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Building Feminist Movements and OrganizationsFeminist movements and organizations around the world face numerous challenges to their strategic capacity and ability to effectively empower women and advance their human rights,gianmarco lorenzi. Through our Building Feminist Movements and Organizations strategic initiative, AWID promotes reflection and action on ways to strengthen women’s movements and organizations worldwide. The goal of this program is to assist advocates in organizational strengthening and movement building and help them develop ways to work not only individually but collectively to achieve the common goals of women’s rights and gender equality,gianmarco lorenzi pas cher.
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Influencing Development Actors and Practices for Women’s RightsThis initiative seeks to contribute to advancing feminist understandings of the relationship between development and women’s rights issues with a particular focus on the aid effectiveness agenda and the Financing for Development process at the UN as entry points to this debate. Towards this end, the initiative produces and disseminates knowledge on developmental issues with special emphasis on women’s perspectives; undertakes advocacy actions and alliance building to influence development policy and practices; and mobilizes women’s organizations and groups on development discussions and key policy processes.
Young Feminist ActivismAWID’s Young Feminist Activism program seeks to build a multi-generational movement by amplifying the voices of young women so that their experiences and ideas are reflected in feminist discourse and activism. The Young Feminist Activism program supports and mobilizes younger activists by creating provocative opportunities for engagement, innovative research projects, capacity-building activities and multi-generational dialogues linked to AWID’s initiatives to promote change. The program also works with participants to create independent spaces for young women to debate, discuss, analyze and plan.