Beyond Investing in Women and Girls: Mobilizing Resources

Key Findings:

1. Women and girls are in the public eye, recognized as key agents in development, with unprecedented visibility. 
2. Vast resources are becoming available under the broad umbrella of ‘women and girls’. AWID mapped 170 related initiatives that collectively committed USD14.6 Billion. 
3. Mechanisms and sources of development financing and philanthropy are becoming increasingly diversified, but economic growth and return on investment are principle drivers for many of the “new actors” supporting women and girls, with human rights taking a backseat. 
4. Women’s organizations are key change agents: when supported strategically and over the long-term, they achieve significant impact in gender power relations and the lives of women and girls.
5. Despite this, the current spotlight on women and girls has had relatively little impact on improving the funding situation for a large majority of women’s organizations around the world. In 2010, the median annual income of over 740 women’s organizations around the world was just USD 20,000.

Contact us at fundher@awid.org to learn more about how you can help transform funding and philanthropy for women and girls. We can provide concrete suggestions, offer feedback or present the research findings in more detail to ensure that women’s rights organizations and movements are at the centre of these discussions and are receiving significant strategic support.