Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership - South Sudan

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) 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 strengthens institutional capacity and bolsters feminist movements as WROs and feminist movements are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and feminist movements worldwide. It includes enhanced support for WROs LBTQI+ organizations and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) 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 is facilitated by CARE and implemented under the leadership of Women-Lead Organizations and networks themselves offering space for them to determine key priorities selection processes and results. Also it remains flexible to the context and needs of the South Sudan women’s rights movement. This initiative aims to support an estimated 25 WLOs and 8 networks with multiyear flexible operational funding to strengthen their structure enhance their management and programming capacities all while improving their ability to sustain their organizations and service delivery with additional predictable funding. Additionally 40 rapid response funds (RRFs) are allocated to address emergent needs.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced organizational sustainability of local WROs or LBTQI+ groups to deliver their gender equality mandates in South Sudan; (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 South Sudan.