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What is 10x10?THE CHALLENGEIn the US, 3 million people with serious mental health challenges die 25 years younger of treatable health conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, HIV and AIDS).

THE FINDINGSThe Medical Directors Council of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) reported in 2006 that persons with serious mental health challenges increased death and disease rates “are largely due to treatable medical conditions that are caused by modifiable risk factors”:

The Risk Factors

• No medical coverage

• Smoking

• Poverty

• Alcohol consumption

• Isolation

• Poor nutrition/obesity

• Distrust of the medical system

• Lack of exercise

• Unsafe sex

• IV drug use

• Lack of coordination between primary care and

mental health services

• Living in group homes or homeless shelters

• Side effects of psychiatric medications

(weight gain, diabetes, high cholesterol, insulin

resistance and metabolic syndrome)

• Polypharmacy-mixing prescription meds may

cause harmful consequences

Support the Whole PersonTHE PLEDGEAlameda County Behavioral Health Care Services (ACBHCS) took SAMHSA’s wellness pledge to envision a future in which people with mental and substance use disorders pursue optimal health, happiness, recovery, and a full and satisfying life in the community via access to a range of effective services, supports, and resources.

THE CAMPAIGNOn 10/10 of 2011, ACBHCS, along with community-based organizations officially launched the Alameda County 10x10 Wellness Campaign at the Alameda

County Board of Supervisors.

Two months later, the Board of Supervisors declared the month of December 2011 as the beginning of Alameda County’s:

10x10 Wellness CampaignTHE PLANIn 2011, ACBHCS set out to answer 3 essential questions:1) In what ways are Alameda County mental health

service providers addressing mental wellness from a holistic perspective, based on the 8 Dimensions of Wellness as defined by SAMSA (emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social/cultural and spiritual)?

2) How can the connection between primary care and mental health care be strengthened?

3) Which approaches to wellness are most effective in helping to extend life expectancy in individuals

suffering from serious mental illness?

The SolutionTAKE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO WELLNESS.

SUPPORT THE WHOLE PERSON.

PROVIDE OPTIONS AND CHOICES FOR RECOVERY.

EMOTIONS—Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships

SOUL—Expanding our sense of purpose and meaning in life

PURPOSE—Personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work

CONNECTION—Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system

HAVING ENOUGH—Satisfaction with current and future financial situations

OUR WORLD—Good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being

MIND—Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills

BODY—Recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods and sleep

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Over the next 10 years, increase life expectancy by 10 years.Over the next 10 years, Alameda County’s 10x10 campaign will promote services, activities and policies, incorporating the 8 Dimensions of Wellness, seeking to increase the life expectancy of mental health consumers by 10 years.

10x10 Consumer Choice Award 2012Keeping it well, keeping it live! Having good friends is the best thing in life!! I believe having good communication and loved ones creates harmony in the body and soul, leading to a healthy life and more joy in the world.

— Darren Linzie, winning artist

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EMOTIONS: Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships

OUR WORLD: Good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being

HAVING ENOUGH: Satisfaction with current and future financial situations

MIND: Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills

PURPOSE: Personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work

BODY: Recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods and sleep

CONNECTION: Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system

SPIRIT: Expanding our sense of purpose and meaning in life

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GFW is proud to have supported domes-tic worker groups who were instrumental to pushing for domestic worker’s rights at the International Labor Organization (ILO) 2010 Conference, including our grantee partner Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM Asia). Next up, GFW grantee partners and others will be pushing for the Convention for Decent Work to be adopted at the June 2011 ILO Conference. If they are successful, it will be the result of incredible organizing by this vibrant movement, considered by many the most exciting in the world.

2. WOMEN AND GIRLS GET A STRONG VOICE AT THE UNLast year, the UN finally responded to a longstanding demand from the wom-en’s movement: it created the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women. The supera-gency consolidates four existing UN offices for gender equality and wom-en’s rights into a single entity, with

Undersecretary General Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean president, at the helm.

