Grants and Contributions

Working with a project advisory committee, key stakeholders and network members, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work.

Working with a project advisory committee, key stakeholders and network members, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work.

To achieve this, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work, and develop, pilot and promote and disseminate new practice and policy solutions that address fair wages, pensions and other benefits, equal rights at work, and measures to improve and sustain government investment in the sector.

The project supports the protection of rights of Afghan women and girls from gender-based violence. It strengthens Afghan civil society organizations to coordinate, advocate, protect and promote the rights and empowerment of women and girls.

The goal is to overcome the lack of representation of women in Parliament and promote their political empowerment so that they can take part in the decisions that affect the country’s development and stability. Gender-based electoral violence is considered a primary obstacle to women holding leadership positions and their full participation in the electoral process in Haiti.

The project aims to improve the well-being of children and youth in five countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua), whom are at-risk of irregular migration. The project addresses the poverty, exclusion and lack of opportunities that have forced tens of thousands of children and young people (between the ages of 6 and 24), many of them girls, to flee Central America in the past several years. Many of these irregular migrants encounter violence and sexual exploitation, both in their home countries and on the perilous journey north through Mexico toward the U.S. Through an empowering community-based approach, the project seeks to provide safe and positive alternatives designed to keep children and young people in their home communities.

Project activities include: (1) improving child protection services and violence prevention programs at the community level; (2) improving the employment potential for at-risk youth; and (3) building the capacity of youth to advocate for their own protection in light of the risks of irregular child migration. Children and young adults can therefore be active participants in their own protection.

Project activities include: (1) supporting coordination between local and national actors, and decision makers in the fruit chain; (2) strengthening the capacity of national and local actors to conduct assessments and prepare strategies using a value chain approach; (3) developing and implementing tools to effectively involve women and youth, and promote energy efficiency in value chain assessments and planning; (4) training farmers in fruit cooperatives in agro-techniques, management and market studies, with an emphasis on training women and youth; (5) providing equipment and inputs to strengthen fruit cooperatives capacities to increase fresh and processed fruit production and sales; (6) supporting cooperatives in the implementation of quality control mechanisms; (7) training direct (for example, preparation for retail and industry, cleaning and storage, processing, distribution and commercialization) and indirect (service and input providers such as seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, soils studies and water provision, packaging, and transport) actors in the value chain approach; (8) providing equipment and inputs to strengthen the capacity of these key actors in the value chain to help overcome bottlenecks identified in the assessments; and (9) implementing enabling practices to incorporate gender equality and promote youth employment among direct and indirect actors of the value chain.

The goal of the initiative is to develop partnerships that enable reciprocal flow and uptake of research knowledge between researchers and stakeholders, in order to produce evidence-informed and gender-responsive solutions to foster the labour force participation of men and women with health issues and disabilities, as well as older workers with caregiving responsibilities outside their paid work.

The goal of the initiative is to develop partnerships that enable reciprocal flow and uptake of research knowledge between researchers and stakeholders, in order to produce evidence-informed and gender-responsive solutions to foster the labour force participation of men and women with health issues and disabilities, as well as older workers with caregiving responsibilities outside their paid work.