Estas defensoras lucharon por los derechos sobre la tierra, de las mujeres y de los pueblos indígenas; haciendo frente a las industrias extractivas, escribiendo poesía y promoviendo el amor. Una de ellas desapareció hace ya 19 años. Únete a nosotras para recordar y honrar a estas defensoras de derechos humanos, su trabajo y su legado, compartiendo los memes aquí incluidos; y tuiteando las etiquetas #WHRDTribute y #16Días.

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Visita nuestro Tributo en línea 2015

What if we perceived land and Nature not as private property to exploit, but as a whole to live in, learn from, and harmoniously coexist with? What if we repaired our relationships with the land and embraced more sustainable alternatives that nurture both the planet and its communities?

Nous Sommes la Solution (We Are the Solution, NSS) is one of many women-led movements striving to do this. This is their story.

Votre participation à l’enquête WITM est importante à plusieurs égards. Vous aurez, notamment, l’occasion de faire part de votre expérience vécue de la mobilisation de fonds pour soutenir votre organisation, de réclamer votre autorité en tant qu’experte sur la manière dont l’argent est transféré et qui il atteint réellement, et de contribuer à un plaidoyer collectif et cohérent auprès de financeurs afin que les fonds circulent davantage et soient de meilleure qualité. Au cours des deux dernières décennies, la recherche WITM de l’AWID s’est révélée être une ressource clé pour les activistes et les financeurs. Nous vous invitons chaleureusement à participer à sa troisième édition pour souligner la situation actuelle des ressources, remettre en question les fausses solutions, et identifier les modifications nécessaires dans le financement afin que les mouvements s’épanouissent et relèvent les défis complexes de notre époque.

These transgender women were murdered because of their activism and their gender identity. There are insufficient laws recognizing trans* rights, and even where these laws exist, very little is being done to safeguard the rights of trans* people. Please join AWID in honoring these defenders, their activism and legacy by sharing the memes below with your colleagues, networks and friends and by using the hashtags #WHRDTribute and #16Days.

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See Our 2015 WHRD Tribute

What are the Objectives of Nous Sommes la Solution?

Yes! We recognize and appreciate different reasons why feminists, in their respective contexts, don’t have external funding: from being ineligible to apply for grants and/or receive money from abroad, to relying on resources generated autonomously as a political strategy in its own right. We want to hear from you regardless of your experience with external funding.

This section highlights key resources recommended by AWID so you can conduct your own WITM research.

In this section

• People needed
• Potential expenses
• Estimated time
• Resources needed
• Resources available

People needed

• 1 or more person(s) to lead overall implementation of research methodology and ensure all key pieces are on track (Sections 2-11)
• 1 or more person(s) to conceptualize the key research objectives and guiding questions
• 1 or more person(s) to refine and conduct the research methodology, including collecting data
• 1 or more person(s) to conduct relevant qualitative and quantitative analysis of collected data
• 1 or more person(s) to document and package research findings for desired audience(s)
• 1 or more person(s) to serve as an editor to your final products
• 1 or more person(s) to conduct outreach to spread the word about your survey and advocacy using your research results

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Potential expenses

1. Staff and/or consultant salaries
2. Data analysis software if conducting analysis of large dataset in-house. Options:
   - SPSS
   - Stata
   - R (this is free)
3. Cost of producing publications and research products
4. If desired, incentive prize that survey participants can win if they complete the survey
5. If desired, incentives to offer your advisors

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Estimated time

• For research process: 6 to 18 months, depending on size of dataset(s) and staff capacity
• For advocacy: 1-2 years, as determined by your organizational goals

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Resources needed

• List of advisor organizations, donors and activists
• List of online spaces and events/networks to distribute your survey and present your survey results
• List of donors, activists, and women’s rights organizations to interview
• Prepared interview questions
• List of publication sources to use for desk research

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Resources available

• Sample 1 of Research Framing
• Sample 2 of Research Framing
• Example: 2011 WITM Global Survey
• Sample WITM Global Survey
• Sample letter to grantmakers requesting access to databases
• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Donors
• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Activists & Women’s Rights Organizations
• Sample Advocacy Plan

Online tools

• Survey Monkey: Free
• Survey Gizmo: Converts to SPSS for analysis very easily
• Tutorial: Gentle Introduction to Cleaning Data
• Visualization Tools
• “Ready to Go?” Worksheet

Once you gather these resources, you can estimate the costs for your research using our “Ready to Go? Worksheet”

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Before you begin

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2. Frame your research

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Before you begin

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2. Frame your research

The Ready to Go? Worksheet helps you estimate resources, staff and budget needed for your research

Download the toolkit in PDF

Nous Sommes la Solution eleva y multiplica el liderazgo de las mujeres rurales que trabajan por soluciones realmente africanas para la soberanía alimentaria.

