Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership - Ukraine

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 and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality globally. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding strengthening institutional capacity and bolstering feminist 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 includes 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. The project implemented by the Ukrainian Women's Fund aims to support approximately 150 Ukrainian women's rights organizations through the provision of multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding strengthening institutional capacity and bolstering feminist alliances and networks. The project aims to reach about 85 000 women directly and 1 915 000 women indirectly.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced organizational sustainability of local WROs or LBTQI+ groups to deliver their gender equality mandates in Ukraine; (2) strengthened programming and advocacy of WROs or LBTQI+ groups and WHRDs 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 Ukraine.