Grants and Contributions:

Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership - Senegal

7465321 P014753001

$7,500,000.00

Feb 17, 2025 - Mar 31, 2031

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) program, launched in 2017 for a five-year period (2018–2023) and renewed in April 2023 for another five years (2023–2028). It supports local and regional women's organizations and networks working to promote women’s rights, empower women, and achieve gender equality in developing countries. Recognizing that women’s rights organizations (WROs) and women human rights defenders are essential agents of change, the program aims to support their activities, strengthen their institutional capacities, and foster the creation of networks and alliances. The renewed WVL program continues to address a globally recognized lack of funding and support, while bolstering WROs and women’s rights movements worldwide. It acknowledges that groups working on intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis and conflict settings are even more underfunded. The project, implemented by Oxfam Quebec, a Canadian non-governmental organization, will contribute to improving the rights of women and girls in all their diversity and advancing gender equality in Senegal. This ultimate goal will be achieved through three pillars of intervention: (1) Strengthening the organizational sustainability of WROs so they can fulfill their mandates related to gender equality; (2) Enhancing the programming and advocacy efforts of WROs and activists to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; (3) Increasing the number and quality of platforms, networks, and alliances for women’s rights advocacy to influence political, legal, and social changes. The VLFR - Senegal project will directly benefit a total of 56 WROs (including at least 13 networks and collectives and 8 informal/emerging organizations) and at least 20 women human rights defenders (WHRDs). While the project has a national scope, the programmatic and advocacy actions of supported WROs will primarily, though not exclusively, focus on the following regions: Saint-Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kédougou, Diourbel, Thiès, Kaolack, Fatick, and Dakar. An initial estimate places the project’s reach at approximately 32,000 people, of whom 24,000 are women and girls (40% young women and girls aged 15–24). It will target structurally excluded groups, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), women with disabilities, women living with HIV, sex workers, rural women, women affected by climate change, and those involved in natural resource exploitation. To achieve the desired results, the project will implement the four mechanisms of the WVL program: (1) Multi-year core funding for organizational and programmatic capacity building; (2) Rapid and responsive funding; (3) Strengthening the organizational capacities of WROs; and (4) Movement strengthening.

Global Affairs Canada

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced organizational sustainability of local women’s rights organizations (WROs) to deliver their gender equality mandate; (2) strengthened programming and advocacy of WROs, and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; and (3) increased effectiveness of sub-national, national, regional and global women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change in Senegal.

Montréal, Quebec, CA H3J 2Y2

064-2024-2025-Q4-00035

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

3203119075091

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Oxfam-Québec

Ville-Marie--Le Sud-Ouest--Île-des-Soeurs

24077

Contributions - Bilateral Programming

Contribution Programmation bilatérale