The 3 Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) from the Pacific we are featuring in this year's Online Tribute have worked in the media, campaigned for disability rights and advocated for women’s rights. Their contributions are missed and we honor them in this Tribute. Please join AWID in commemorating these WHRDs, their work and legacy by sharing the memes below with your colleagues, networks and friends and by using the hashtags #WHRDTribute.

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Este kit incluye ejemplos de mensajes para ser utilizados en Twitter, Facebook y LinkedIn, como así también imágenes que puedes usar para acompañar a estos mensajes.

La utilización de este kit es muy simple. Solo tienes que seguir estos pasos:

1. Elige tus mensajes favoritos:
   Twitter
   Facebook 
   LinkedIn

2. Descarga aquí tus imágenes favoritas:
   Twitter
   Facebook
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3. Combina los mensajes con las imágenes de la forma que desees.
4. Compártelos a través de tu cuenta personal y/o profesional de las redes sociales

Twitter

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Tweets utilizando tu nombre de usuarix (handle)

Tweets para utilizar con tu nombre de usuarix institucional

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Facebook 

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Le Groupe de travail des femmes sur le financement du développement   (Women's Working Group on Financing for Development – WWG on FfD) , une alliance composée d’organisations et de réseaux de défense des droits des femmes,  a été créée en octobre 2007 pour mener, dans le cadre des processus des Nations Unies sur le FdD, des activités de plaidoyer en faveur de l’égalité de genre, de l’autonomisation des femmes et des droits humains.

Troisième Dialogue de haut niveau sur le financement du développement, 23-25 octobre 2007

• Le troisième Dialogue de haut niveau sur le financement du développement a été l’occasion d’un regain de participation de la société civile. En plus des six tables rondes, des audiences ont été consacrées à la société civile et au secteur privé.
• Lors de la séance plénière, l’AWID a prononcé une déclaration au nom de la société civile  appelant les gouvernements à accorder une attention plus soutenue au rôle important en tant qu’agentes de développement que jouent les organisations de défense des droits des femmes et à la nécessité de favoriser la mise en œuvre de nouveaux mécanismes de financement destinés aux femmes dans les pays en développement et dans les pays les moins avancés. Cette déclaration exhortait les gouvernements à apporter un soutien plus important à l’architecture de genre des Nations Unies, de façon à ce que le système,  dans son ensemble,  puisse progresser dans son engagement en faveur de l’égalité des genres, de l’autonomisation des femmes et des droits humains, en ce qui concerne notamment  les droits économiques, sociaux, culturels et environnementaux de toutes les personnes.

El tiempo estimado para responder la encuesta es de 30 minutos.

After assessing your organization’s capacity and research goals, you may choose to conduct a survey as one of the methods of data collection for your research analysis.

In this section:

• Why conduct a survey?
• Identify your survey population
  1. Online survey
  2. Paper survey
• Create your questions
  1. Short and clear questions
  2. Simple and universal language
  3. "Closed" and "open" questions
  4. Logical organization
  5. Less than 20 mins
  6. Simple and exciting
• Test and translate
  1. Your advisors
  2. Draft and test
  3. Translation
• Target the right population
  1. Sample size
  2. Degree of participation
  3. Database and contact list

Why conduct a survey?

A survey is an excellent way to gather information on individual organizations to capture trends at a collective level.

For example, one organization’s budget size does not tell you much about a trend in women’s rights funding, but if you know the budgets of 1,000 women’s rights organizations or even 100, you can start to form a picture of the collective state of women’s rights funding.

As you develop your survey questions, keep in mind the research framing that you developed in the previous section.

Remember: Your framing helps you determine what information you are trying to procure through your survey. The data collected from this survey should allow you to accomplish your goals, answer your key questions, and create your final products.

See examples of survey questions in AWID’s Sample WITM Global Survey

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Identify your survey population

This is an important step – the clearer you are about which populations you want to survey, the more refined your questions will be. 

Depending on your research goals, you may want to create separate surveys for women’s rights organizations, women’s funds and donors. Or you may want to focus your survey on women’s groups and collect interviews for women’s funds and donors, as a survey for each population can be resource-intensive.

The questions you ask women’s groups may be different than ones you would ask women’s funds. If you plan on surveying more than one population, we encourage you to tailor your data collection to each population.

At the same time, some key questions for each population can and should overlap in order to draw comparative analysis from the answers.

Online survey

If you can reach your survey population online, it is useful and efficient to create an online survey.

We recommend two online tools, both which offer free versions:

• Survey Monkey
• Survey Gizmo

Survey Gizmo allows you to convert your data for SPSS, a statistical software useful for advanced data analysis

Your data analyst person(s) will be the best person(s) to determine which tool is best for your survey based on staff capacity and analysis plans.

