Women Thrive Worldwide
For General Support
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Amount$900,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2014
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
This grant would support the overall mission and activities of Women Thrive, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that works with women’s groups in developing countries. Women Thrive advocates for changes in U.S. and global policy that would permit women and men to share equally in opportunities for economic prosperity, citizen voice, and freedom from fear and violence. During the grant period, the organization would be focused on three goals: (1) increasing U.S. government commitment to and investment in creating equitable economies in poor developing countries, with a priority focus on gender and the "invisible" economy, (2) instituting a stand-alone U.N. Sustainable Development Goal on equitable learning for all children, and (3) codification of the United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.womenthrive.org
Grants to this Grantee
for learning advocacy within the post-2015 development goals
With this support, Women Thrive would continue its work with Global South organizations using a variety of advocacy tactics to shape the post-2015 development agenda so that the concepts of quality learning and gender equity in education are advanced. Women Thrive defines success as: (1) a stand-alone goal focused on equitable learning and (2) education and women’s organizations from the Global South showing improved advocacy capacity and directly influencing post-2015 education and learning proposals.
for learning advocacy within the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals
With this grant, Women Thrive Worldwide (formerly Women's Edge Coalition) would mobilize donors, governments, and citizen groups in and outside the education sector to strengthen learning in the global policy framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015. Women Thrive would also track and influence other policy debates on education and learning that intersect with the U.N.’s MDG process. These include UNESCO’s new set of Education for All goals, the Global Partnership for Education’s increased focus on learning, and other bilateral education programs.
