Project profile — Women’s Voices and Leadership - Haiti

• Haiti (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls by supporting local organizations that advance women’s rights in Haiti. It is building the capacity of local women’s rights organizations to provide services to their constituents; help women to know and claim their rights; advocate for gender equality; and empower women and girls. The project reflects growing international evidence of the critical role that local women’s rights and feminist organizations play in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Project activities include the provision of: (1) multi-year funding to selected local women’s rights organizations; (2) targeted capacity building to organizations selected for multi-year funding; (3) support to strengthen networks and alliances between women’s rights organizations; and (4) small, short-term funding to local women’s rights organizations and networks to pilot innovative ideas and approaches, and to respond quickly to unforeseen events and opportunities. This project aims to enable women's organizations in Haiti to improve the management of their programs, increase the quality of services offered and work to restore strong support networks that is expected to directly benefit more than 3,000 women and girls, and indirectly to more than 130,000 women and girls.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved management, programming and sustainability of local women’s rights organizations in Haiti, particularly those representing vulnerable and marginalized women and girls; (2) enhanced delivery of services and advocacy by women’s rights organizations to advance gender equality in Haiti; and (3) increased effectiveness of national and sub-national women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect gender-sensitive policy change and policy implementation in Haiti.

Results achieved at the end of the project in December 2023 include: (1) built capacity for 31 local women's civil society organisations and 6 women's networks. This helped to improve their ability to provide support to more than 4,232 survivors of gender-based violence (GBV); (2) delivered training, workshops and advocacy activities to advance women's rights and combat GBV for more than 50,237 people (including 44,139 women); (3) provided financial support of $1.89 million to 78 women's and feminist civil society organisations (F/CSOs) through responsive funding for specific activities aimed at defending women's interests and improving their conditions. This includes the purchase of equipment for mobile canteens to fund their advocacy activities; (4) provided support to an organisation in the North-East to adopt a departmental action plan for gender-sensitive judicial protection to help prevent rape in prisons or during arrests; (5) developed a strengthening plan for 30 CSOs/F to help them with their advocacy and funding efforts; (6) provided technical support to 21 partner organisations to help them increase their income-generating activities (observed average increase of 50%) so that they can continue their work after the end of the project; and (7) launched an online platform against GBV where a number of tools and resources remain available for civil society organisations and the Haitian population.

• Proactive disclosure