For accessibility, consider making a PDF form version of your survey that you can attach via email. This ensures organizations that have sporadic internet connections or those that pay for it by the minute can download the survey and complete it without requiring a constant online connection.

Paper survey

You may decide that an online approach is not sufficiently accessible or inclusive enough for your popuation.

In this case, you will need to create a paper survey and methods to reach offline populations (through popular events or through post, with pre-stamped envelopes for returning).

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Create your questions

Make it easy for participants to complete your survey.

1. Short and clear questions

If the questions are confusing or require complex answers, you risk having participants leave the survey unfinished or providing answers that are unusable for your analysis.

Ensure your questions only ask for one item of information at a time.

For example:

• What is your organization’s budget this year?
  Easy to answer: participant can easily locate this information for their organization, and it is only asking for one item of information.
• What percentage of your budget have you identified as likely sources for funding for your organization, but are still unconfirmed? 
  Confusing and difficult to answer: are you asking for a list of unconfirmed funding sources or percentage of funding that is likely but unconfirmed?
  This information is difficult to obtain: the respondent will have to calculate percentages, which they may not have on hand. This increases the risk that they will not complete the survey.

2. Simple and universal language

Many words and acronyms that are familiar to you may be unknown to survey participants, such as “resource mobilization”, “WHRD”, and “M&E”, so be sure to choose more universal language to express your questions.

If you must use industry lingo – phrases and words common to your colleagues but not widely known – then providing a definition will make your survey questions easier to understand.

Be sure to spell out any acronyms you use. For example, if you use WHRD, spell it out as “Women’s Human Rights Defenders".

3. "Closed” and "Open" questions

Closed questions:

Only one response is possible (such as “yes,” “no” or a number). Survey participants cannot answer in their own words and they typically have to choose from predetermined categories that you created or enter in a specific number. Responses to closed questions are easier to measure collectively and are often quantitative.

Example of a closed question: What is your organization’s budget?

Open-ended questions:

These are qualitative questions that are often descriptive. Respondents answer these questions entirely in their own words. These are more suitable for interviews than surveys.

They are harder to analyze at a collective level as compared to closed-end questions, especially if your survey sample is large. However, by making open-ended questions very specific, you will make it easier to analyze the responses.

Whenever possible, design your survey questions so that participants must select from a list of options instead of offering open-ended questions. This will save a lot of data cleaning and analysis time.

Example of open-ended question: What specific challenges did you face in fundraising this year?

Familiarize yourself with different types of questions

There are several ways to ask closed-ended questions. Here are some examples you can review and determine what fits best for the type of data you want to collect:

• Multiple choice questions: the participant can select one or several options you pre-entered
• Rating scales: the participant gives a note on a scale you pre-determine.
  For this type of questions, make sure to clearly state what the bottom and the top of your scale mean
• Ranking: the participant will choose and organize a certain number of answers you pre-determine.

View more question types

4. Logical organization

If you plan to conduct this research at regular intervals (such as every two years), we recommend developing a baseline survey that you can repeat in order to track trends over time.

Set 1: Screening questions

Screening questions will determine the participant’s eligibility for the survey.

The online survey options we provided allow you to end the survey if respondents do not meet your eligibility criteria. Instead of completing the survey, they will be directed to a page that thanks them for their interest but explains that this survey is intended for a different type of respondent.

For example, you only want women’s rights groups in a given location to take this survey. The screening questions can determine the location of the participant and prevent respondents from other locations from continuing the survey.

Set 2: Standardized, basic demographic questions

These questions would collect data specific to the respondent, such as name and location of organization. These may overlap with your screening questions.

If resources permit, you can store these answers on a database and only ask these questions the first year an organization participates in your survey.

This way when the survey is repeated in future years, it is faster for organizations to complete the entire survey, increasing chances of completion.

Set 3: Standardized and mandatory funding questions

These questions will allow you to track income and funding sustainability. Conducted every year or every other year, this allows you to capture trends across time.

Set 4: Special issues questions

These questions account for current context. They can refer to a changing political or economic climate. They can be non-mandatory funding questions, such as attitudes towards fundraising.

For example, AWID’s 2011 WITM Global Survey asked questions on the new “women & girls” investment trend from the private sector.

5. Less than 20 mins

The shorter, the better: your survey shouldn’t exceed 20 minutes to ensure completion and respect respondents’ time.

It is natural to get excited and carried away by all the types of questions that could be asked and all the information that could be obtained. However, long surveys will lead to fatigue and abandonment from participants or loss of connection between participants and your organization.

Every additional question in your survey will add to your analytical burden once the survey is complete.

