Deadline: 17th March 2024

Mama Cash invites applicants who are not currently beneficiary-partners of the Resilience Fund to submit their Letters of Interest. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

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Because self-led feminist groups demand the freedom to act according to their own views and strategies.

• Across the globe, courageous feminist activists are working together to build collective power, demand justice, and create, sustain, and revitalize ways of life that are just and equitable. The Resilience Fund – the largest grant program – aims to provide resources, support, and connect collective activism. women , girls and transgender and intersex people around the world.

Lasting change comes from the collective activism of those who are structurally excluded, marginalized, exploited, and stigmatized.

• The Resilience Fund supports feminist groups, collectives, and initiatives that are founded, led, and/or managed by people who belong to the communities whose rights they seek to promote. They are working to advance their own political and social agendas, to build connections across issues and borders, and to strengthen feminist and other social justice movements.

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• Unlimited funding and long-term support are crucial to enabling groups to organize and effectively seize or respond to important opportunities and changes in their contexts. That's why the Resilience Fund provides basic, flexible, and long-term support grants. The first annual grants are awarded with the intention of renewing them for several years, and Mama Cash typically supports partners for up to ten years.

Powerful movements that address rarely discussed or contested issues often start small.

• The Resilience Fund prioritizes smaller, emerging groups that do extremely important work but have limited access to funding. In addition to funding formally registered organizations, they are open to funding informal or unregistered activist groups, as well as networks or coalitions. The average grant under the Resilience Fund is €35,000.

Monitoring ensures that beneficiary partners are equipped to fulfill their missions.

• Mama Cash also offers mentoring to all beneficiary partners of the Resilience Fund. Mentoring may include financial and non-financial resources. Beneficiary partners can use these resources to obtain, improve, retain, build, and enhance their skills, knowledge, and networks. The mentoring support they provide is tailored to the specific organizational needs and plans identified by the recipient partner.

Information on financing

• Amount of the subsidy
  • €5,000 – €50,000 per year, average grant amount €35,000

Election criteria

• Working from a feminist perspective, focusing on women's rights, girls' rights, trans rights, and/or intersex rights.
• Self-led by women, girls, transgender and/or intersex people who serve
• Promotion of human rights of women, girls, transgender and/or intersex people as the main mission
• To drive structural and fundamental changes.
• Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested.
• Mama Cash prioritizes groups or initiatives with an annual budget of less than €200,000. Mama Cash does not prioritize providing financial support to larger groups, and very few of its beneficiary partners have annual budgets exceeding €200,000.
• Funds for women are eligible to apply for long-term core funding under the Resilience Fund.

Ineligible

• Mama Cash does not fund the following types of groups, initiatives, or activities:
  • Groups whose mission and/or main focus is not the promotion of the human rights of women, girls, transgender or intersex people;
  • Groups whose work focuses primarily on improving the lives of women, girls, transgender and/or intersex people, without addressing the conditions that give rise to the injustices they face;
  • Groups that actively seek to deny the rights of certain women, girls, and transgender or intersex people, based on who they are, the work they do, or their position in society;
  • Groups whose main objective is work. development humanitarian assistance or the provision of services, such as:
    • Income-generating activities and credit programs
    • (In)formal education, literacy programs, and training in traditional skills.
    • Provision of social, legal or health services.
  • Groups led by cisgender men;
  • Groups based in the Global North that implement programs or lead partnerships with groups based in the Global South and Global East;
  • Groups that are led by, or structurally or economically dependent on, political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions;
  • Business .

For more information, visit Mama Cash .