The Fiji Women’s Fund (referred to henceforth as ‘the Fund’) is an initiative of the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) Program, funded by the AustralianGovernment. The Fund’s objective is to provide women’s groups, organisations and networks with the support that they need to improve women’s lives, particularly those in rural and remote areas or who are marginalised or disadvantaged.
In line with this objective, the Fund has identified three end-of-investment outcomes to be achieved by 2022. These are:
• Women’s groups, organisations, or networks supported by the Fund are empowered and have improved capacity (knowledge, skills, resources and relationships) to contribute to transformative change that improves women’s lives;
• Women’s groups, organisations, or networks supported by the Fund are more influential at different levels (individual / systemic and formal / informal) and are contributing to transformative change in women’s lives; and
• The Fund has transitioned to an independent local entity and has secured funding from donors, private sector, and local philanthropy. The Fund works across four thematic areas which are; eliminating violence against women; empowering women through increased economic opportunities; improving women’s participation in leadership and decision making; and strengthening women’s groups and coalitions for change.
The Fund will support grantees in strengthening their capacity to promote and achieve gender transformative change.The Capacity Building Strategy of the Fund is complemented by theGender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Strategy that will ensure that the Fund’s approach to gender equality and the empowerment of women are integrated into every aspect of its work to support grantees to reduce inequalities and exclusion. To ensure that grantees can integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in all aspects of their programming the Fund will deliver trainings on GESI to all its grantees. This GESI Toolkit will aid this approach. This toolkit can also help grantees to disseminate knowledge of GESI within their organization.
Full book is available at: https://pacificwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/FWF-GESI-Toolkit-web-final.pdf