The creation of UN Women was indeed the result of years of advocacy for reform within the UN by the Gender Equality Architecture Reform campaign (GEAR), which mobilized more than 300 groups to hold the General Assembly account-able to its promises for women’s equal-ity and empowerment. According to Charlotte Bunch, GFW Board Member and leader of GEAR, “Over the past 20 years, the Global Fund for Women has been a major funder for wom-en’s groups to monitor the UN and attend events like UN world confer-ences and the Commission on the Status of Women, which has been crucial to creating the ground work for UN Women.”

3. FIRST SUCCESSFUL USE OF CEDAW IN RAPE CASEIn the Philippines, women won a his-toric victory when they successfully used the Optional Protocol of CEDAW

(Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) in the first rape case ever to be decided under CEDAW. A UN committee ruled that the Philippines government violated the rights of Karen Vertido, a female rape survivor, when a local court dismissed her rape allega-tions due to “gender-based myths and stereotypes.” The Women’s Legal Bureau of the Philippines, a longtime GFW grantee partner, appealed to CEDAW, and in collaboration with several grantee partners across the Asia Pacific, secured this historic verdict for the survivor.

The Philippine Government must now implement the recommendations made by CEDAW, including ensuring imme-diate measures in rape cases and impar-tial and fair legal procedures. CEDAW also urged the government to review its definition of rape and to train its judges, lawyers, law enforcement officers and medical personnel in a gender-sensitive manner to understand crimes of rape and other sexual offenses.

4. HUMAN RIGHTS COURT RULES AGAINST IRELAND’S BAN ON ABORTION In another groundbreaking decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled that abor-tion, in certain cases, should be legalized in Ireland and that its ban violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases. This legal victory was due to the persistence of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), a GFW grantee, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of three women who argued that Ireland’s restric-tive abortion laws threatened their health and wellbeing because it forced them to travel abroad for abortion. IFPA’s suc-cessful strategy argued that reproductive rights are human rights.

GFW grants helped IFPA research and bring the case before the ECHR, as well as leverage other funding for costly litigation. This case also set precedence for women in other countries to chal-lenge discriminatory laws through the ECHR, which makes legally binding decisions on human rights issues in the 47-member Council of Europe.

6. NATIONALITY LAWS SWEEP MIDDLE EASTWomen’s quest for equality took a giant leap forward with the passage of nationality laws in Libya, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen and first steps in Lebanon. Nationality laws grant women equal treatment under the law and ensure that even if they marry a man of a different nationality, their children will not be denied citizenship in their own country. This legal guarantee is also critical to ensuring women and children have access to basic resources, like educa-tion, health care and employment.

Since 2001, GFW grantees have engaged in research, advocacy, media reform, and protests to support women’s full citizen-ship across nine countries – Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. These victories were the outcome of the “Arab Women’s Right to Nationality” regional campaign led by our grantee partners with regional coordination by the Collective for Research and Training on Development in Action (CRTD-A) in Lebanon. With democratic uprisings sweeping the Middle East, the strug-gle towards equal citizenship continues and grows.

7. NIGERIAN WOMEN DEFEAT NUDITY BILLAmid a rising tide of religious funda-mentalism and cultural conservatism, Nigerian women’s groups succeeded last year in defeating the so-called Nudity Bill, introduced in 2008, which would have imposed state control over girl’s and women’s bodies.

Had the bill passed, women over age 14 would be punished for exposing too much of their necklines or any parts of their belly, waist, or thighs. Fines for violations ranged from $65 to $325 or up to six-months in prison. The bill also would have lowered the age of marriage consent from 18 to 14 years.

A network of women’s organizations, including grantee partners Alliances for Africa, CIRDDOC, and the Nigerian Feminist Forum, spearheaded the cam-paign that eventually quashed the Bill in 2010. Over 500 women activists attended the packed public hearing that eventually quashed the bill; their energy has motivated similar efforts to defeat repressive bills in other African countries.

