With up to 2,500 participants on-site and 3,000 virtual/hybrid participants, it will be the largest AWID Forum ever. We envision multiple spaces for meaningful connection, learning, exchange, strategic conversations, healing and celebration. It is the first time we gather in this space since the pandemic, and we can’t wait.

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• GLOBAL Y DIVERSA: Reflexiona acerca de las realidades de la dotación de recursos entre las organizaciones feministas a escala mundial y desglosada por regiones.
• CONTEXTUALIZADA: Se centra en las voces, perspectivas y experiencias de los movimientos feministas en toda su riqueza, audacia y diversidad, en sus respectivos contextos.
• DE CREACIÓN CONJUNTA: Desarrollada y puesta a prueba en consulta estrecha con lxs afiliadxs y movimientos aliados de AWID.
• COMPLEMENTARIA: Contribuye a la evidencia disponible acerca del estado de la dotación de recursos para las organizaciones feministas, por los derechos de las mujeres y la justicia de género por parte de activistas, donantes feministas y aliadxs, y la difunde.
• PLURILINGÜE: Disponible en árabe, español, francés, inglés, portugués y ruso.
• CONFIDENCIAL: Damos prioridad a tu privacidad y anonimato. En ningún caso, AWID divulgará información acerca de una organización en particular ni exhibirá información que permita identificar a una organización por su ubicación o características. Los detalles de nuestra política de privacidad se encuentran disponibles aquí.
• ACCESIBLE: Es accesible a personas con distinto grado de capacidades auditivas, de movilidad, visuales y cognitivas, y responderla toma aproximadamente 30 minutos.
• REPLICABLE: Es susceptible de ser replicada por los movimientos en sus respectivos contextos; las herramientas y los conjuntos de datos de la encuesta estarán disponibles al público como forma de apoyar una mayor investigación y la promoción colectiva.

Chapitre 1

Promouvoir les programmes féministes : principales avancées en matière de genre et de sexualité

Alors que les fondamentalismes, les fascismes et autres systèmes d’oppression se métamorphosent et trouvent de nouvelles tactiques et stratégies pour consolider leur pouvoir et influence, les mouvements féministes persévèrent et célèbrent leurs victoires nationales, régionales et internationales.

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The results of your research will also shape your advocacy – for example, your results will have revealed which sectors fund the most and which sectors you feel need donor education.

In this section

• Build your advocacy strategy
• Reach out to your network
• Adapt your strategy to the sector
  1. Women’s rights organizations
  2. Bilaterals and multilaterals
  3. Private foundations
  4. Women’s funds
  5. Private sector and new donors

Build your advocacy strategy

In the “Frame your research” section of this toolkit we recommend that you plot out what goals you hope to accomplish with your research. These goals will allow you to build an advocacy strategy once your research is complete.

An advocacy strategy is a plan of distributing your research results in a way that allows you to accomplish your goals, falling under the broader goal of advocating with key sectors to make positive changes for resources for women’s rights organizing.

Using the goals defined in your research framing:

• List the potential groups of contacts who can be interested in your research results
• For each group, explain in one sentence how they can help you achieve your goal.
• For each group, mark what tone you are supposed to use to talk to them (formal professional, commentary casual, do they understand the field’s jargon?)
• List every media that can allow you to reach these audiences, in the proper tone (social media to build community feeling, press release for official announcement to a general audience, etc.)

From this list – as exhaustive as possible, chose which ones are the most efficient for achieve your goals. (See below for specific examples of audiences and advocacy methods)

Once you have a strategy, you can start the dissemination.

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Reach out to your network

To disseminate your results, reach out first to the contacts through whom you distributed your survey, as well as to all your survey and interview participants.

• First, take this opportunity to thank them for contributing to this research.
• Share with them the main survey results and analysis.
• Make it easy for them to disseminate your product through their networks by giving them samples of tweets, Facebook posts or even a short introduction that they could copy and paste on their website.