6. Simple and exciting

• Let participants know the estimated time to complete the survey before they begin
• Specify what information they will need to complete it so they have it on hand (for example, if you are asking for financial data, say it at the outset so they can prepare)
• Request information that organizations can easily access and provide – for example, requesting financial information from 20 years ago may be difficult (or impossible) for organizations to provide.
• Create an incentive to convince your survey population to complete the survey, such as a prize raffle. For example, AWID held a raffle draw for a round-trip flight to the AWID Forum as a prize for completing our 2011 WITM Global Survey.

General tips

• Ask for exact budgets instead of offering a range (in our experience, specific amounts are more useful in analysis).
• Specify currency! If necessary, ask everyone to convert their answers to the same currency or ask survey takers to clearly state the currency they are using in their financial answers.
• Ensure you collect enough demographic information on each organization to contextualize results and draw out nuanced trends.
  For example, if you are analyzing WITM for a particular country, it will be useful to know what region each organization is from or at what level (rural, urban, national, local) they work in order to capture important trends such as the availability of greater funding for urban groups or specific issues.

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Test and translate

1. Your advisors

Involving your partners from the start will allow you to build deeper relationships and ensure more inclusive, higher quality research.

They will provide feedback on your draft survey, pilot test the survey, and review your draft research analysis drawn from your survey results and other data collection.

These advisors will also publicize the survey to their audiences once it is ready for release. If you plan on having the survey in multiple languages, ensure you have partners who use those languages.

If you decide to do both survey and interviews for your data collection, your advisor-partners on your survey design can also double as interviewees for your interview data collection process.

2. Draft and test

After your survey draft is complete, test it with your partners before opening it up to your respondents. This will allow you to catch and adjust any technical glitches or confusing questions in the survey.

It will also give you a realistic idea of the time it takes to take the survey.

3. Translation

Once the survey is finalized and tested in your native language, it can be translated.

Be sure to test the translated versions of your survey as well. At least some of your pilot testers should be native speakers of the translated languages to ensure clarity.

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Target the right population

1. Sample size

Your survey sample size is the number of participants that complete your survey.

Your survey sample should reflect the qualities of the larger population you intend to analyze.

For example: you would like to analyze the millions of women’s rights groups in Valyria but you lack the time and resources to survey every single one.
Instead, you can survey only 500 of the Valyrian women’s rights groups – a sample size - to represent the qualities of all the women’s groups in the region.

Recommended sample size

• 100 survey participants or less tend to be unreliable
• 250 to 400 will yield results of reasonable accuracy
• over 400 are fully adequate and will also allow accurate analysis of subgroups (for example, age groups).

Although it is not necessary to determine your exact sample size before you launch your survey, having a size in mind will allow you to determine when you have reached enough participants or whether you should extend the dates that the survey is available, in case you feel that you have not reached enough people.

2. Degree of participation

Even more important than size of a sample is the degree to which all members of the target population are able to participate in a survey.

If large or important segments of the population are systematically excluded (whether due to language, accessibility, timing, database problems, internet access or another factor) it becomes impossible to accurately assess the statistical reliability of the survey data.

In our example: you need to ensure all women’s groups in Valyria had the opportunity to participate in the survey.

If a segment of women’s groups in Valyria do not use internet, and you only pull participants for your sample through online methods, then you are missing an important segment when you have your final sample, thus it is not representative of all women’s groups in Valyria.

You cannot accurately draw conclusions on your data if segments of the population are missing in your sample size; and ensuring a representative sample allows you to avoid this mistake.

3. Database and contact list

To gain an idea of what the makeup of women’s groups for your area of research (region, population, issue, etc) looks like, it may be useful to look at databases.

• Some countries may have databases of all registered nonprofits, which will allow you to know your full population.
• If databases are not available or useful, you can generate your own list of groups in your area of research. Start with networks and coalitions, ask them to refer you to additional groups not in the membership lists.

By understanding the overall makeup of women’s groups that you plan to target, you can have an idea of what you want your sample to look like - it should be like a mini-version of the larger population.

After participants have taken your survey, you can then gauge if the resulting population you reached (your sample size) matches the makeup of the larger population. If it doesn’t match, you may then decide to do outreach to segments you believe are missing or extend the window period that your survey is open.

Do not be paralyzed if you are unsure of how representative your sample size is – do your best to spread your survey as far and wide as possible.

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Nous demandons ces données pour faciliter l’examen des réponses, éviter les doublons et pouvoir vous contacter si votre groupe n’a pas pu terminer le questionnaire et/ou vous répondre si vous avez des doutes ou des questions. Des informations sur la manière dont nous utilisons les informations personnelles collectées lors de notre travail sont disponibles ici.

