-sensitive manner to understand crimes of rape and other sexual offenses.
The gathering was organized by GFW grantee partner World March of Women in cooperation with local Congolese groups working to end violence against women. We supported several grantees’ participation in the march, which called for an end to government impunity from sexual violence. Their work is paying off: in February, a Congolese army colonel was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering his troops to rape dozens of defenseless civilians in the village of Fizi on New Years Day. PHOTO © PIERRE-YVES GINET
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Growing Strong FALL 2012
“BELIEVE THAT CHANGE IS POSSIBLE. SEE THE BARREN PATCH OF GROUND AND BE AWARE THAT A GARDEN CAN GROW THERE.” –ANNE FIRTH MURRAY, GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN FOUNDING PRESIDENT
SAY YES. STEP UP. NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ALLOWED WOMEN AND GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD TO SET THE AGENDA, DEMAND EQUAL PARTICIPATION, AND TAKE FLIGHT.
THANK YOU. Global Fund for Women has created a strong base of women’s organizations around the world, with roots reaching deep into communities, anchoring the tree of the women’s movement. This strong foundation allows our grantees to grow, reach, and create exponential impact. With your critical support, women and girls, like the branches on this great tree, continue to grow in their work. Even in the face of adversity, women lead with strength and perseverance.
As a Global Fund donor, you already know that investing in women’s leadership is an effective way to achieve lasting social change. Still, most women’s rights organizations lack the money to maximize their efforts and effectiveness. This past year, we had to decline more than $9.4 million in requests from groups that met our grantmaking criteria. Without this funding, women leaders are missing opportunities to drive change in the lives of women and girls.
PLEASE SAY “YES” TO ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS WE WILL RECEIVE.
We are so excited to share this report of our work from the past year. With the help of donors like you, Global Fund has made concrete strides in securing equal rights for women and girls. Thank you. Join us again this year: invest in women and give them the resources to lead.
“WE’VE ACHIEVED SO MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE THERE” – Celine Nkiru Okoro, Nigerian grantee since 2008
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
WOMEN LEADING THE FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS “IT’S TIME TO SHIFT THE EARTH ON ITS AXIS AND PUT WOMEN, THEIR RIGHTS
DOLLAR AMOUNT OF GRANTMAKING BY TYPE: 11% INNOVATION: to new groups,
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initiatives, or strategies
AND CHOICES, FRONT AND CENTER”– Musimbi Kanyoro, Global Fund CEO
Global Fund is changing women’s lives at the local, national, and international level. In order to deliver deep and lasting impact for women and girls, we focus on:
61% STRENGTHENING: for organizational growth and development
IN TOTAL GRANTMAKING THIS YEAR
28% IMPACT: larger, multi-year support to groups with proven impact
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SMART GRANTMAKING: We rely on a rigorous due diligence, monitoring, and evaluation process honed over almost 25 years. We invest in groups that are highly networked in their communities and with broad, social movements. We award flexible, unrestricted support that allows grantees to create tailored solutions based on their unique knowledge of their community’s need.
EXTENSIVE NETWORK: Our grantmaking is informed by our international network of over 2,000+ advisors around the world, a board that includes women from 10 different countries, and a 50-person staff who speak more than 24 languages. We benefit from knowledge-sharing across 4,500+ grantees and support from over 20,000 individuals and institutions.
Challenges to women’s bodily rights this year threatened to undo the progress women fought so hard to achieve, but it also added fire to a global conversation that was already heating up: women’s right to quality health care.
FUNDRAISING FOR MOVEMENTS: Our end-goal is to increase financial resources available to the global women’s rights movement, which means using our position as a respected leader to raise as much money for women as we can. In addition to our lifetime grantmaking, we have leveraged an additional $5.7 million for grantees by acting as a fiscal sponsor and connecting grantees to donors.
When women don’t have the power to negotiate safe sex and plan their families, they must have access to safe abortion options. Uruguay is currently on the cusp of legalizing abortion as a result of decades of tireless advocacy by two longtime grantee partners: Mujer Ahora and Mujer y Salud Uruguay. The Mexican Pro-Choice Alliance, which includes several grantee partners, conducted over 2,800 trainings in one year that resulted in an estimated 8,268 women receiving comprehensive abortion care by trained professionals. Our grantees in Poland were instrumental in mobilizing opposition to a bill that would have banned abortion. Meanwhile, groups in Russia are running powerful media campaigns and working with politicians to defend women’s rights to reproductive choice.
