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Follow The MoneyBy: Karen Takacs" Last month at the World Economic Forum, Erna Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway declared,“When you invest in a girl`s education, she feeds herself, her children, her community and her nation.”This is not the first time that a call for greater investment in women and girls has been made at Davos.Lately it seems that everyone is talking about the importance of investing in women and girls, from theelites at Davos to Dove and Nike. However, even though everyone is talking about women and girls,very little funding is actually going to women and girls. According to the Association for Women’s Rightsin Development ( AWID)'s latest FundHer Report, “Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots, “ one of thestriking paradoxes of this moment is that the spotlight on women and girls seems to have had littleimpact on improving the funding situation of a large majority of women’s organizations around the world.The median annual income of the 740 women's organizations that responded to the FundHer survey wasa paltry $20,000 U.S., and the 2010 combined income of these 740 organizations amounted to $106million U.S. – one third of Greenpeace Worldwide’s annual budget of $309 million and less than 7% ofSave the Children’s International’s global budget of 1,44 billion. 1!" These days I can’t seem to walk anywhere in downtown Toronto without seeing a Because I ama Girl or a CARE I am Powerful poster on some hoarding somewhere. From INGOs to the private sectorto multilateral institutions (the IMF also recently released a report on Women, Work and the Economy),women and girls seem to be a priority, so why has this not translated into more stable funding forwomen’s organizations? Well thanks to AWID’s Where is the Money for Women’s Rights Initiativelaunched in 2005, we are beginning to get a clearer picture. Part of the challenge lies with the languageof investment, which tends to favour short-term measurable projects and service delivery. As a resultvery little of what is being allocated to women’s rights organizations is core funding; 48% of respondentsto AWID’s survey reported never having received core funding and 52% reported never having receivedmulti-year funding. 2 Organizations are more precarious than ever, which we know to be true from ourown work with very credible partners on the ground, who all seem to be scrambling for fewer and fewerresources." There may be more money available to address the needs of women and girls but less of it isgoing to women’s organizations. AWID found that “There is an ever increasing interest in women andgirls as a priority - at least a rhetorical one - in nearly every funding sector. Vast resources are becomingavailable under the broad umbrella of ‘development’ and trends like “investing in women and girls" areincreasingly heralded as a keystone strategy for women’s economic empowerment, and indeed, forbroader development and economic growth.” 3 As a result, some civil society actors (INGOs) areexpanding their own work with women and girls, opening up their own offices and competing with and insome cases displacing local women’s organizations. This is one of the downsides of gendermainstreaming, as I see it – anyone can provide services to women and girls but not necessarily from arights based perspective. The problem is that while there may be more micro loans available to women,for example, women remain subjects and are not necessarily supported to become actors andadvocates in their own right. Interestingly, AWID surveys show a significant drop in the share of incomethat women’s organizations report from international NGOs (INGOs), down from 14% in 2005 to 7% in2010. 4!"#$%&'%(')"%*"+,-.//0001%0&21345/6&(4%47/8%*)4&95:*+):6)%$);:)-34*?"-1"!@A"BCBD?"-1"!E1F"BCBD?"-1"!E1G"B(&2"-1"!H116
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