Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership – Central America

Development Project

Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership – Central America

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Project Overview

The Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership -- Central America (R-WVL-C) aims to enhance the enjoyment of women's rights in all their diversity and advance gender equality in the four targeted countries of the WVL initiative. R-WVL-C will support and strengthen Women's rights organizations, Indigenous women's organizations, Organizations of women with disabilities and Feminist organizations.

Target Groups: The project will adopt a deliberate intersectional approach to directly and primarily reach LBTQI+ groups, Grassroots and emerging organizations, Organizations working with women with disabilities, and Women human rights defenders.

Implementation Framework

To achieve its expected results, the project will implement the three key mechanisms of the WVL framework in each country:
  • Multi-year funding
  • Capacity strengthening
  • Support for strengthening networks and alliances
A responsive fund will be used as a complementary mechanism in Honduras and Guatemala to address emergencies and crises affecting the target groups. At the national level, the organizations participating in the project, along with their initiatives, will also be strengthened through a regional component focusing on building networks, platforms, and alliances, creating spaces for mutual learning among target organizations, fostering political dialogue and implementing a knowledge management strategy.

Project Impact & Statistics

98
ODDF+ Organizations Reached		 31
Organizations Receiving Multi-year Funding		 17
Groups Benefiting from Responsive Fund
88
Organizations in Capacity-building Activities		 4,000
Women Directly Benefited
(30% young women)		 17,000+
Women Indirectly Impacted

Guiding Principles

The project will be guided by Oxfam's feminist principles, including a feminist monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability strategy, a transformative leadership methodology for promoting women's rights and a peer-learning approach, integrating insights and recommendations from the first phase of WVL in Guatemala and Honduras (2019-2024).

Partner Organizations

R-WVL-C is a collaboration of Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Quebec, Plataforma 25 de Noviembre (Honduras), Tz'ununija, Ixmukané, and AMUTED (Guatemala), Ormusa and Colectivo Feminista para el Desarrollo Local (El Salvador).

DETAILS

Location:

  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • El Salvador
  • Costa Rica

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Duration:
2025-2031

Project Budget:
$12.6M ($500K to Oxfam Canada, with the rest managed by OQC)

OUR SUPPORTERS
This project is undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada, and the generous Canadian public.

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Project at a Glance

4000
women will benefit from project activities
98
WROs will be strengthened
17000
women indirectly reached through the project

What do we hope to achieve?

  • Enhanced sustainability of local and regional women’s rights organizations and LBTQI+ groups to advance their feminist mandates.
  • Strengthened programming and advocacy of women’s rights organizations, LBTQI+ groups and women human rights defenders to advance gender equality and empower women and girls
  • Increased effectiveness of sub-national, national, regional and global women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change

To achieve its expected results, the project will implement the three key mechanisms of the WVL framework in each country: multi-year funding, capacity strengthening and support for strengthening networks and alliances. A responsive fund will be used as a complementary mechanism in Honduras and Guatemala to address emergencies and crises affecting the target groups. At the national level, the organizations participating in the project, along with their initiatives, will also be strengthened through a regional component. This third pillar focuses on, building networks, platforms, and alliances, creating spaces for mutual learning among target organizations, fostering political dialogue and implementing a knowledge management strategy.

What are we doing?

FUNDING

Short-term and multi-year funding to support the equality-seeking programs and advocacy work of WROs in Central America

SUPPORT

Direct support to build on the existing leadership, programming and advocacy work being done by the WROs.

NETWORK BUILDING

Critical network and alliance building, both nationally and internationally, focused on advancing the human rights of diverse women in Central America

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