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Grants Awarded | Regional program grants
Equality Now
Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.equalitynow.org
Equality Now was founded in 1992 to protect and promote the human rights of women around the world. Equality Now’s Africa Regional Office documents violence and discrimination against African women; mobilizes resources and public opinion to advance their rights; and defends individual women suffering abuse. It also serves as the secretariat for the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR), an Africa-wide coalition working for the ratification, popularization and domestication of the African Union’s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
| 2009 | $3,361 | 6 months |
| This grant enables a staff member of Equality Now to attend a convening in Mbour, Senegal, with the purpose of strengthening and improving the quality and effectiveness of community grantmaking programs. |
| 2008 | $137,500 | 2 years |
| This grant enables Equality Now’s Fund to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to support West African partners in their work. This includes ensuring the introduction of a law banning FGM in Mali and promoting community-led initiatives in Niger. Equality Now plans to document and encourage effective anti-FGM work through exchange learning among its network of partners. |
| 2008 | $125,000 | 2 years |
| This grant enables the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights coalition (SOAWR) to implement the third phase of its campaign for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. SOAWR is supporting the participation of rural women at the African Union summit meetings, and providing grants to ten member organizations across Africa to expand their work with rural women for the advancement of their rights through the introduction of the protocol. |
| 2008 | $9,452 | 6 months |
| This grant enables Equality Now to support partners in Mali and Niger to be part of a rural women’s delegation attending the 2008 AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development in Cape Town, South Africa, with the purpose of sharing knowledge, building connections, and informing strategies. |
| 2007 | $55,000 | 1 year |
| This grant contributes to Equality Now’s Fund for Grassroots Activism to End Female Genital Mutilation (Anti-FGM Fund). The Anti-FGM Fund was created in 2000 to mobilize and channel resources to grassroots groups in Africa to help end the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. By 2007, the Anti-FGM Fund had provided grants totaling over $1 million to nearly 30 grassroots groups and campaigns in 17 African countries. The Anti-FGM Fund is using this grant to support the work of its community-based partners in East and West Africa. |
| 2007 | $10,000 | 6 months |
| This grant enables the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights coalition (SOAWR) to convene a meeting of its members to review progress and update strategies for the ratification and implementation of the Protocol by member states at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa. |
| 2006 | $4,020 | 6 months |
| This grant enables representatives from four community organizations that work with Equality Now to participate in the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. Based in Kenya and Tanzania, the four organizations are active in the African grassroots movement to end female genital mutilation. Their presence at the World Social Forum enables an exchange of learning and experience that informs and enhances their work in their own communities. |
| 2006 | $105,000 | 2 years |
| This grant enables the SOAWR coalition to build on the successful ratification of the African Union’s Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa by 15 African countries. SOAWR is promoting its ratification in additional countries and its domestication into national legislation. Specifically, New Field’s grant supports Equality Now’s regional coordination of SOAWR; a meeting of lawyers to strategize how to conduct test cases; preparation of a legal guide; and a grassroots women’s awareness-raising workshop. |
| 2006 | $3,000 | 6 months |
| This grant is for SOAWR’s coalition member, The Gambian Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP), to mobilize grassroots women leaders in The Gambia to participate in a non-governmental forum that runs parallel to the African Summit of Heads of States, with a particular focus on the terms of domestication of the Protocol in The Gambia. |
| 2005 | $30,000 | 1 year |
| This grant supports the SOAWR coalition to promote the ratification and domestication of the African Union’s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol provides a comprehensive legal framework for African women to exercise their rights by eliminating all forms of violence and discrimination against women. Specifically, the grant enables Equality Now’s Africa Regional Office to coordinate SOAWR and to lead awareness-raising efforts. |
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