Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a global South feminist network of scholar-activists who research, analyze, and publish critiques and alternative perspectives on global and regional development issues and advocate for gender equality and the fulfillment of women’s human rights in multilateral policy spaces. This grant will support producing robust feminist analysis of macroeconomic policies and systems to influence the post-COVID 19 economic trajectory. (Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance Program).

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a global South feminist network of scholar-activists who research, analyze, and publish critiques and alternative perspectives on global (and regional) development issues; and advocate for gender equality and the fulfillment of women’s human rights in multilateral policy spaces. This grant will support DAWN to develop a range of learning and communication products (such as videos, podcasts, and publications) for advocacy and capacity building on the impact of public-private partnerships on women’s economics rights. The grant will also support online and in-person advocacy and capacity building for young feminists from the global South. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

To support a select group of African feminists, including young feminist activists and economists to build their capacity to engage with the Financing for Development and post 2015 discussions through exchange among themselves, and with feminist advocates from other regions of the economic South.