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WE INVESTED $1.5 MILLION GLOBALLY IN 94 GROUPS ADVANCING WOMEN’S HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. We also participated in important global discussions like the London Summit on Family Planning, voicing the truth: family planning saves lives and contraception should be accessible for all women. One series of studies2 shows that family planning can significantly reduce carbon emissions. So, when the Rio+20 environmental summit refused to include discussions about reproductive health, our CEO was a strong voice at the summit, championing the needs of women.
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Regional Public Organization “Mother and Child” runs a hospital that provides free, life-saving reproductive health services to women in Dagestan, an extremely conservative mountainous region in Russia where women face extreme discrimination in daily life, including high risk of violence and dismal health services. The group sends “mountain brigades” of doctors, psychologists, and lawyers to deliver vital services to these women.
117 GRANTS TO SUPPORT WOMEN LIVING WITH AND AT-RISK FOR HIV/AIDS
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Series of papers published by the National Center for Atmospheric Research on population and health. Summary of findings covered by Nina Lakhani, “Better Contraception Could Save 100,000 Lives,” The Independent, July 10, 2012.
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HOW WE’RE BUILDING A MOVEMENT
INVESTING IN WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
A hallmark of our grantmaking is to chart new territory and fund where others fear to tread. We’re able to do this because of MENA Grants 1989 - 2011 our impressive network of MENA advisors who help us assess trends and give on-the-ground analysis. We have prioritized $1,282,0 grants to LBTQI women, women with disabilities, girls and adolescents, rural women and others who are too often left 00 $1,400,000 $900,00 out of mainstream funding channels. Over 90% of Global Fund grants have supported initiatives that specifically include $1,200,000 0 marginalized populations. $1,000,000 $800,000 $272,50 2011, we funded the first ever conference for sex worker and RURAL WOMEN $600,000“The Global Fund for Women closes the knowledge gap on the long history of MENA women’s rights $4,000 0 trans-peoples’ rights organizedby Pembe Hayat (Pink Life). Sex $400,000activism and ensures MENA women can influence key decisions that affect them.” In 2008, the Global Fund convened workers received safety training and sexual health information and $200,000 two meetings in Mauritania for existing $- —GLOBAL FUND BOARD CHAIR LEILA HESSINI networked with human rights defenders. and prospective grantees, which were instrumental in seeding small women’s Since 1989 the Global Fund for Women has provided nearly Supporting young feminist leadership is also another major focus MENA GRANTS 1989 - 2011 groups in rural areas. In addition to bridging $10 million in vital core support to 384 women-led groups in 14 of our grantmaking. In May 2010, we gave a seed grant to the $1.5 mil rural/urban divides, these meetings brought together women $1.282mil countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Young Arab Feminist Network in Cairo, Egypt to support from the four major ethnic/linguistic groups. We awarded more Individually and collectively, these groups are working to achieve FY 1988-1989 FY 2001-2002 FY 2005-2006 $1.125mil feminist youth building alliances and breaking the isolation FY 2010 - 2011 $900k grants to Mauritania between 2008-2011 than the prior 14 years gender equity, genuine human security and greater opportunities $750k combined. This helped grantees secure critical victories, including often felt by young people concerned about the political future for girls and women. By cultivating women’s leadership and of their countries. changes to the Mauritanian personal status code. Although over $375k building a formidable movement, they are changing the region. $272k $4k 63% of adult women are illiterate and nearly half of the country $0 DURING OCCUPATION AND WAR lives in poverty, women’s groups have launched small rural BIRTH OF THE MENA INITIATIVE 02 11 89 06 In areas facing violent conflict or 20 20 cooperative businesses, increased women’s voting by 30%, and 19 20 In 2003, just months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Global military occupation, the Global Fund addressed controversial human rights issues, including slavery, Fund for Women Board made a bold decision to launch the supports refugee women’s groups and sexual violence and discrimination against widows. Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa. Anticipating community-led programs that save expanded our network by adding 12 new regional advisors the additional hardship facing women under war, we decided BUILDING MOVEMENTS ACROSS lives and meet the urgent needs arising and diversified our grantees to include groups from rural areas, to direct systematic support to women’s groups dealing with BOUNDARIES from war. These women endure incredibly difficult circumstances, marginalized communities, and to countries and regions with increased destabilization. Despite their best efforts to rebuild The Global Fund is building stronger including death or disability in the family, increased domestic nascent women’s rights organizing. their communities, women’s groups had little to no financial movements by creating connections violence, and trafficking resulting from deepening poverty. total, the Globalfor Fund has awarded in $9.7 Million through 762 grants to 384 women-led support. The vast In majority of funds “reconstruction” warbetween diverse networks and Global Fund grantee Zakher runs a cooperative commercial Global Fund grants provide direct, support to grassroots working advance women’s rights and well-being in 14 countries in thecore MENA torn countries likeorganizations Iraq or Palestine wenttoeither to governments supporting feminist research and TURKEY kitchen in Gaza where over 25 women heads of households come region. We also leveraged an additional $412,679 in fiscal sponsorship support longtime organizations and national andtoregional networks. This flexible or large, bureaucratic NGOs; rarely reaching smaller, local 37 grantees analysis. At the 2008 Resource Mobilization Conference in grantee partners. together to prepare and sell foods locally, earning income to support helps women’s groups meet immediate needs and organizations capable of responding to immediate community Morocco and the 2009 Arab Feminisms Conference in Lebanon, sustain their families. In Israel, New Profile works to challenge respond quickly to changing environments, such as mobilizing for needs. Inspired by this vision, a handful of donors launched the the Global Fund intentionally supported the participation of CYPRUS Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the militarization of their democratic reforms recently world. MENA Field of Interest Fund and raised $460,000 to support TUNISIA witnessed throughout the Arab 6 grantees women’s groups facing multiple forms of oppression; this created 6 grantees society, especially the militaristic socialization and education of Our strategic support has brought leading feminists together women’s rights organizations in the region. LEBANON a safe networking space to help shatter old stereotypes. and helped to open spaces for dialogue in a region that has been26 grantees their children. The Baghdad Women’s Association operates a ISRAEL In just seven years of our initiative, our MOROCCO grantmaking to the historically closed to taboo or sensitive issues, such as sexuality “listening center” to provide trauma counseling to women and As a regional priority, the Global Fund strengthens ties between 62 rights. grantees 31 grantees MENA region grew by 400%, accounting for 80% of the Global families and programs to prevent, monitor and report incidences LBTQI and women’s rights movements. For example, in 1995 Fund’s total giving to the region historically. We also significantly in Turkey, we awarded the first grant to a lesbian group; by of gender-based violence.
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SUCCESS STORIES 1. “SPRING OF EQUALITY”, MOROCCO On March 8th 2000, some 200 women’s groups led the “Spring of Equality,” a mass campaign where hundreds of thousands of women marched on Rabat, Morocco’s capital. They demanded reform of the Family Code, the Moudawana, which made women subjects of their fathers or husbands and denied them equal inheritance rights. It also sanctioned polygamy and granted divorce only to men. King Mohammed VI ultimately yielded to the feminists’ demands. By 2003, several Global Fund grantees participated in the Royal Advisory Board to transform the Moudawana into legislation guaranteeing women equality. Today, women have 40 seats in Morocco’s Parliament and 16 Family Court judgeships.
IRAQ 36 grantees
JORDAN 15 grantees
PALESTINE 57 grantees
2. “ARAB REVOLUTIONS” BAHRAIN 3 grantees
MAURITANIA 35 grantees
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In early 2011, grantee partners in Tunisia and Egypt were at the forefront of democratic uprisings in their countries. After the ouster of President Ben Ali, Tunisian women’s groups secured women’s equality in the new Tunis Declaration and legal reforms to prohibit gender discrimination. In Egypt, after millions occupied Tahrir Square and other public sites to overthrow President Mubarak, women’s groups traveled the country to gather input from women to ensure that the new constitution enshrines gender equality. The impossible was made possible by years of organizing and trust building across civil society by our grantee partners like Nadim Center, Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, New Woman Foundation, and Nazra for Feminist Studies, among others.
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OUR IMPACT
WHO WE ARE We advance the rights of women and girls by investing in women-led organizations worldwide because our 25 years of experience tells us that they are the most effective forces for social change.
