Cuso International

Published purpose

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed women’s voice and leadership (WVL) program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding. It seeks to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster women’s rights alliances, as WROs and their networks are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The renewed WVL program provides enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes, but is not limited to, LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists. This project aims to support 5 local implementing partners and their 210 staff to advance their objectives and priorities, and empower them and their organizations to advance women’s, girls, LBTQI+ individual and collective rights in Peru. The project also aims to benefit 10,000 women and female youth, Indigenous women, LBTQI+ people, 600 community leaders, and local and regional authorities directly. Cuso International is implementing the project.