By Amelia Wu | Director of Philanthropic Partnerships
This year, the Global Fund for Women awarded grants totaling $300,000 to five women-led, grassroots organizations advancing women’s right to live free from violence in Ciudad Juarez and surrounding areas. Our grantee partners report that the situation continues to be dire, with over 300 killings this year. As noted in our last report, the six organizations that we have supported through this project include:
1. Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres, A.C (CEDEHM)
2. Justicia para Nuestras Hijas
3. Madres en Busca de Justicia
4. Sin Violencia A.C.
5. Casa Amiga, Centro de Crisis, A.C.
6. Red Mesa de Mujeres de Ciudad Juarez, A.C.
Since our last report, we have also created an “Action Fund” of $50,000 to provide financial support to time-bound, specific activities intended to address violence that is specifically targeting women’s rights activists working in Ciudad Juarez. We have been in regular communication with our grantee partners to discuss potential uses for this fund. Some ideas include a campaign for the protection of women’s rights defenders in Juarez and a security system for one organization’s office to protect them against violence that is being threatened against them.
In addition to providing flexible, general support grants which make the work of these activists possible, we also provide support through linking, referring, and leveraging additional funding sources for their programs and operations. The Global Fund for Women is currently working with a cohort of funders that includes the Fund for Non-Violence, IDEX, AJWS, and Angelica (a Mexican funder) to respond to emergency needs around violence against women in Mexico. The goal is to create a mechanism that is more strategic so that funders can respond to the needs of local activists. We are coordinating with these peers to make sure that the needs of local groups are funded by leveraging each other’s resources and referring groups we cannot fully fund. In addition, we are providing technical assistance to Urgent Action Fund/Latin America & Caribbean ensuring that they are at the table at key venues focused on human rights defenders as they become established as an essential emergency human right funder for the region. With our grantee partners, we also discussed connecting them to Front Line, an organization that protects human rights defenders.
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