Oxfam Quebec

Published purpose

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) program, launched in 2017 for a five-year period (2018 to 2023) and renewed in April 2023. It supports local and regional women’s organizations and networks working to promote women’s rights, women’s empowerment, and gender equality in developing countries. The renewed WVL program addresses a globally recognized gap in funding and support and provides assistance to women’s rights organizations (WROs) and women’s rights movements around the world. Implemented by Oxfam Québec, this project aims to promote the improvement of the rights of women and girls in all their diversity and advancing gender equality in Senegal. The project aims to directly benefit a total of 56 WROs and at least 20 women human rights defenders (WHRDs). Although the project has a national scope, the programmatic and advocacy actions of the supported WROs focus primarily, though not exclusively, on the following regions: Saint-Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kédougou, Diourbel, Thiès, Kaolack, Fatick, and Dakar. A preliminary estimate places the project’s reach at approximately 32,000 people, of whom 24,000 are women and girls. It targets structurally excluded groups, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), women with disabilities, women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, rural women, women affected by climate change, and those involved in natural resource exploitation.