Investing in women: beyond the rhetoric
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The Global Fund for Women envisions a just, compassionate and democratic world where women and men participate equally in all aspects of society. We recognize that the challenges women face vary widely across communities, cultures, religions and countries.We believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. The Global Fund makes grants to seed, strengthen and link organizations that build economic independence, challenge discrimination, resolve conflict through peaceful reconciliation and empower community members. Our international network of women and men enables each of us to make a difference by advancing the human rights of women in every part of the world. OUR VISION AND MISSION
TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Chair 2 Letter from the President 3 INVESTING IN WOMEN: BEYOND THE RHETORIC 4 REGIONAL INVESTMENTS 12 Africa
14 Americas
18 Asia & Oceania 22 Europe & Former Soviet States 26 Middle East & North Africa 30
Board of Directors 36 Advisors and Staff 38 How to Join the Team 40 Grantees
General Grants 42 Now or Never Grants 50 Donors
52 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 86 Operational & Financial Highlights 88 Financial Statements 89 PROFILES
BOARD Laurene Powell Jobs 7 Diane Jordan Wexler 7 Adele Simmons 37 Rita Thapa (former Board) 7 GRANTEES Femme de Demain 16 Red Chilena Contra la Violencia Domestica y Sexual 20 Legal Aid Division of Shaanxi Women’s Federation 24 Women’s Fund in Georgia 28 Bahrain Women’s Society 32
Patsy Preston 12 Kitty Knapp Rudman 16 Isabel Allende 20 Inda Stagg 24 Srinija Srinivasan 28 Grace Jackson 32 Tracy Gary & Jean Beard 34 June Hope Kingsley, In Memoriam 37 ADVISORS Evelyn Akem Mafeni, Africa 16 Christina Grela, Americas 20 Carolyn Frohmader, Asia 24 Biljana Kasic, Eastern Europe 28 Louisa Ait Hamou, Middle East & North Africa 32
2 DEAR FRIENDS, In this difficult moment when the lives of millions are threatened by wars, terrorism and natural disasters, it is important to renew our faith in our mission and to acknowledge our accomplishments. Let us celebrate the successful Investing in Women Campaign together, which we have been developing in the past few years, and its innovative Now or Never Fund. I want to share an example of how we have already used this Fund to award grants for matters of great urgency. At the Beijing+10 meeting at the United Nations last March, govern- mental and religious leaders were poised to break the promises made a decade earlier to improve women’s wellbeing and equality.The Global Fund supported grassroots activists who rallied throughout the UN and demonstrated to save those critical gains along with thousands of women’s rights advocates who trav- eled across the world to stop the rollback of their rights. Indeed, the US and the Vatican were turned back in their attempt to obliterate women’s rights, particularly in their reproduc- tive decisions. In April-May, the Global Fund conducted a major outreach trip to the Middle East and North Africa. We met with the women of nearly 200 urban and rural women’s organi- zations, listened to diverse perspectives and religious beliefs, and witnessed their diversity, strength and power. We have decided to expand our grantmaking in the region based on a better understanding of the com- plex intermingling of ethnic, cultural, religious and political issues that mediate gender relations. The Global Fund has stood strong in its position against mili- tarism and the invasion of Iraq, and has increased its focus on what we perceive as real challenges to human- ity and peace—such as the suffering of 600 million Asian children who lack access to either food, safe drink- ing water, health or shelter, the increasingly female face of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem that 80% of Latin America’s working women lack access to pen- sions and health care, and the femi- nization of the growing poverty and inequality in a rich country such as the USA.