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DOMESTIC WORKERS TO WIN WORKERS’ RIGHTSDespite restrictive working conditions and limited infrastructure, domestic workers worldwide organized, advocated for, and won a victory that could ultimately guarantee basic labor protections to millions of women employed in other people’s homes.

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For three days in October, 220 women from 41 countries gathered in Bukavu, in eastern Congo to peacefully march in solidarity with 20,000 Congolese women and men against war and gender violence. Women proudly proclaimed, “we are all survivors, we’re still here, and we’re marching together for the women of the Congo,” and in doing so brought global attention to the mass rapes committed by multiple armies and militias.

The gathering was organized by GFW grantee partner World March of Women in cooperation with local Congolese groups working to end violence against women. We supported several grantees’ participation in the march, which called for an end to government impunity from sexual violence. Their work is paying off: in February, a Congolese army colonel was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering his troops to rape dozens of defenseless civilians in the village of Fizi on New Years Day.

MASS MARCH FOR WOMEN AND PEACE IN CONGO5

By Angelika Arutyunova, ECIS Program Team; Muadi Mukenge, Sub-Saharan Africa Program Team; and Anasuya Sengupta, Asia/Oceania Program Team

In March, the three of us traveled to New York for the 15th anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women and the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The forum offered an opportunity to hear how the historic Beijing summit has resulted in actual, lived change for women worldwide.

Despite the economic recession and major cutbacks in donor funding, we were pleasantly surprised at the unprecedented number of women at the CSW this year—nearly 8,000 women from over 100 countries.

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On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Global Fund for Women (GFW) looks back over the past year and celebrates some of the extraordinary victories won by women’s movements around the world. From progressive new national and international legislation to mass mobilizations for peace, we celebrate the hard work of our grantee partners. These 10 victories remind us that despite enormous odds, women are paving the way to a more just and equal world.

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ARGENTINA LEGALIZES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, FIRST FOR LATIN AMERICA

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Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. Article 2 of the Argentinean Civil Code now describes matrimony as a union between a “couple” versus between “man and woman.” Under the new legislation, same-sex couples have the same social rights as heterosexual couples, including parental rights to adopt, the right to their partner’s inheritance and pensions, among others. To date, some 1,000 lesbian and gay couples have been married.

We have been proud to support the tireless efforts of lesbian rights groups in Argentina to achieve equality over the past two decades. Several GFW grantee partners, including Lesbianas a la Vista, Desalambrando, and Colectiva Feminista la Revuelta, used multiple strategies to win this legal victory, including increasing the public’s acceptance of LGBTQI equality. Inspired by Argentina, in Peru same-sex marriage is now a topic in the 2011 presidential debates.

9. MATERNAL DEATHS DROP BY 34 PERCENTIn 2010, major studies by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank revealed that the number of women dying annually during pregnancy or childbirth has dropped by more than one-third over the last 30 years. The Global Fund for Women is proud to have played a role in the global movement to save mothers’ lives. Since 1987, GFW has provided over $17.6 million in grants to 950 women-led organizations in 121 countries to improve women’s access to maternal and reproductive health care.

In Bangladesh, where only 18 percent of births are attended by a skilled medical professional, grantee partner is Narigrantha Prabartana training traditional birth attendants and has formed a network of midwives who collectively purchase and distribute portable technology and medical equipment. In rural Nigeria, Gender Development Organization (GDO) helps women suffering from fistulae developed during complications in childbirth by transporting them to hospitals, paying for their treatment and surgery, and helping them reintegrate into their families after they have healed.

10. REVOLUTION BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE: TUNISIA, EGYPT AND BEYOND The year leading up to the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day closed with revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt where women played a central role. In Tunisia, groups supported by GFW, including the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, were at the forefront of the uprisings. After the ouster of Ben Ali, women’s groups demanded that a women’s rights agenda and human rights law serve as the foundation for the new democracy. In Egypt, our grantees were in Tahrir Square for weeks running makeshift clinics, transporting medical supplies, giving legal aid and documenting abuses.

