ActionAid USA
For Support Of The Young Urban Women Project
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Amount$566,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/8/2017
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Term20.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant will support the third phase of ActionAid’s Young Urban Women: Life Choices and Livelihoods in Urban Areas project, which seeks to ensure that young women living in urban areas in Ghana, South Africa, and India gain freedom and control over their bodies, time, income, and labor. ActionAid will work with young women leaders to develop a priority advocacy agenda based on key findings from the first two phases of the project, such as the gendered impact of macroeconomic policies and gender-responsive public services. ActionAid will also develop a platform to develop feminist and youth-centered proposals on sustainable and inclusive urban development policies.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.actionaidusa.org
Address
1220 L Street NW, Suite 725, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
ActionAid is an international network of organizations dedicated to social justice, poverty eradication, and gender equality in over 70 countries. Their work strengthens the agency of people living in poverty and partners with movements and grassroots leaders to develop holistic, community-led solutions to their most pressing challenges. ActionAid USA works at the U.S., regional, and international levels to advance ActionAid’s shared mission. In partnership with communities and organizations in the U.S. and around the world, ActionAid USA engages in advocacy and activism to undertake global policy efforts and mobilizes funds in support of ActionAid’s programs around the world. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for convening and connecting movements in Africa on feminist alternatives to neoliberalism
ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 50 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. ActionAid builds international momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support the convening of a group of strategic thinkers, including feminists, from across Africa on building a new economic paradigm to replace neoliberalism. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
