Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership - Sri Lanka

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.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced organizational capacity of local Women’s Rights Organizations to deliver their gender equality and women’s empowerment mandates; (2) strengthened programming and advocacy of Women’s Rights Organizations 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.