Stricking Data on funding trends for women’s rights

PeiYao, Director of Learning, Evaluation and Impact at GFW went over data gleaned from over 3,000 organizations located all over the world. The preliminary analysis of this data revealed important information on funding trends for women’s rights including:

1. Grant sizes from donors are increasing as is restricted funding (funding given for a specific project or purpose - not flexible).

2. However, women’s rights organizations cannot meet all the donor criteria and these funds are thus inaccessible to them.

3. lobal Fund for Women provides flexible grants for transformative women’s rights work. Each year, Global Fund for Women receives over 2,500 proposals but only has enough funding to support 20% of the proposals showing that there is a high demand and need for the type of funding Global Fund for Women provides.

TRENDS • Large donors are moving towards giving larger-size grants

•Women’s rights organizations who do not meet certain criteria are left out •Restricted funding is growing yet our annual available revenue fluctuates

•The demand is high—we receive over 2,500 proposals each year and are able to award about 20%

•Significant resources are spent on applications that are ultimately declined. *3,024 Organisations from 100 countries submitted profiles.