Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership - Senegal

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 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. The project implemented by Oxfam Québec contributes to promoting the improvement of the rights of women and girls in all their diversity and advancing gender equality in Senegal. It aims to directly benefit a total of 56 WROs and at least 20 women human rights defenders (WHRDs). Although the project has a national scope the programmatic and advocacy actions of the supported WROs focuses primarily though not exclusively on the following regions: Saint-Louis Matam Ziguinchor Kédougou Diourbel Thiès Kaolack Fatick and Dakar.

The expected results of this project include: (1) enhanced organizational sustainability of local women’s rights organizations (WROs) to deliver their gender equality mandates; (2) strengthened programming and advocacy of WROs and women human rights defenders (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 Senegal.