The revolutions not only opened opportunities for women to engage politically, they sparked the beginning of a transformation in gender relations. Men and women, across class and religions, worked and slept on the sidewalks side by side. And as men and women demanded respect and freedom from their government, they began treating each other with more dignity and viewing the well being of their countries and its peoples as everyone’s responsibility.

These revolutions have now similarly awakened people in Bahrain, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. The world is witnessing ordinary people’s desire for democracy and dignity, and realizing that their direct action can actually lead to real political and social change.

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“My message to the women of Egypt is take to the streets and don’t be afraid,” says Samira. And they did just that. On December 20, approximately 10,000 women marched to condemn military violence and demonstrate their power and will to keep fighting.

8. BREAKING THE SILENCE ON RAPE IN PAKISTANIn Pakistan, where rape cases are largely unreported and sensationalized by the media, a courageous survivor of rape, Mukhtaran Mai, and a women’s rights organization are sparking a national debate on how media and society talk about rape.

In April 2011, the Supreme Court acquitted five of six men charged in the 2002 case of a village council-sanctioned gang rape of Mukhtaran, who has inspired Pakistani women by pursuing justice and refusing to remain silent.

Around the time of the ruling, the Uks Research, Resource, and Publication Center on Women and Media in Pakistan released a ground-breaking and widely circulated report entitled, Covering Crime: How Pakistani Media Reports on Rape Cases.

Uks Director, Tasneem Ahmar, appeared on the nation’s most watched political talk show, Witness with Quatrina, to discuss the media’s role in shaping attitudes towards sexual violence. The popular anchorwoman Quatrina Hossain agreed, saying, “Women’s issues are not women’s issues only; they are men’s as well... Rape is a crime of violence, power and abuse... We will talk bluntly and openly.”

9. WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRAL TO PEACEThe Nobel Committee awarded their 2011 Peace Prize to two Liberian women—peace activist Leymah Gbowee and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—and Yemeni pro-democracy activist, Tawakkul Karman.

At great risk to their lives, Leymah and Women Peace and Security Network Africa mobilized Liberian women across ethnic and religious lines to end the long war in Liberia. “It would have been impossible for us to achieve what we achieved in Liberia had it not been for the fact that we had support both financially and morally from our sisters at Global Fund for Women,” said Leymah.

Women Journalists Without Chains, which Tawakkul helped establish, trains female journalists to agitate for press freedoms. Their weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners played a central role in Yemen’s democratic uprisings.

In its 110-year history, most recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have been men. The 2011 prize is a welcome change and confirms what Global Fund for Women has known for decades: women’s leadership and human rights are vital to realizing peace.

10. EUROPEAN WOMEN WIN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TREATYLast May, the 47-member Council of Europe adopted the groundbreaking Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. It is the region’s first legally binding treaty on domestic violence and the world’s most comprehensive legal document on violence against women. It needs ratification by 10 member states to come into force.

The Convention criminalizes multiple forms of violence and outlines concrete measures governments must undertake in times of peace and conflict to prevent violence, protect and support survivors, and prosecute perpetrators.

Governments must address gaps in national domestic violence legislation, monitor police conduct, and establish shelters, national helplines and counseling services. And to ensure compliance, an international body of experts will monitor each country’s implementation.

European women’s rights organizations, such as Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE-Network), provided substantial expertise on the treaty and lobbied for its passage. The Convention provides a major boost to women’s groups in their work to hold governments accountable to end violence against women.

As millions rose up demanding justice last year, women were on the frontlines and behind the headlines pushing to advance human rights. Global Fund for Women celebrates International Women’s Day with ten victories won by our grantee partners in 2011. From securing bodily rights to delivering justice to rape survivors, women are ushering in peace and justice for all.

