Renewed women’s voice and leadership - Peru

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed women’s voice and leadership (WVL) program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs) lesbian bisexual transgender queer intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding. It seeks to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster women’s rights alliances as WROs and their networks are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The renewed WVL program provides enhanced support for WROs LBTQI+ organizations and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to LBTQI+ communities women and girls with disabilities Indigenous women and girls and young feminists. This project aims to support 5 local implementing partners and their 210 staff to advance their objectives and priorities and empower them and their organizations to advance women’s girls LBTQI+ individual and collective rights in Peru. The project also aims to benefit 10 000 women and female youth Indigenous women LBTQI+ people 600 community leaders and local and regional authorities directly. Cuso International is implementing the project.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced organizational sustainability of local and regional WROs and LBTQI+ groups to deliver their gender equality mandates in Peru; (2) strengthened programming and advocacy of WROs LBTQI+ groups and women human rights defenders to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; and (3) increased effectiveness of sub-national national regional and global women’s rights platforms networks and alliances to affect policy legal and social change in Peru.