Firelight Foundation

Firelight finds, funds, and strengthens catalytic community-based organizations (CBOs) working with their communities to address important systems for women and children in southern and eastern Africa. A critical aspect of Firelight’s work is centering and amplifying the perspectives, insights, and analysis of community stakeholders who are most affected by key issues. This grant supports research examining the intersectionality of women’s agency and choices with early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania. Guided by an intersectional Global South feminist approach, and centering the perspectives, analysis, and thought leadership of community-based co-researchers, Firelight will collaborate with CBOs and research institutions to gather, make sense of, and build contextually grounded knowledge about how women’s agency and choices are affected by and affects early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.