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Grants Awarded | Niger River Basin
World Neighbors
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Oklahoma, USA
http://www.wn.org
Since 1951, World Neighbors has assisted some of the most remote and marginalized communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to achieve transformation by addressing the challenges they face. World Neighbors works with communities over many years to develop, manage and sustain their own programs and to meet their own needs. The organization’s programs focus on sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods; reproductive and community health, natural resource management; local capacity building and gender.
| 2008 | $4,998 | 6 months |
| This grant enables representatives from World Neighbors in West Africa 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 | $25,552 | 1 year |
| This grant enables World Neighbors in West Africa to provide technical assistance and training to rural women’s community groups in Burkina Faso, with a focus on management, leadership, literacy, networking, and women’s rights. The grant also supports World Neighbors West Africa to extend similar programs to Mali and Niger. |
| 2007 | $5,433 | 6 months |
| This grant enables a staff member of World Neighbors West Africa to attend the Women Deliver conference in London, and to build connections with organizations working on similar reproductive health issues in West Africa. |
| 2006 | $45,000 | 1 year |
| Building on work previously funded, this grant enables World Neighbors to facilitate learning exchanges on gender issues among its partner organizations in Burkina Faso and India. It plans to synthesize and document findings and recommendations to inform its own gender strategy affecting work in many parts of the world. A portion of the grant goes directly to support income generation and literacy programs for rural women in Burkina Faso. |
| 2005 | $35,000 | 1 year |
| This grant helps World Neighbors develop a consistent gender approach across its programs to build women’s capacity so that they can become effective family and community leaders and decision-makers. The grant gives World Neighbors the opportunity to learn from its program development efforts in Burkina Faso and India and, based on this learning, design and test the organization’s emerging gender framework that will be applied across all its programs. |
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