Equality Fund

Published purpose

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), and LBTQI+ groups, and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality globally. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding, strengthens institutional capacity, and bolsters feminist movements, as WROs and feminist movements are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and feminist movements worldwide. It includes enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) 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 continues to promote movement strengthening for broader collective action and integrates collective care and well-being to counter the stress, trauma and burn-out experienced by all the groups, who are on the front lines of these crises. The project supports at least 15 previously benefiting feminist WROs as well new WROs with multi-year grants and the responsive grants support LBTQI+ groups and women and girls with disabilities. The project is implemented in 8 countries in the Caribbean by the Equality Fund.