Do not forget to state clearly a contact person and ask for a confirmation once they have published it.

On top of making you able to track who disseminated your report, it will help build stronger relationships within your network.

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Adapt your strategy to the sector

As an example, we present below a list of sectors AWID engages in advocacy.

• Use this list as a point of departure to develop your own sector-specific advocacy plan.
• Create an objective for what you hope to accomplish for each sector.
• Be sure to add any additional sectors to this list that are relevant for your particular research, such as local NGOs or local governments, for example.

Your list of advisory organizations and individuals will also be useful here. They can help you disseminate the report in different spaces, as well as introduce you to new organizations or advocacy spaces.

1. Women’s rights organizations

Sample objectives: Update women’s rights organizations on funding trends; brainstorm collaborative efforts for resource mobilization using research findings; influence how they approach resource mobilization

Examples of possible advocacy methods:

• Offer seminars, learning cafés or other events throughout your region, in relevant languages, in order to update women’s rights organizations with the findings of your research.

• If you can’t physically reach everyone in your region, think about setting-up a webinar and online presentations.

• Present your findings at larger convenings, such as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

• Beyond your own organizations’ newsletters and website, write articles on different platforms that are frequented by your target audience.
  Some examples: World Pulse, OpenDemocracy, feministing.

2. Bilaterals and multilaterals

Sample Objective: Raising awareness about how funding is not meeting established commitments and how this sector needs to improve funding mechanisms to finance women’s rights organizing.

Identify which bilateral & multilaterals have the most influence on funding – this could include local embassies.

Examples of possible advocacy methods:

• Enlist ally organizations and influential individuals (some may already be your advisors for this research process) to do peer education.
• Seek their assistance to disseminate research finding widely in large multilaterals (like the UN).
• Present at and/or attend influential spaces where bilaterals and multilaterals are present, such as GENDERNET .
• Publish articles in outlets that are read by bilaterals and multilaterals such as devex, Better Aid, Publish What You Pay.

3. Private foundations

Sample Objective: Expand the quality and quantity of support for women’s rights organizations.

Examples of possible advocacy methods:

• Attend and/or present at events led by private foundations.
• Approach private foundations through membership groups, such as the International Human Rights Funders Group or African Philanthropy Network. Propose sessions at their events.
• Reach out to progressive grantmaking alliances, such as EDGE Funders, for dissemination and possible presentation.
• Publish articles on different outlets read by private funders, such as The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Alliance Magazine.

4. Women’s funds

Sample Objective: Encourage them to continue their work at higher scale.

Examples of possible advocacy methods:

• Hold presentations at the women’s funds in your region and in countries that you hope to influence.
• Disseminate your research findings to all women’s funds that impact the region, priority issue or population you are focusing on.
• Consider doing joint efforts based on the results of the findings. For example, you could propose to collaborate with a fund to develop an endowment  that closes the funding gaps found in your research.

5. Private sector and new donors

Sample Objective: Increase their understanding of the field and encourage coherence between their philanthropic interests and business practice.

Examples of possible advocacy methods:

• Enlist ally organizations and influential individuals (some may already be your advisors for this research process) to do peer education.
• Arrange meetings with influential private actors to present your research findings.
• Host your own meeting, inviting private sector actors, to share the findings and to advocate for your position.

Make sure to adapt your presentations, propositions and applications to each targeted group.

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8. Finalize and format

Are you ready to start your own research?

We strongly recommend referring to our Ready to Go worksheet to assess your own advancement.

Estimated time:

• 1-2 years, depending on advocacy goals

People needed:

• 1 or more communications person(s)

Resources needed:       

• List of spaces to advertise research
• List of blogs and online magazines where you can publish articles about your research finding
• List of advisors
• Your WITM information products
• Sample of Advocacy Plan

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8. Finalize and format

Ready to Go? Worksheet

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Si tu grupo u organización recibe financiamiento, es posible que desees discutir con tus donantes desde ahora si pueden apoyar tu viaje y participación en el Foro. Muchas instituciones planifican sus presupuestos para el próximo año a principios de 2023, por lo que es mejor no retrasar esta conversación para el próximo año.