This year I was deeply honored to be nominated as one of 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, along with nearly 75 other members of the Global Fund net- work—the founding president, board members, grantees and advisors.This nomination is symbolic. By selecting 1000 women it celebrates and acknowledges the millions of women LETTER FROM THE CHAIR “The Global Fund has stood strong in its position against militarism and the invasion of Iraq, and has increased its focus on what we perceive as real challenges to humanity and peace...” who daily face the challenges to peace and equality, and are largely invisible.These women guarantee the survival of their families—they are part of civic organizations, they pub- lish, they march, they protest, they preach and they invest their energies in bringing more solidarity to the world. And yet, until now, only 11 women have ever been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As I finish my term as Chair, I would like to say how happy I am to have been in such a position during these key years of the Global Fund’s transition from a small organization to our current position as the leading women’s fund in the world with an annual budget of $12 million. I am deeply grateful for your ongoing support and action in making our collective journey towards peace and the wellbeing of women and girls so close to your heart. Obrigada, JACQUELINE PITANGUY Chair, Board of Directors
3 DEAR FRIENDS, As I reflect on the Global Fund’s 18th year, I am astounded by the accomplishments of women’s rights advocates, awed by the complexity of world events against whose back- drop they wage their struggles, and humbled by their relentless quest for equality, peace and justice. This year we are especially proud to celebrate the success of the $20 million Investing in Women Cam- paign.This unprecedented effort to increase our support of women’s rights groups worldwide was fueled by women in the poorest parts of the world demanding that “their fund” —“the Global Fund”— address the dangerous threats to women’s safety, security and freedom. We responded by shaping our campaign into two LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT “Although the world community now routinely invokes “women’s rights” as a global good, the promises made in UN declarations, whether in Cairo in 1994 or Beijing in 1995 or New York in 2005, remain mostly words on paper.” funds: a fund for longterm sustain- ability, the Legacy Fund, and a fund for immediate action, the Now or Never Fund. We still grapple with how to frame the language—the rhetoric— that can accurately convey the wag- ing of a war against women.When we say Now or Never, are we guilty of conjuring an artificial urgency? The truth is that women have been facing crises of epidemic proportions for decades. Seventy-five percent of the fatalities of war are women and children. As severe poverty increases, over $7 trillion worth of women’s work goes unpaid. And women are the fastest growing group being infected by HIV/AIDS. Although the world community now routinely invokes “women’s rights” as a global good, the promises made in UN declarations, whether in Cairo in 1994 or Beijing in 1995 or New York in 2005, remain mostly words on paper. Now or Never seemed to be an appropriate term in the face of these stark facts. Yet, far from acquiescing to their plight as victims, women are demand- ing that all of us—nonprofits, philanthropies, corporations and governments alike—go beyond the rhetoric.They make a compelling case for investing in their networks that change laws and hold governments accountable, and in their initiatives to dismantle a system of discrimination that denies millions of girls an educa- tion.They demonstrate that women’s funds can flourish in places like Nepal, Ukraine and South Africa where they invest their own resources directly into local endeavors.Their leadership shows how relatively small amounts of money used for pre-natal care and health services can signifi- cantly decrease both maternal and child mortality. This year our annual report seeks to share these investment returns with all of you who made Investing in Women much more than just another catchy campaign title.We sought to go beyond the rhetoric by making more resources available immediately to women on the front- lines of the struggle against poverty, violence and fundamentalism.We increased our grantmaking by 35% in one year. And, we were buoyed and sustained by the 1,150 women and men who stepped up—telling us we were not alone in wanting to translate ideals into action and caring words into commitments. Now that we have begun making Now or Never grants, we do not fool ourselves with the notion that all will be well for women in five years.There will still be a critical need for investing resources in global efforts to both advance and preserve women’s equality. But, together, we can turn the rhetoric of investing in women into a global hope for our times. In the now famous words of Indian author Arundhati Roy, “another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” With hope and appreciation, KAVITA N. RAMDAS President and C.E.O.
4 Count up the results of 50 years billion-dollar development progra global impact is quite underwhel scale which shames us all.
INVESTING IN WOMEN: THE RHETORIC “Investing in Women.” Plug this phrase into the popular Internet search engine Google, and you will find links to nearly 11,000 web pages from every corner of the world. Feminist leaders are urging their governments and constituents to “invest in women.” The US administration and every US aid agency are talking about “investing in women.” Even cor- porate funders have decided that “Investing in Women Makes Good Business Sense.” In one way, hearing talk of “Investing in Women” from such diverse sources is a measure of the 5 of human rights mechanisms, 30 years of multi- mmes and endless high-level rhetoric, and the ming. This is a failure of implementation on a Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights BEYOND THE RHETORIC success of the international women’s movement. In 1995, 189 countries signed the Beijing Platform for Action and publicly declared that women’s human rights are the key to sustainable, healthy societies.With growing momentum since Beijing, women’s rights have become a desirable global good. THE GLOBAL THREAT But this recognition comes at a time of grave global threat. All over the world, women’s lives are in crisis as funding levels for critical programs are slashed and fundamentalism threatens to overwhelm the gains of the past 50 years. Global military spend- ing will surpass one trillion dollars this year, an astounding 20% rise in real terms since 2003. Rich nations spend only 50-60 billion dollars annually on development aid. The social and economic commitments made by governments in Beijing in 1995 are not being upheld. As we write this report, Iraqi women are protesting Article 14, a constitutional amendment that will push back women’s human rights in Iraq to pre-1959 status. For the sixth year in a row, the US is cutting funding to the INVESTING IN EDUCATION 8 & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INVESTING IN HEALTH 9 INVESTING IN PEACE 10 INVESTING IN LEADERSHIP 11