CLIENT: GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMENREPORT DESIGNS (FRONT AND BACK, INTERIOR SAMPLES)

“BELIEVE THAT CHANGE IS POSSIBLE. SEE THE BARREN PATCH OF GROUND AND BE AWARE THAT A GARDEN CAN GROW THERE.”

–ANNE FIRTH MURRAY,

GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN

FOUNDING PRESIDENT

GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMENGrowing Strong

FALL 2012

Global Fund for Women has created a strong base of women’s organizations around the world, with roots reaching deep into communities, anchoring the tree of the women’s movement. This strong foundation allows our grantees to grow, reach, and create exponential impact. With your critical support, women and girls, like the branches on this great tree, continue to grow in their work. Even in the face of adversity, women lead with strength and perseverance.

We are so excited to share this report of our work from the past year. With the help of donors like you, Global Fund has made concrete strides in securing equal rights for women and girls. Thank you. Join us again this year: invest in women and give them the resources to lead.

“WE’VE ACHIEVED SO MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE THERE”– Celine Nkiru Okoro, Nigerian grantee since 2008

DOLLAR AMOUNT OF GRANTMAKING BY TYPE:

11% INNOVATION: to new groups, initiatives, or strategies

61% STRENGTHENING: for organizational growth and development

28% IMPACT: larger, multi-year support to groups with proven impact

IN TOTAL GRANTMAKING THIS YEAR

$7,775,761

68 GRANTSGRANTS TO CONNECT WOMEN TO SHARE SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES AND BUILD COALITIONS

OVER 38,000 SIGNATURES

TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN BURMA AND 47 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE

2 ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS

OF GRANTS INVESTED IN WOMEN ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

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21%ASIA AND OCEANIA

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491 GRANTS106 COUNTRIESINCLUDING TWO NEW COUNTRIES: LIBYA AND SOUTH SUDAN

TO SUPPORT WOMEN LIVING WITH AND AT-RISK FOR HIV/AIDS

117 GRANTS

NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ALLOWED WOMEN AND

GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD TO SET THE AGENDA, DEMAND EQUAL PARTICIPATION, AND TAKE FLIGHT.

THANK YOU.

As a Global Fund donor, you already know that investing in women’s leadership is an effective way to achieve lasting social

change. Still, most women’s rights organizations lack the money to maximize their efforts and effectiveness. This past year,

we had to decline more than $9.4 million in requests from groups that met our grantmaking criteria. Without this funding,

women leaders are missing opportunities to drive change in the lives of women and girls.

PLEASE SAY “YES” TO ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS WE WILL RECEIVE.

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SAY YES. STEP UP.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Global Fund is changing women’s lives at the local, national, and international level. In order to deliver deep and lasting

impact for women and girls, we focus on:

SMART GRANTMAKING: We rely on a rigorous due diligence,

monitoring, and evaluation process

honed over almost 25 years. We invest

in groups that are highly networked

in their communities and with broad,

social movements. We award flexible,

unrestricted support that allows

grantees to create tailored solutions

based on their unique knowledge of

their community’s need.

EXTENSIVE NETWORK: Our grantmaking is informed by our

international network of over 2,000+

advisors around the world, a board

that includes women from 10 different

countries, and a 50-person staff who

speak more than 24 languages. We

benefit from knowledge-sharing across

4,500+ grantees and support from over

20,000 individuals and institutions.

FUNDRAISING FOR MOVEMENTS: Our end-goal is to increase financial

resources available to the global

women’s rights movement, which

means using our position as a respected

leader to raise as much money for

women as we can. In addition to

our lifetime grantmaking, we have

leveraged an additional $5.7 million for

grantees by acting as a fiscal sponsor

and connecting grantees to donors.

WOMEN LEADING THE FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

“IT’S TIME TO SHIFT THE EARTH ON ITS AXIS AND PUT WOMEN, THEIR RIGHTS

AND CHOICES, FRONT AND CENTER”– Musimbi Kanyoro, Global Fund CEO

Challenges to women’s bodily rights this year threatened to

undo the progress women fought so hard to achieve, but

it also added fire to a global conversation that was already

heating up: women’s right to quality health care.