HOW WE WORK We raise money from individuals, foundations, and governments, and efficiently deliver and monitor those resources. We give general support grants to women-led organizations in over 150 countries. These grants let organizations allocate money where it is needed most, allowing them to be more agile and seize opportunities that support lasting social change.
We convene women’s organizations so they share skills and build relationships that bring more resources to women’s rights. We advocate for issues impacting women and girls, and lift the voices and solutions of our partners.
Women produce 80 percent of food in Africa; yet make up 60 percent of the hungry. To flip the scale, our partners teach women sustainable farming, business management, and how to keep their land. Women not only report an increase in household income because of their involvement with our partners, but government officials are calling on them to help shape national food policies.
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Our international network of advisors and partners are our eyes and ears on the ground. Global Fund board members and staff have years of respected experience in the women’s movement.
Women between the ages of 15 and 45 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Our partners pressure governments to pass and implement laws that prevent and stop violence against women. Our partners made domestic violence a punishable crime in nine countries and counting, including Bulgaria, Indonesia, and Nicaragua.
Pregnancy is the number one killer of teenage girls. Our partners empower girls by teaching reproductive and sexual health. They also provide access to quality health services. 88 percent of the girls surveyed felt that their hopes and goals for the future had positively expanded as a result of their involvement with our partners.
Since 1989, the Global Fund has invested $10 million in the Middle East. This vital core support to women’s groups prepared them to lead during the revolutions because they had developed strong networks and could mobilize quickly.
CLIENT: GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN IMPACT REPORT AND BROCHURE DESIGNS
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What is 10x10? THE CHALLENGE In the US, 3 million people with serious mental health challenges die 25 years younger of treatable health conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, HIV and AIDS).
The Solution TAKE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO WELLNESS. SUPPORT THE WHOLE PERSON. PROVIDE OPTIONS AND CHOICES FOR RECOVERY.
THE FINDINGS The Medical Directors Council of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) reported in 2006 that persons with serious mental health challenges increased death and disease rates “are largely due to treatable medical conditions that are caused by modifiable risk factors”:
Two months later, the Board of Supervisors declared the month of December 2011 as the beginning of Alameda County’s:
• No medical coverage
• Alcohol consumption
EMOTIONS—Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships
• Isolation
SOUL—Expanding our sense of purpose and meaning in life
• Poor nutrition/obesity • Distrust of the medical system • Lack of exercise • Unsafe sex • IV drug use • Lack of coordination between primary care and mental health services • Living in group homes or homeless shelters • Side effects of psychiatric medications (weight gain, diabetes, high cholesterol, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome) • Polypharmacy-mixing prescription meds may cause harmful consequences
THE PLEDGE Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services (ACBHCS) took SAMHSA’s wellness pledge to envision a future in which people with mental and substance use disorders pursue optimal health, happiness, recovery, and a full and satisfying life in the community via access to a range of effective services, supports, and resources. THE CAMPAIGN On 10/10 of 2011, ACBHCS, along with communitybased organizations officially launched the Alameda County 10x10 Wellness Campaign at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.
The Risk Factors • Smoking • Poverty
Support the Whole Person
PURPOSE—Personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work CONNECTION—Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system HAVING ENOUGH—Satisfaction with current and future financial situations OUR WORLD—Good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being MIND—Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills
10x10 Wellness Campaign THE PLAN In 2011, ACBHCS set out to answer 3 essential questions: 1) In what ways are Alameda County mental health service providers addressing mental wellness from a holistic perspective, based on the 8 Dimensions of Wellness as defined by SAMSA (emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social/cultural and spiritual)? 2) How can the connection between primary care and mental health care be strengthened? 3) Which approaches to wellness are most effective in helping to extend life expectancy in individuals suffering from serious mental illness?
BODY—Recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods and sleep
EMOTIONS: Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships OUR WORLD: Good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being HAVING ENOUGH: Satisfaction with current and future financial situations MIND: Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills PURPOSE: Personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work BODY: Recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods and sleep CONNECTION: Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system SPIRIT: Expanding our sense of purpose and meaning in life
CLIENT: 10X10 WELLNESS BROCHURE, T-SHIRT AND POSTER DESIGNS
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