6 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), thereby contributing to a crisis in which hundreds of thousands of women’s lives are at risk by being denied reproductive health services. Despite the US government’s pledge in November 2001 that the rights of women in Afghanistan would not be nego- tiable, four years later, only 2-3% of Afghan women have been able to return to work. More than one million of Afghanistan’s primary school age girls are not enrolled in school and Afghanistan contin- ues to have the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. FROM CRISIS TO CAMPAIGN To move beyond the rhetoric, we must invest in women’s own efforts to change the worldwide system of discrimination.What action could we take in the face of this war on women? Through the leadership of our Board, we decided to raise an extra $20 mil- lion over and above our annual fund. The Campaign would be comprised of two funds, each totaling $10 million. The $10 million Legacy Fund is an insur- ance policy for the future of women’s rights activism. The $10 million Now or Never Fund is already addressing women’s urgent needs. Even before the Campaign has officially ended, the Now or Never Fund is infus- ing the international women’s movement this year with $2 million in emergency support. Here’s how: Thousands of women’s rights activists, policymakers and gov- ernment officials from around the world gathered in New York this past March to evaluate the imple- mentation of the Beijing Platform for Action. More than 50 Global Fund grantee organiza- tions were among those demand- ing that the UN and world governments live up to their pledges to support women’s empowerment, protect women’s health, and educate women and girls.Working around the clock, an international coalition derailed the US government’s attempt to introduce an amendment specifi- cally excluding women’s rights to reproductive health and freedom. In one of the most exciting developments, youth activists from India, South Africa, and Latin America, funded by Now or Never, stepped up to carry the torch of leadership for a new generation. Representing 17 Asia- Pacific countries, the Network of Asia Pacific Youth (NAPY) con- vened 100 feminist activists who evaluated the 12 points of the Platform for Action and developed strategies for bringing the con- cerns of youth to the international forum.
PREVENTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING Brazil is currently the largest supplier of women and girls traf- ficked into the sex trade in Latin America. The United Nations estimates that 75,000 Brazilian women have been forced into sex work in the European Union alone. Many women and girls are also trafficked into forced domes- tic and agricultural work within Brazil. Afro-Brazilian women, who are subject to many forms of discrimination, including the denial of education and health services, are particularly vulnera- ble to trafficking and economic exploitation. The Now or Never Fund is supporting CRIOLA, an organi- zation led by Afro-Brazilian women, to combat trafficking, and especially sexual exploitation. CRIOLA addresses the root causes of trafficking by empower- ing and educating Afro-Brazilian women and girls in the poorest areas of Rio de Janeiro. CRIOLA “This is not a short-term relation
7 is also building a regional network against trafficking with other human rights organizations. Since its establishment in 1992, over 3,000 women and girls have ben- efited from CRIOLA’s skills training, and human rights and advocacy workshops.
In countries such as Mongolia, India, Egypt, Uruguay and Sierra Leone, Now or Never grantees are documenting the testimony of women who have been assaulted in conflict zones, challenging fun- damentalism, training women in legal and human rights advocacy, building relationships between rural and urban women, speaking in national and world parliaments, and contributing to international strategies to enforce women’s human rights.
LAURENE POWELL JOBS Co-Chair, Investing in Women Campaign What I would like people to take away from the experience of the Investing in Women Campaign is that they are active members of a community — that when they hear news about women or a woman leader, they feel connected to the struggles and to the triumphs, and I hope they continue to see the Global Fund as their means of connecting. This is not a short-term relationship. We have just begun our journey together. DIANE WEXLER Co-Chair, Investing in Women Campaign The Global Fund’s Investing in Women campaign brought together donors, staff, board and grantees to address the crises in women’s lives. What we accomplished collectively and what women’s rights groups are doing every day is incredibly powerful. And we must continue this work because traditional philanthropy either ignores women’s welfare and human rights, pays lip service to it, or just applies Band-Aids. All I know is, other than raising my family, the most life- affirming thing I can do is to support this campaign and this organization. RITA THAPA Chair, “Ripples of Change,” the grassroots component of the Investing in Women Campaign, which reached out to 2,000 grantees, activists and advisors. Most of us in our parts of the world would not be able to do our work without financial and moral sup- port from the Global Fund and other feminist funds. The Investing in Women Campaign is a chance to give back and create true partnerships in an unequal world. ship. We have just begun our journey together.”
8 Investing in Education and Economic
Development The Global Fund invested $1.34 million in 140 organizations in 66 countries promoting income-earning and educational programs for women.
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