Por el momento, la encuesta en KOBO está disponible en árabe, español, francés, inglés, portugués y ruso. Tendrás oportunidad de seleccionar el idioma de preferencia al inicio de la encuesta.

Interviews produce in-depth information that you cannot easily obtain from surveys. While surveys focuses mainly on quantifiable data and closed questions, interviews allow for expert opinions from activists and donors, and open-ended questions which can provide context to survey data results.

In this section

• General tips
  1. Before conducting your interviews
  2. During the interviews
• Specialized interviews
  1. Donor interviews
  2. Women’s rights organizations and activists interviews
• Preliminary findings

General tips

1. Before conducting your interviews

Send the interviewees a concept note with your objectives for the interview and for your overall research, as well as a list of questions.

This allows them to prepare answers for more complicated questions and look up information that they may not have immediately on hand.

2. During the interviews

• You can conduct interviews while your survey is running, in order to save time.
• Try to keep your interviews as consistent as possible in order to facilitate systematic analysis of results. This means asking the same questions. Coding identical responses to each question will allow you to uncover hidden trends.
• The interviews can also be used to flesh out some of the survey findings

Do not base your questions on assumptions about your interviewees’ knowledge.
Instead, first clarify what they know – this will reveal information as well.

• DON’T: “Given the current funding trends in Switzerland, do you know of any opportunities for collaboration? This question assumes that the interviewee knows current funding trends and that their understanding of funding trends matches yours.
• DO: First ask “What is your understanding of current funding trends in Switzerland?”, followed by “Do you know of any opportunities for collaboration?” This will reveal what their understanding is, giving you even more information than the first question.

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Specialized interviews

1. Donor interviews

Interviews with donors will allow you to build deeper relationships with them, which will be useful when you conduct post-research advocacy. They will also provide you with deeper insight into funders’ decision-making processes.

Suggested topics of focus for donor interviews:

• What are their funding priorities? Why and how did they select those priorities? For example, why do they choose project-funding over core support or vice versa?
• What are annual amounts allocated to the advancement of women’s human rights? This will strengthen overall reliability of data collected.
• Have they noticed any funding trends, and what do they believe are the origins and politics behind these trends?
• What is their theory of social change and how does that impact their relationships with women’s rights organizations?

View samples of donor interviews

2. Women’s rights organizations and activists interviews

Interviews with women’s rights organizations and activists will provide you with insight into their on-the-ground realities. Again, these interviews will allow you to build deeper relationships that can be incorporated into your advocacy, particularly to encourage collaboration between donors and activists.

Suggested topics of focus for women’s rights organizations and activist interviews:

• Long-term funding priority trends noted by women’s organizations and their impact.
• Successful examples of feminist and collaborative resource mobilization strategies that build strong and complementary movements.
• “Making the case” for why it is important to support women’s organizations and organizing.
• How different actors understand the social change process and their role in advancing/achieving gender equality and women’s rights.

View samples of women’s organizations and activists interviews

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Preliminary findings

Through the course of your WITM research, we recommend analyzing your preliminary findings. Presenting your preliminary findings opens up opportunities to conduct more interviews and get feedback on your research process and initial results. This feedback can be incorporated into your final research.

AWID conducts “WITM convenings” to share preliminary results of survey data and interviews. These gatherings allow participants (activists, women’s rights organizations, and donors) to debate and discuss the results, clarifying the context, creating more ownership amongst members of the movement, and providing more input for final research.

For example, the Resource Mobilization Hub for Indigenous Women’s Rights at the World Summit on Indigenous Philanthropy was used as a space to debut preliminary results.

See the presentation given at the RMH

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4. Collect and analyze your data

Next step

6. Conduct desk research

Estimated time:

• 1.5 - 3 months

People needed:

• 1 or more research person(s)

Resources needed:

• List of donors and women’s rights organizations and activists to interview
• Prepared interview questions
• Concept Note (You can use the research framing you created in the “Frame your research” section)

Resources available:

• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Donors
• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Activists & Women’s Rights Organizations

Previous step

4. Collect and analyze your data

Next step

6. Conduct desk research

Ready to Go? Worksheet

Download the toolkit in PDF

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