Ahora que has analizado toda la información que recogiste — de la encuesta, las entrevistas, la investigación secundaria y otras fuentes que hayas utilizado — ya puedes generar el producto final.

En esta sección:

• El producto final
  1. Escribe con claridad
  2. Consigue que tenga un aspecto atractivo
• Revisión y comentarios
  1. Pule los resultados
  2. Facilita los comentarios

El producto final

El producto final será un documento que resume, analiza y critica la información que obtuviste. Será lo que compartas con la audiencia cuando les presentes tu investigación y se la expliques.

En AWID por lo general elaboramos un informe escrito exhaustivo en el que analizamos cada conjunto de información y sintetizamos todos los resultados que encontramos, para luego generar productos más breves como infografías o resúmenes (que explicaremos en la sección siguiente, «Finalización y formato»).

1. Escribe con claridad

• Organiza la información según cómo te gustaría contar la historia. Puedes respetar el orden de la encuesta. O reagrupar algunas preguntas para que la conclusión surja de manera fluida y siga una progresión lógica.
• Adapta el lenguaje al público. Utiliza un lenguaje universal y evita las jergas o los términos demasiado técnicos.

La importancia de la edición

El trabajo de edición implica corregir el texto, garantizar que la redacción sea concisa, revisar que los datos proporcionados sean exactos, señalar las inconsistencias que se deben resolver, acomodar el texto para que fluya y posiblemente también sugerir títulos.

Lo ideal es que la persona que haga este trabajo entienda y conozca tu labor en cuanto a WITM pero que no haya participado directamente de la investigación, así puede aportar una perspectiva nueva.

2. Consigue que el producto tenga un aspecto atractivo

• Utiliza la información recogida para generar gráficos y tablas. Estas herramientas visuales constituyen una forma atractiva de subrayar los principales resultados de la investigación y validar los análisis.
• Busca imágenes relevantes que puedan ilustrar el informe.
• Destaca las principales cifras y/o los testimonios de impacto.

Recuerda: Cuanto más accesible sea el producto, más personas querrán leerlo (y compartirlo).

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Revisión y comentarios

Cuando llegues a este momento, ya habrás compilado toda la información, la habrás analizado y convertido en un producto final, que probablemente sea un informe extenso.

1. Pule los resultados

Antes de encarar los pasos siguientes deberías compartir el producto final con organizaciones, activistas y donantes que puedan comentarlo (lxs «consultorxs»).

Este es un momento excelente para pedirles que revisen lo siguiente:

• ¿Hay algo fundamental que esté ausente delanálisis del panorama actual del financiamiento y sus tendencias?
• ¿Hay algo fundamental que esté ausente de las conclusiones?
• ¿Hay alguna inexactitud en la información que necesite ser corregida?
• ¿Tienen alguna sugerencia general sobre cómo fortalecer el informe para que cumpla con las metas que habías mencionado en el marco de la investigación?

Una vez que hayas incorporado todos los comentarios de las personas a las que consultaste, asegúrate de que la persona a cargo de la edición vuelva a revisar el informe.

Con esto ya tendrás la versión final y completa del informe. Si quieres publicarlo en otros idiomas, ahora es el momento de enviarlo a traducir.

2. Facilita los comentarios

• Es probable que las personas a las que consultes estén ocupadas con su trabajo habitual. Asegúrate de darles un plazo razonable para que te hagan llegar sus comentarios.
• Pídeles comentarios breves y específicos, para que les resulte fácil responder. Si quieres, puedes simplemente copiar y pegar los puntos que mencionamos en la sección anterior.
• Si vas a publicar el informe en varios idiomas, asegúrate de contar con personas que también puedan revisar las versiones finales traducidas de el/los producto/s.

Las personas que revisen el informe (lxs «consultorxs») te estarán haciendo un aporte significativo. Considera la posibilidad de otorgarles alguna forma de reconocimiento.

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6. Realiza una investigación secundaria

Paso siguiente

8. Finalización y formato

Duración estimada

• 2 - 5 meses

Personas que se necesitan

• 1 persona (o más) de investigación
• 1 Editor (editor web o si crea un producto en línea)
• Traductores (si ofrece encuesta en varios idiomas)

Recursos necesarios

• Lista de organizaciones de asesores, activistas y financiadores.
• Documento de Síntesis (sección de "marco de su investigación")
• Los resultados de su(s) encuesta(s)
• Preguntas de la entrevista
• Resultados de las entrevistas
• Los datos de la investigación secundaria
• Todos otros datos utilizados en el informe

Paso previo

6. Realiza una investigación secundaria

Paso siguiente

8. Finalización y formato

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