When women’s rights organisations are given the flexibility to decide their own priorities and develop their own projects, there are clear positive impacts for women and girls – who are often at the forefront of peacebuilding. To mark the 24th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, we share some of the incredible work that women’s rights organisations are doing in Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, through the Resourcing Change project.
Watch our interview series with Resourcing Change partners
This project – led by Saferworld in a consortium with Women for Women International and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – provides women’s rights organisations with flexible funding. The organisations decide how to use these funds, enabling them to set their own agendas, design their own activities and pursue their own goals. This model challenges the prevailing donor-led model of development, shifting power towards women's rights organisations working to address problems at their roots and prevent conflict.
Advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda requires prioritising and sustaining the essential work led by WROs, women-led organisations and feminist groups. The Resourcing Change project re-affirms that this approach is both feasible and transformative. It has supported 23 WROs and two women’s hubs to lead change in conflict-affected areas. The series of videos are a testimony of how women activists, women peace builders and WROs in South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria are, and should continue to be, at the centre of advancing a localised WPS agenda.
Resourcing Change is a flagship project in line with Saferworld’s ten-year strategic framework and gender equality strategy, which commit us to continue to raise our level of ambition as we work with others to challenge the gender norms that drive violent conflict and gender-based violence, and to support the leadership of women and girls in peacebuilding.
Find out more about Resourcing Change here.
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Find out more about Saferworld’s gender equality work here.