| Reporting Organization: | Oxfam-Quebec |
|---|---|
| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ Unspecified |
| Timeframe: | March 20, 2019 - October 30, 2024 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: |
[email protected] |
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| Benin - $ 0 (83.36%) | |
| Economic Development & Empowerment (41.68 %) | |
| Gender Equality (41.68 %) | |
| Other (16.64 %) | |
This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. This project is implemented by Oxfam-Québec. Specifically, this project aims to strengthen the capacity of organizations that work to defend the rights of women and girls and to promote gender equality in their communities in Benin. The project focuses on three key aspects within beneficiary organizations: institutional and management capacity, quality of service delivery to women and girls, and the effectiveness of their joint actions in support of public policies that benefit women and girls.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
Unspecified
Return to topThe expected outcomes for this project include: (1) the integration of innovative approaches and the improvement of the management and sustainability of local women’s rights organizations in Benin; (2) improving the performance of programming and advocacy, as well as the delivery of quality programmes and services by women’s rights organizations to advance gender equality in Benin, including through innovative approaches; and (3) improving the effectiveness of national and subnational women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to change gender policies and contribute to their implementation in Benin.
Results achieved up to March 2021 include:
1) Launch of responsive funds to 10 women’s rights organizations in year two to address the impact of COVID-19 on women’s rights in Burkina Faso;
2) Funding for 14 women’s rights organizations, including six emerging and eight established organizations in the first quarter of year two in Benin following the implementation of a reactive fund;
3) The value of investments in support of women’s rights organizations and networks at the local level was $461,181 ($196,862 in Benin and $378,240 in Burkina Faso). Of this amount, $82,941 was allocated to the reactive funds and $378,240 to the multiyear funds;
4) In total, 25 women’s rights organizations (10 in Benin and 15 in Burkina Faso) are promoting women’s rights and gender equality and receiving support for programming and/or institutional strengthening;
5) 18 female directors from the selected women’s rights organizations received program support during the appropriation workshop and webinars held in Benin and 30 in Burkina Faso.
