Global Fund for Women

2025 YEAR IN GENDER JUSTICE

Anja Tranovich — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:22:48 +0000

In 2025, feminist organizations stood at a crossroads of crisis and resistance across the globe. Regressive policies and devastating funding cuts threatened to unravel decades of progress, leaving vital grassroots organizations on the brink, or worse, shuttered. But from the streets of El Fasher, Sudan, to the Parliament halls in Rabat, Morocco, our partners are not just holding the line…

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COP30: The Future is Fertile, If We Fund It. Reproductive Justice in a Collapsing Climate

Anja Tranovich — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:56:25 +0000

The climate crisis is altering the most intimate and essential aspect of human life: our choice and ability to give birth safely. Across Africa and globally, pregnant people are navigating food insecurity, toxic air and water, droughts, displacement, and failing health systems, all made worse by climate change. These cascading crises are changing what it means to be pregnant, to give birth…

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Investing in Transformation: 5 Lessons in Resourcing Young Feminists

Rous Condori Arango — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:55:30 +0000

Published October 15, 2025 Latest Across the globe, wherever there are movements for gender justice, girls and gender- expansive young people are leading the way. They are creating climate-just futures, working to end period poverty, and fighting for education for everyone. And they are winning! Over the last four years, Global Fund for Women’s Adolescent Girls Advisory Council (AGAC) has…

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Lessons from Grassroots Feminist Leaders in Peru

Marry — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:16:03 +0000

Letter from PeiYao Chen, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women I've just returned from an inspiring trip to Peru to visit Global Fund for Women's grantee partners. During this journey, my team and I met with more than ten organizations across the coastal cities of Lima and Chiclayo and the highland cities of Ayacucho and Sarhua. I still remember the early days—over four years ago—when we…

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Trust-Based Funding in Action: Lessons Learned from Feminist Movements in the Western Balkans

Marry — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:15:36 +0000

Published July 29, 2025 “This is the first time where I'm just feeling constantly supported about every issue that I bring up, and I don't feel like I have to fight about things that, you know, relate to the F-word,’” said Andrea Ugrinoska, Executive Director of Tiiiit! Inc. in North Macedonia. That “F-word” is feminism, and it’s at the heart of a growing movement across the Western…

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Afro-Mexican Women’s Collective Action, Resistance, and Renewal

Marry — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:52:23 +0000

Published June 11, 2025 "We don’t just want survival; we want dignity. We want a world where our daughters don’t have to fight the same battles we did.” – Mijane Jiménez Salinas, Executive Director of Mano Amiga de La Costa Chica, a Global Fund for Women grantee partner. Mano Amiga mobilizes Afro-Mexican women and girls’ grassroots solutions into collective action—fighting gender-based…

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On the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis, Ugandan Activists Find Solutions Beyond the Injustice

Marry — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:58:27 +0000

In Uganda, climate change isn’t a distant threat; it’s an immediate crisis. Communities across the country, from bustling Kampala to rural Jinja, are feeling its effects – erratic rainfall, droughts, and devastating landslides. At the forefront of the response are women and girls in all their diversity, pioneering solutions in agriculture, water management, and community education.

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DRC Feminist Leaders: ‘We Will Not Stop until Survivors’ Voices are Heard, and Justice is Served’

Marry — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:35:27 +0000

Our movement members are in grave danger, simply for denouncing the cases of survivors and seeking justice," our partners in The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shared. "We are facing reprisals. But we cannot remain silent; we have to raise our voices to protect the people we serve." The DRC is in a devastating crisis: millions of people have been displaced due to armed conflict which has also…

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Growing Together Towards Gender Justice: Annual Report 2024

Marry — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:48:53 +0000

Download our Annual Report Last year, despite unprecedented challenges—climate disasters, war, authoritarian opposition, and attacks on reproductive rights—global gender justice movements pressed forward. Around the world, our partners have improved the lives of women, girls, and all historically marginalized communities while relentlessly pushing for progress.

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We are unwavering in our commitment to Gender Justice

Marry — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:28:12 +0000

Published January 31, 2025 In times of uncertainty and injustice, Global Fund for Women stands unwavering in our commitment to feminist leaders worldwide. Our work has always been on the side of justice—for all people, in all places. We stand with those who have been historically marginalized and living at the intersections of multiple forms of oppression. We stand with those…

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