Grants and Contributions

This project seeks to enhance the equal enjoyment of the rights of adolescent girls and women (AGW) to be free from gender-based violence (GBV). This includes child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Cambodia, Kenya and the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) providing family planning competency-based training to healthcare workers; (2) strengthening capacity of health center staff, private providers and hospital staff in psycho-social counseling, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV); (3) facilitating community actions that address community-specific SRHR needs and causes of GBV; and (4) providing data-driven advocacy training to improve the use of data as evidence to support resilient solutions to adolescent girls and women’s SRHR and GBV needs.

These results will be achieved through key project activities: (a) gender-sensitive training of healthcare providers at the puskesmas (health center) level, including on SRHR issues, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, post-abortion care, female genital care, gender-based violence and nutrition for mothers and girls; (b) creating or rehabilitating infrastructure, e.g. equipping selected puskesmas and creating mobile and satellite clinics for hard-to-reach communities ; (c) capacity-building and support for F&F, including those who are marginalized or vulnerable, in SRHR; (d) gender-sensitive training of community leaders on gender issues, for example by organizing community forums aimed at better dialogue between F&F and local power-holders, or by training religious and traditional leaders; (e) raising awareness of gender issues among boys, men and parents.

The project will: 1) Prevent recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups through profiling of vulnerable children, providing alternatives, engaging communities in dialogues, and advocating for the implementation of key child protection policies; 2) Reintegrate children associated to armed forces and groups (CAAFAG) into their communities through safe release, access to gender-responsive services and psychosocial support, as well as durable, family-based solutions; and 3) Promote gender equality and empowerment through enhanced access of children to gender-responsive care, services and programs tailored to their specific needs.

This project aims to increase access to justice and strengthen the judiciary in Ecuador, through a gender-sensitive and intersectional perspective and with particular attention to the challenges and experiences of women and girls who have experienced gender-based violence.

This project aims to address the livelihood challenges of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by building their transferable vocational skills. Project activities include: (1) training 3,300 Rohingya refugees (40% women, 2% people with disabilities) to develop market-driven skills in key vocational areas. These areas include caregiving, cement and concrete works, electrical services, machine mechanics, and agriculture; (2) facilitating and increasing access to basic vocational training, focusing on accelerated adult learning, English language training, numeracy, and life skills. This supports labour mobility pathways in the case that beneficiaries move to a third country; and (3) working to increase access to sustainable, resilient and in-demand livelihood opportunities (wage and self-employment) in Cox’s Bazar camps and on Bhasan Char Island camps.
This project aims to directly benefits 11,000 Rohingya refugees.

Project activities of COL include: (1) improving the capacity of government staff to develop and implement appropriate open and distance learning (ODL) strategies, policies and programs; (2) improving the capacity of staff and trainers to use, implement and scale up gender-responsive, quality ODL opportunities offered by institutions; (3) facilitating access to learning opportunities, particularly for women and girls, through community sensitization and support; (4) providing mentorship and facilitating access to services and financial resources for entrepreneurship and livelihood development; and (5) establishing partnerships with labour markets, finance and the service industry to facilitate the transition between learning and its practical application in the market.

It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs) and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. Understanding that WROs and their networks are critical change agents, the Program provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster feminist alliances.

Project activities include: (1) developing behavior change intervention packages for in-school and out-of-school adolescents; (2) improving WASH facilities in schools and health facilities; (3) training teachers and establishing health clubs to support menstrual hygiene management and life skills training for adolescents; (4) building capacity of healthcare workers to deliver quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and WASH services; (5) strengthening sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) referral systems; and (6) improving the enabling policy environment by advocating for stronger WASH and sexual and reproductive health and rights policies.

This project aims to support the Government of the Philippines’ efforts to address stunting among children under the age of 5 (CU5) by improving local health system governance and service delivery. Specifically, the project seeks to help build the capacity of select local governments to plan and implement a multisectoral program for nutrition, focusing on the first 1000 days of life, in line with the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2023 to 2028. Project activities include: (1) training health service providers to improve provision of nutrition information and services (e.g. iron folic acid supplementation, antenatal care, exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding, zinc complements, among others); (2) raising awareness in communities to promote equal caregiving responsibilities among parents, and improve feeding practices for CU5; (3) advocating for the integration of nutrition interventions in key programs such as cash transfer program and food supplementation initiatives of the national government; (4) building the capacity of local government officials and health service providers to better track and report on nutrition interventions across relevant sectors and programs (e.g. food security, education, social welfare); and (5) engaging civil society and women’s rights organizations in nutrition planning and monitoring at the municipal level. This initiative reaches approximately 140,000 individuals, particularly pregnant women and CU5 in select provinces in the Philippines.

Project activities include: (1) providing support to education actors (such as teachers) to develop, test and implement, gender-transformative tools and approaches to deliver comprehensive sexuality education and life skills curriculum content; (2) providing support to community groups working in education to enhance and adapt approaches and innovations related to girls’ education and empowerment; (3) conducting participatory design process with teacher training providers to integrate gender-transformative and inclusive approaches and content to existing teacher training curricula; and (4) s providing support to local education actors to advocate for gender transformative education policy enhancements and implementation.