Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
For Capacity Building Of A Feminist Activist African Network
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Amount$300,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/4/2016
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant will allow Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) to build upon their past work to strengthen the capacity of young feminists, by planning for and implementing integral training workshops. DAWN will invite African feminists to their annual Training Institute workshop, provide mentoring and capacity-building between workshops, and carry out an inter-regional learning and sharing advocacy exercise in Africa under the Gender, Economic and Ecological Justice Initiative.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
dawnnet.org
Address
Level 2, JP Bayly Trust Building 193 Rodwell Road, Suva, Fiji
Grants to this Grantee
for a project to explore policy transformations for a gender-just economic recovery
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).
for advancing feminist understanding of public-private partnerships' impact on women's human rights
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)
for capacity building and analysis
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.