When women don’t have the power to negotiate safe sex and

plan their families, they must have access to safe abortion

options. Uruguay is currently on the cusp of legalizing

abortion as a result of decades of tireless advocacy by two

longtime grantee partners: Mujer Ahora and Mujer y Salud

Uruguay. The Mexican Pro-Choice Alliance, which includes

several grantee partners, conducted over 2,800 trainings in

one year that resulted in an estimated 8,268 women receiving

comprehensive abortion care by trained professionals.

Our grantees in Poland were instrumental in mobilizing

opposition to a bill that would have banned abortion.

Meanwhile, groups in Russia are running powerful media

campaigns and working with politicians to defend women’s

rights to reproductive choice.

We also participated in important global discussions like

the London Summit on Family Planning, voicing the truth:

family planning saves lives and contraception should be

accessible for all women. One series of studies2 shows that

family planning can significantly reduce carbon emissions.

So, when the Rio+20 environmental summit refused to

include discussions about reproductive health, our CEO

was a strong voice at the summit, championing the needs of

women.

WE INVESTED $1.5 MILLION GLOBALLY IN 94 GROUPS ADVANCING WOMEN’S HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.

2 Series of papers published by the National Center for Atmospheric Research on population and health. Summary of findings

covered by Nina Lakhani, “Better Contraception Could Save 100,000 Lives,” The Independent, July 10, 2012.

Regional Public Organization “Mother and Child” runs a hospital that provides free, life-saving reproductive health services

to women in Dagestan, an extremely conservative mountainous region in Russia where women face extreme discrimination

in daily life, including high risk of violence and dismal health services. The group sends “mountain brigades” of doctors,

psychologists, and lawyers to deliver vital services to these women.

CLIENT: GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMENIMPACT REPORT AND BROCHURE DESIGNS

WHO WE AREWe advance the rights of women and girls by investing in women-led organizations worldwide because our 25 years of experience tells us that they are the most effective forces for social change.

OUR IMPACT

HOW WE WORK We raise money from individuals, foundations, and governments, and efficiently deliver and monitor those resources.

We give general support grants to women-led organizations in over 150 countries. These grants let organizations allocate money where it is needed most, allowing them to be more agile and seize opportunities that support lasting social change.

Our international network of advisors and partners are our eyes and ears on the ground. Global Fund board members and staff have years of respected experience in the women’s movement.

We convene women’s organizations so they share skills and build relationships that bring more resources to women’s rights.

We advocate for issues impacting women and girls, and lift the voices and solutions of our partners.

Women between the ages of 15 and 45 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Our partners pressure governments to pass and implement laws that prevent and stop violence against women. Our partners made domestic violence a punishable crime in nine countries and counting, including Bulgaria, Indonesia, and Nicaragua.

Pregnancy is the number one killer of teenage girls. Our partners empower girls by teaching reproductive and sexual health. They also provide access to quality health services. 88 percent of the girls surveyed felt that their hopes and goals for the future had positively expanded as a result of their involvement with our partners.

Since 1989, the Global Fund has invested $10 million in the Middle East. This vital core support to women’s groups prepared them to lead during the revolutions because they had developed strong networks and could mobilize quickly.

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Women produce 80 percent of food in Africa; yet make up 60 percent of the hungry. To flip the scale, our partners teach women sustainable farming, business management, and how to keep their land. Women not only report an increase in household income because of their involvement with our partners, but government officials are calling on them to help shape national food policies.

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SNAPSHOT OF OUR GRANTMAKINGIn total, the Global Fund has awarded $9.7 Million through 762 grants to 384 women-led organizations working to advance women’s rights and well-being in 14 countries in the MENA region. We also leveraged an additional $412,679 in fiscal sponsorship support to longtime grantee partners.

