Author: Tenzin Dolker

Tenzin Dolker is a Tibetan American feminist advocate and researcher currently based in Chicago. At the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), she leads the "Where is the Money for Feminist Organizing?" and Autonomous Resourcing projects on the Resourcing Feminist Movements team. Tenzin Dolker is a PhD fellow in governance and policy analysis at UNU-MERIT at Maastricht University where she researches gender and labour migration.

The Need To Resource Feminist Movements Has Never Been Greater. Where’s the Money for Feminist Organizing?

The Need To Resource Feminist Movements Has Never Been Greater—So Where's the Money for Feminist Organizing?

AWID’s latest funding analysis show that 99% of development aid and foundation grants do not reach women’s rights and feminist organizations. WROs receive only 0.12% of the total Official Development Assistance and 0.4% of all gender-related aid. 48% of women’s rights and feminist organizations in the Global South operate on limited annual budgets of $30,000 or less.

Yet the urgency to adequately resource the full diversity of the ecosystem of feminist movements has never been greater.