Issues Affecting Women Programme Grants (2005)

• Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo em Angola

  To identify 180 disempowered women in Angola and provide them with a year-long training programme, followed by micro-capital assistance to launch them in a small business venture. (Over three years)

• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc.

  To address discrimination in housing, employment, and other spheres against women who are survivors of domestic violence.

• Cambodian Women's Crisis Center

  To provide general support, including direct services, to women and their children who are survivors of gender-based abuse. (Over four years)

• Institute of International Education Inc.

  To support professional development/exchange projects between human rights NGOs in sending, receiving and in-transit countries. (Over three years)

• RAINBO

  To create a co-ordinated network of partners working towards ending female genital mutilation and circumcision in Sudan and Kenya. (Over two years)

• The SAGE Project, Inc.

  To create an international network of organisations to combat exploitation and trafficking, and to provide alternatives for women seeking to exit the sex industry.

• Tsotawi Tikat Tekelakaye Mehaber

  To establish a safe haven/drop-in centre in Addis Ababa for raped, battered, or sexually abused women and girls. (Over three years)

• Women in Dialogue (for Women Against Rape)

  To help Women Against Rape employ a full-time coordinator; to support a team of trained counsellors and advocates; and to provide in-depth services to women victims of rape and their families who are seeking asylum in the UK. (Over three years)

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Centre LAVI

  To support the Communication and Information Project in Geneva for women who have been victims of violence. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Equality Now

  To support the “Fund for Grassroots Activism to End FGM,” a re-granting project that assists local education and outreach efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation in Africa. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Fraueninformationszentrum

  To support the Makasi project which provides consultancy services for women in Switzerland who are victims of trafficking and helps them to fight against violations of their human rights through legal, social, economic and political means. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Global Fund for Women

  To support women's NGOs working to address issues of gender-based violence worldwide. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Kalayaan

  To provide assistance to migrant domestic workers in the UK who experience abuse at the hands of their employers. (Second year of two-year grant)

• KA-MER

  To coordinate the work of women’s information centres throughout South-Eastern Turkey to intervene in potential cases of violence against women and honour killings; to create social sensitivity about honour killings; to develop permanent methods and mechanisms to help the women continue their lives in safety, and to influence formal policies which address violence against women. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

  To combat domestic violence by partnering with Bulgarian advocates to train legal professionals in strategies that promote victim safety and offender accountability. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Until the Violence Stops

  To support a secondary-school-based, peer education programme in London focused on the issues of violence against women and children. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Urban Justice Center

  To continue support for its Sex Workers Project, an advocacy programme based in the U.S. focusing on harm reduction, protection of civil rights, and provision of legal services to trafficked immigrant women. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Women’s Trust

  To provide core support to improve the capacity of this UK-based organisation to respond to women who are victims of domestic violence. (Second year of three-year grant)

• University of Copenhagen

  To support three research projects: to conduct PhD research into, and build capacity for, HIV/AIDS prevention in Namibia and South Africa; to conduct academic research into the construction of masculinity and influence male sexual and reproductive health and behaviour in urban East Africa; and to conduct PhD research into the public health sector's response during the complex political emergency situation in Guinea-Bissau. (Third year of three-year grant)

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