MOROCCO 31 grantees

ALGERIA 10 grantees

TUNISIA 6 grantees

TURKEY 37 grantees

PALESTINE 57 grantees

BAHRAIN 3 grantees

YEMEN 11 grantees

CYPRUS 6 grantees

LEBANON 26 grantees

ISRAEL 62 grantees

JORDAN 15 grantees

EGYPT 44 grantees

MAURITANIA 35 grantees

IRAQ 36 grantees

20111st MENA book,

“Telling Our Stories”

by Advisors, Staff

and Board

1st MENA

regional director

hired

2004• GFW Board

votes to create

MENA regional

program

•1st MENA

directory of

women’s rights

organizations

produced

2009• GFW & AWID

workshop in Morocco

on mobilizing

resources for MENA

women

•1st ever GFW trip to

Mauritania

2008• 1st Board

outreach trip to 7

MENA countries &

meeting in Egypt

• GFW prioritizes

“Women Living

Under Occupation,

Conflict, & War”

2005GFW Board

votes to extend

Initiative

2007 20101st MENA

Advisory Council

strategy convening

in Amman, Jordan

2003MENA Initiative

launched

1. “SPRING OF EQUALITY”, MOROCCO

On March 8th 2000, some 200 women’s groups led the “Spring of Equality,” a mass campaign where hundreds of thousands of women marched on Rabat, Morocco’s capital. They demanded reform of the Family Code, the Moudawana, which made women subjects of their fathers or husbands and denied them equal inheritance rights. It also sanctioned polygamy and granted divorce only to men. King Mohammed VI ultimately yielded to the feminists’ demands. By 2003, several Global Fund grantees participated in the Royal Advisory Board to transform the Moudawana into legislation guaranteeing women equality. Today, women have 40 seats in Morocco’s Parliament and 16 Family Court judgeships.

2. “ARAB REVOLUTIONS”

In early 2011, grantee partners in Tunisia and Egypt were at the forefront of democratic uprisings in their countries. After the ouster of President Ben Ali, Tunisian women’s groups secured women’s equality in the new Tunis Declaration and legal reforms to prohibit gender discrimination. In Egypt, after millions occupied Tahrir Square and other public sites to overthrow President Mubarak, women’s groups traveled the country to gather input from women to ensure that the new constitution enshrines gender equality. The impossible was made possible by years of organizing and trust building across civil society by our grantee partners like Nadim Center, Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, New Woman Foundation, and Nazra for Feminist Studies, among others.

3. WOMEN WIN NATIONALITY LAWS

In 2010 and 2011, after a decade of research advocacy, media reform and protests, women’s rights groups secured the passage of gender-conscious nationality laws in Libya, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, and Egypt. These laws mean women can now pass their citizenship on to their children. Legal guarantees are essential for women and children to access education, health care and employment. These victories were the outcome of the “Arab Women’s Right to Nationality” regional campaign led by Global Fund grantee partners with regional coordination by the Collective for Research and Training on Development in Action (CRTD-A) in Lebanon.

SUCCESS STORIES

“Because of the GFW & AWID resource mobilization conference in Marrakech, we are now welcomed into many women’s groups who had previously refused to work with lesbian women. The history of the Mena lesbian rights movement will come to be known as before and after Marrakech”

—GFW ADVISOR, NADINE MOAWAD, MEEM

Since 1989 the Global Fund for Women has provided nearly $10 million in vital core support to 384 women-led groups in 14 countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Individually and collectively, these groups are working to achieve gender equity, genuine human security and greater opportunities for girls and women. By cultivating women’s leadership and building a formidable movement, they are changing the region.

BIRTH OF THE MENA INITIATIVE

In 2003, just months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Global Fund for Women Board made a bold decision to launch the Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa. Anticipating the additional hardship facing women under war, we decided to direct systematic support to women’s groups dealing with increased destabilization. Despite their best efforts to rebuild their communities, women’s groups had little to no financial support. The vast majority of funds for “reconstruction” in war-torn countries like Iraq or Palestine went either to governments or large, bureaucratic NGOs; rarely reaching smaller, local organizations capable of responding to immediate community needs. Inspired by this vision, a handful of donors launched the MENA Field of Interest Fund and raised $460,000 to support women’s rights organizations in the region.

