WFA provides core, sustainable, flexible funding and opportunities essential to supporting the leadership of women, girls, trans, and intersex people in realising their human rights and bringing transformative change from within their communities. In a little over two decade, WFA has disbursed more than USD 30.5 million to support more than 1,600 initiatives.
We fund organisations and individuals undertaking work for WGTI across 22 countries and territories in Asia.
Our Grants
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Our priority areas that reflect courageous activists and strategic movements
WFA believes economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights are interlinked and that organisations work on a continuum of rights violations and deprivation. We fully recognise that interventions happen at multiple levels and are crosscutting and intersectional.
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1. Strengthening Feminist Voices
Supporting and strengthening grassroots feminist leadership and movements has always been a priority for us. In the past, grants have supported institutional strengthening, capacity development for groups and their constituencies, grassroots mobilisation, campaigns, research, advocacy, and outreach.
2. Access to Justice
We support groups and individuals working on increasing women, girls, trans and intersex people’s access to justice, including raising legal awareness among communities, creating pathways and mechanisms for survivors to access lawyers and the judicial system, training women paralegals, supporting women lawyers, and others.
3. Autonomy, Decisions, and Sexual Rights
We support promotion of the right to sexuality, decision-making, and bodily autonomy of women, girls, trans and intersex people. Beginning with supporting work on child and forced marriage and young women’s leadership and choices, this priority area also grew to encompass groups working on LBT rights, abortion rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
4. Movement and Labour
We support women, girls, trans, and intersex people’s right to safe migration, economic justice, and labour rights, with a particular focus on women working in vulnerable, informal, and stigmatized sectors such as sex work, garment factories, tea plantations, domestic work, and migrant labour.
5. Environmental Justice
We recognise the need for feminist leadership in resource management, disaster risk reduction and resilience, addressing climate change, and sustainable development. We support work aimed at securing women, girls, trans and intersex people’s rights over natural resources across a diversity of constituencies, including women with disabilities, women farmers, garment factory workers, and indigenous and Adivasi women.
6. Crisis and Changing Contexts
Through our newest thematic, we provide unrestricted, flexible support that enables our partners and their constituencies to respond to and recover from emergencies/crises in accordance to their contexts and needs.
Interventions related to addressing women, girls, trans, and intersex rights issues that are particularly relevant in the current context in the region, which are not covered by the five priority areas above are also welcome.
Programmes
Current Programmes
Strengthening Feminist Movements
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The Strengthening Feminist Movements (SFM) programme is dedicated to supporting women, girls, trans and intersex rights activists and organisations working at the local, subnational, and national levels through core and flexible funding that can be used to cover institutional costs or to fill funding gaps based on their needs.
Leading from the South
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Leading from the South is a special grantmaking initiative led by African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Fondos de Mujeres del Sur (FMS), the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI-AYNI) and WFA.
As a feminist resource alliance, LFS supports feminist activism and lobbying efforts by women, girls, and trans-led organisations, movements, and networks at the regional, national, and grassroots levels in the global South.
Kaagapay Solidarity Fund For Feminist Resilience
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The Kaagapay Solidarity Fund for Feminist Resilience responds to the increasingly volatile context faced by women, girls, trans, intersex and other groups in Asia. We stand in solidarity with women, girls, trans, and intersex activists and groups living through complex emergencies and crises.
Application for Kaagapay grants is only open to WFA partners, and is strictly by invitation only.
Linking & Learning
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Linking and Learning (L&L) grants are focused on individual activists and feminist groups to support their participation and engagement in global and regional advocacy, movement building, and networking spaces. In the last two years, we have focused on ensuring that the voices of feminist activists from the region are represented in global and regional spaces.
Legal Fellowship Programme
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The Legal Fellowship Programme is aimed at promoting feminist lawyering in the region and enhancing the capacity of early and mid-career women, trans and intersex lawyers to advocate based on human rights principles. The goal is to establish a robust network of feminist lawyers in the region by empowering district-level lawyers at primary courts to spearhead the movement for access to justice from the grassroots level.
Bhoomi Youth Leadership Initiative
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The Bhoomi Initiative is a partnership between the Foundation for a Just Society (FJS) and WFA, seeking to address the urgent need for developing and strengthening leadership and organisational skills among young people from South Asia’s most historically oppressed communities, particularly Dalit and Oppressed-Caste women and queer-transgender communities.
In 2020, Women’s Fund Asia Limited (WFAL) was registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in Australia with registration under the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission. WFAL is a subsidiary of WFA, and its operations are controlled by WFA. WFA is the sole member of the Company. The Executive Director of WFA serves as its Executive head, with the responsibility of making it fully operational in a way to serve the mandate of WFA.
Contact
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