Global Fund for Women

This renewal grant to the Global Fund for Women (GFW) will support the youth-led movement for abortion rights in Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea. GFW and a regional Movement Committee seek to expand access to safe abortion, especially for marginalized groups, by strengthening interconnections between abortion rights, sexual and reproductive justice, and gender justice activism. During the grant period, the Movement Committee and GFW will deepen participatory grantmaking, capacity strengthening, and collective action with the regional abortion rights ecosystem. In addition, GFW and its partners seek to influence philanthropic practice in feminist, movement-led grantmaking and governance. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)

This grant to the Global Fund for Women will support the Feminist Fund for Abortion Accompaniment in the Global South. Trained abortion accompaniers provide stigma-free information, medication abortion counseling, and individualized support throughout the abortion process, a model that has existed for 20 years in Latin America and has been growing in Africa. The fund aims to build capacity for scaled-up access to self-managed abortion and share best practices and strengthen models for providing high-quality, evidence-based abortion accompaniment in Africa and Latin America. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)

Global Fund for Women is a feminist fund that supports gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. This grant is to Global Fund for Women which is serving as the fiscal sponsor for the Collaborative for a Gender Just Economy pooled fund. The Collaborative for a Gender Just Economy pooled fund aims to mobilize greater resources to advance gender justice and feminist economic principles in Global South macro-level economic policymaking. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).