The COVID-19 pandemic has changed – and continues to change – political landscapes and, in turn, the focus and priorities of feminist movements in known and unknown ways. The crises resulting from the pandemic continue to have significant and disproportionate impacts on women-, girls-, trans-, and intersex-led groups and the communities they serve, exacerbating existing structural and power inequalities within Asian societies.
This advocacy brief provides a summary of how the Kaagapay Fund to Support Feminist Resilience in the face of COVID-19 responded to the pandemic and the crises that bore from it through flexible and immediate funding. It also outlines the lessons learned from how it supported grantee partners to rebuild and sustain feminist movements while creating a blueprint for WFA to respond to future crises.