ActionAid USA
For Support Of The Economic Rights Work Of The Women's Rights Program
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Amount$375,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/14/2020
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Term5.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
ActionAid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the front lines of poverty and injustice. This grant to ActionAid USA will continue to support the Valuing Women’s Work and Young Urban Women projects under one grant. ActionAid USA will promote movement building with young urban women in Ghana, India, and South Africa around economic security, bodily integrity, and unpaid care work. ActionAid USA will support convenings, networking, and the presence of advocates in key decision-making spaces, and it will advocate for economic policy alternatives with a feminist lens. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
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)
