What is Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Myanmar?
WVL Myanmar funds, supports and connects women's rights organisations to sustain and empower feminist movements that can deliver transformative change for Myanmar women and girls.
We do this by providing women's rights organisations with support in four key areas that global evidence has shown is critical to making progress towards gender equality. This includes:
We do this by providing women's rights organisations with support in four key areas that global evidence has shown is critical to making progress towards gender equality. This includes:
Flexible, core,
long-term funding
Access to rapid
response funds
Organisational capacity strengthening
Support to network and movement building
Why we provide long-term funding and support.
A growing body of international research shows that women's rights organisations and feminist movements are crucial to achieving meaningful progress towards gender equality. Despite this, just 1% of the funding invested in gender equality globally goes to women's rights organisations. When it does, funding is often short-term and project-based. This superficial, fragmented support results in women's rights organisations often being unable to scale up their work and build their organisational capacity for the long-term.
Global Affairs Canada is leading the charge to reverse this trend by providing core, long-term funding and organisational development support to women's rights organisations, in Myanmar and across the world through their global Women's Voice and Leadership initiative. With this funding, women's rights organisations and movements will be supported to become stronger, more resilient and connected, and therefore more able to produce the change to gendered power relations that they are best placed to deliver.
Global Affairs Canada is leading the charge to reverse this trend by providing core, long-term funding and organisational development support to women's rights organisations, in Myanmar and across the world through their global Women's Voice and Leadership initiative. With this funding, women's rights organisations and movements will be supported to become stronger, more resilient and connected, and therefore more able to produce the change to gendered power relations that they are best placed to deliver.
Who funds WVL Myanmar?
WVL Myanmar is funded by Global Affairs Canada, who has generously contributed CAD 4.8 million to supporting women's rights organisations and movements in Myanmar.
Women's Voice and Leadership is a global initiative that is part of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and is currently being implemented across in 30 countries/regions. To learn more about Global Affairs Canada’s investment in Women’s Voice and Leadership globally, visit their website.
The WVL Myanmar Team
WVL Myanmar has a full-time management team based in Yangon who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the programme, including grant making, partner oversight, monitoring and evaluation, conflict sensitivity, risk management and financial oversight. The WVL Myanmar team is here to help you apply for funding, to provide accompaniment and support as you implement your projects, and assist with any general inquires.
You can find all of our contact information on the contact page. We encourage you to get in touch with any questions you may have about WVL Myanmar and the funding and support being offered through this exciting new feminist programme.
You can find all of our contact information on the contact page. We encourage you to get in touch with any questions you may have about WVL Myanmar and the funding and support being offered through this exciting new feminist programme.
Who manages WVL Myanmar?
WVL Myanmar is one of four programmes in Myanmar managed by the Nordic International Support Foundation (NIS).
NIS is a Norwegian-registered, non-profit foundation engaged in stabilisation and reconciliation initiatives in conflict and post-conflict areas. NIS’ primary areas of intervention are institutional development, public service delivery, and conflict resolution.