Women’s Voice and Leadership – Pakistan
Development Project
Women’s Voice and Leadership – Pakistan
Strengthening the leadership of local women's rights organizations to stop the human rights violations of women and girls in Pakistan
The Situation
In Pakistan, women and girls are among the most at risk of having their human rights violated, and those who are also members of other marginalized groups face further discrimination.
Pakistan's constitution calls for equality, rights and protection for all. However, human rights violations are an ongoing concern.
The country's women's rights movement has deteriorated to critical levels, with women's rights organizations and movements facing shrinking spaces in which to organize. Many organizations suffer from a lack of capacity, resources and autonomy to drive their own change agendas. There is also a lack of platforms for collaboration and collective action for women's rights organizations.
DETAILS
LOCATION
Pakistan
DURATION
5 years (2019-2024)
The Women's Voice and Leadership Program is a worldwide initiative by Global Affairs Canada to support local and regional women's organizations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls' rights and achieve gender equality.
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.
What are we doing?
SUPPORT
Providing core funding, capacity strengthening and further developing women’s leadership, including through intergenerational mentoring.
PROGRAMMING
Supporting women's rights organizations to deliver programming and campaigns that better meet the needs of the women and girls they serve.
NETWORK BUILDING
Supporting women's rights organizations, coalitions and activists to effect gender-transformative policy change.
What do we hope to achieve?
Oxfam works alongside women’s rights organizations to strengthen the leadership of women and women's rights organizations in Pakistan, to increase the relevance of women’s rights programming and advocacy work and to strengthen women’s rights networks and alliances. Together, these efforts will address human rights violations against women and girls and advance gender equality in Pakistan.
Using a strategic combination of funding and capacity strengthening, Oxfam supports women’s rights organizations to be better managed and more self-sustaining. This will ensure they can deliver programming that better meets the needs of the women and girls they serve.
The project will also improve the ability of women’s rights organizations and activists to work together more effectively toward gender-transformative policies.
Help women and girls in Pakistan fight for their human rights.