Primer:

Spot key groups and debunk their narratives

Are you a UN policy maker and want to know the main anti-rights groups and discourses to look out for? Or a feminist looking for quick counter-arguments? This 8-page primer provides key information at a glance.

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Definición

La economía solidaria (que incluye la economía cooperativa y la llamada economía del don) es un marco alternativo que adquiere formas diferentes según el contexto y está siempre abierto a los cambios.

Este marco de referencia se asienta sobre los siguientes principios:

• solidaridad, mutualismo (ayuda mutua), y cooperación
• equidad en todas las dimensiones
• bienestar social
• sostenibilidad
• democracia social y económica
• pluralismo

En una economía solidaria, quienes producen participan en procesos económicos que guardan íntima relación con sus realidades, con la preservación del medio ambiente y la cooperación mutua.

Contexto

Según la geógrafa feminista Yvonne Underhill-Sem, la economía del don es un sistema económico en el que los bienes y servicios circulan entre las personas sin que haya acuerdos explícitos acerca de su valor o de una reciprocidad esperada en el futuro.

Lo que hay detrás del otorgamiento de dones es una relación humana, una generación de buena voluntad y el acto de prestar atención a nutrir a toda la sociedad y no solo a lo que concierne a unx mismx y su familia: se trata del colectivo.

En el Pacífico, por ejemplo, esto se manifiesta en la recolección, preparación y procesamiento de recursos terrestres y marinos para tejer alfombras, abanicos, guirnaldas y objetos ceremoniales, así como en la cría de ganado y el almacenamiento de las cosechas estacionales.

Perspectiva feminista

Las mujeres tienen diversos incentivos para involucrarse en actividades económicas y que van desde satisfacer sus aspiraciones profesionales y ganar dinero para gozar de una vida confortable en el largo plazo hasta llegar a fin de mes, pagar deudas y huir del desgaste de una vida rutinaria.

Para acomodarse a los diferentes ambientes en los que operan las mujeres, el concepto de economía solidaria está en permanente desarrollo, discusión y debate.

Para leer más acerca de esta propuesta:

• Las organizaciones y redes reunidas en la Red Intercontinental de Promoción de la Economía Social Solidaria (RIPESS) formularon una serie de recomendaciones para la Agenda de Desarollo Post-2015 que resumen las principales demandas de una economía solidaria.
• El documento «Visión global de la economía social solidaria: convergencias y contrastes en los conceptos, definiciones y marcos conceptuales» publicado por RIPESS en 2015 forma parte del proceso de diálogo en el que ha estado involucrada la Red. Este documento que expresa su visión global fija los principales puntos a discutir e identifica áreas para continuar explorando.

Nous sommes en communication avec les rassemblements régionaux et thématiques ainsi que les rencontres entre bailleurs de fonds prévus pour 2023-2024, afin d'assurer le bon déroulement des conversations et des connexions. Si vous organisez un événement et souhaitez le mettre en relation avec le Forum de l'AWID, n'hésitez pas à prendre contact avec nous !

Radical Democracy and Climate Justice - the missing debate of COP30

As the world struggles with multiple intersecting crises, local communities and collectives of various kinds are resisting as also creating constructive alternatives.

📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
📍 Seminario Mar Nossa Sra Da Assunção, Pará, Brazil

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Informe:

Derechos en riesgo – Informe sobre tendencias 2017

El primer informe del Observatorio sobre la Universalidad de los Derechos funciona como un compendio de información sobre tendencias anti-derechos en espacios internacionales. Este informe permite conocer mejor a los principales actores anti-derechos religiosos, sus discursos y tácticas dentro de la ONU.

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