ActionAid USA
For Support Of The Economic Rights Work Of The Women's Rights Program
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Amount$1,600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/25/2019
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Term19.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
This grant will continue to support the Valuing Women’s Work and Young Urban Women projects under one grant. ActionAid US will promote movement building with young urban women in Ghana, India, and South Africa on issues around economic security, bodily integrity, and unpaid care work. ActionAid USA will support capacity building, convenings, networking, and presence of advocates in key decision-making spaces. Using participatory research, ActionAid USA will generate wider alliances on issues of inequality and tax justice, and advocate for government accountability for gender-responsive public services and economic policy alternatives with a feminist lens.
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 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)
for customer relationship management platform upgrade
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, building international momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. This organizational effectiveness grant to ActionAid USA will support the transition to a new IT platform combining all of ActionAid USA’s information technology needs into one integrated platform allowing for standardized workflows.
for a project to ensure that economies and public service systems work for women and girls globally
ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. ActionAid’s work aims to build local to global momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by women and young people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support ActionAid’s work on women’s economic justice and rights through the Young Urban Women and Valuing Women’s Work programs in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and South Africa, as well as regionally and globally. These programs collaborate in challenging mainstream macroeconomic policies, narratives, and institutions that fail to recognize and value women’s paid and unpaid work and undermine their access to decent work and bodily autonomy and integrity. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
