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Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW, The Netherlands)
Best Practice
Promoter Information:
Name: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
Email: info@globalfundforwomen.org
Website: https://www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs
Abstract:
The Netherlands has one of the world’s biggest funds for the promotion of equal rights for women and girls in all their diversity, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights. This fund supports women’s organisations, and could be used for activities in support of women’s political leadership, economic participation and empowerment, and tackling violence against women and girls. Funding Leadership Opportunities for Women was a grant instrument of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), providing funding opportunities to civil society organisations (CSOs). It ran from 2016–2020 and invested a total of Euro 93 million to support CSOs to contribute to sustainable improvement in women’s rights and opportunities. The core model of the programme was one in which direct partners or consortia provided funding and/or capacity-strengthening support to national and subnational level non- governmental organisations (NGOs) and CSOs to implement programmes in the three focus areas of combating violence against women (CVAW), participation by women in politics and public administration (PWPPA) and women’s economic participation and self-reliance (WEPSR). The ten programmes were led by international NGO (INGO) partners with two partners/consortia led by organisations based in the Global South. Two of the programmes were also firmly focused on "movement building" rather than on programme implementation as such. FLOW had a strong focus on advocacy as a core strategy to achieve both policy and legal change and structural transformation in institutions: this was undertaken by the INGO/consortia as well as their sub-grantee partners at local and national levels, sometimes in coordination and working across these local-national-global levels; and sometimes as individual organisations working mainly at the level of their organisational location.
Keywords:
advocacy, partnerships, women empowermen, women participation in political and economic areas
Dates:
Jan. 1, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2020
Source Specificity:
Initiative/Practice/Project/Programme/Case Studies
Website:
https://www.government.nl/topics/gender-equality/documents/reports/2022/02/03/final-evaluation-of-funding-leadership-opportunities-for-women-flow-2-2016-2020
Power Domains:
Economic
Methods Tools:
Awareness-raising, Self-regulation
Country:
NL
City:
None
Implementation Scale:
national
Language:
English
Other Links:
https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/initiatives/flow/
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