In just seven years of our initiative, our grantmaking to the MENA region grew by 400%, accounting for 80% of the Global Fund’s total giving to the region historically. We also significantly

expanded our network by adding 12 new regional advisors and diversified our grantees to include groups from rural areas, marginalized communities, and to countries and regions with nascent women’s rights organizing.

Global Fund grants provide direct, core support to grassroots organizations and national and regional networks. This flexible support helps women’s groups meet immediate needs and respond quickly to changing environments, such as mobilizing for democratic reforms recently witnessed throughout the Arab world. Our strategic support has brought leading feminists together and helped to open spaces for dialogue in a region that has been historically closed to taboo or sensitive issues, such as sexuality rights.

HOW WE’RE BUILDING A MOVEMENTA hallmark of our grantmaking is to chart new territory and fund where others fear to tread. We’re able to do this because of our impressive network of MENA advisors who help us assess trends and give on-the-ground analysis. We have prioritized grants to LBTQI women, women with disabilities, girls and adolescents, rural women and others who are too often left out of mainstream funding channels. Over 90% of Global Fund grants have supported initiatives that specifically include marginalized populations.

RURAL WOMENIn 2008, the Global Fund convened two meetings in Mauritania for existing and prospective grantees, which were instrumental in seeding small women’s groups in rural areas. In addition to bridging

rural/urban divides, these meetings brought together women from the four major ethnic/linguistic groups. We awarded more grants to Mauritania between 2008-2011 than the prior 14 years combined. This helped grantees secure critical victories, including changes to the Mauritanian personal status code. Although over 63% of adult women are illiterate and nearly half of the country lives in poverty, women’s groups have launched small rural cooperative businesses, increased women’s voting by 30%, and addressed controversial human rights issues, including slavery, sexual violence and discrimination against widows.

BUILDING MOVEMENTS ACROSS BOUNDARIESThe Global Fund is building stronger movements by creating connections between diverse networks and supporting feminist research and analysis. At the 2008 Resource Mobilization Conference in Morocco and the 2009 Arab Feminisms Conference in Lebanon, the Global Fund intentionally supported the participation of women’s groups facing multiple forms of oppression; this created a safe networking space to help shatter old stereotypes.

As a regional priority, the Global Fund strengthens ties between LBTQI and women’s rights movements. For example, in 1995 in Turkey, we awarded the first grant to a lesbian group; by

2011, we funded the first ever conference for sex worker and trans-peoples’ rights organizedby Pembe Hayat (Pink Life). Sex workers received safety training and sexual health information and networked with human rights defenders.

Supporting young feminist leadership is also another major focus of our grantmaking. In May 2010, we gave a seed grant to the Young Arab Feminist Network in Cairo, Egypt to support feminist youth building alliances and breaking the isolation often felt by young people concerned about the political future of their countries.

DURING OCCUPATION AND WAR

In areas facing violent conflict or military occupation, the Global Fund supports refugee women’s groups and community-led programs that save lives and meet the urgent needs arising from war. These women endure incredibly difficult circumstances, including death or disability in the family, increased domestic violence, and trafficking resulting from deepening poverty. Global Fund grantee Zakher runs a cooperative commercial kitchen in Gaza where over 25 women heads of households come together to prepare and sell foods locally, earning income to sustain their families. In Israel, New Profile works to challenge Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the militarization of their society, especially the militaristic socialization and education of their children. The Baghdad Women’s Association operates a “listening center” to provide trauma counseling to women and families and programs to prevent, monitor and report incidences of gender-based violence.

“The Global Fund for Women closes the knowledge gap on the long history of MENA women’s rights

activism and ensures MENA women can influence key decisions that affect them.”

—GLOBAL FUND BOARD CHAIR LEILA HESSINI

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