What we fund
WHEAT funds are available to women-led community based organisations (CBOs) that are making advancement in the following areas:
· HIV and AIDS – counselling and care, sexual and reproductive health/rights for women: Focusing on increasing access to treatment, awareness and demystifying the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS. This includes organisations that promote health, develop effective responses to community level health needs and integrate health promotion into local communities.
· Sustainable income for women: Community level responses that aim and have the potential to increase resources available through local and national government and other agencies, income and job opportunities, including access to skills development and training.
· Gender based violence: Focus on projects working to: reduce levels of domestic violence and generalised violence against women; increase women’s access to justice; campaign against hate related crimes; provide safe spaces and support services for those affected by violence.
· Refugee women and migrant rights: Focus on projects supporting and enhancing the human rights of refugees/migrants and advocating on behalf of these groups.
· Lesbian women’s groups: emerging groups or organisations in towns and rural areas working with stigma, rape and abuse.
· Environmental sustainability: Encourages women to actively participate in protecting their environment. The development of organic gardens would be one way of protecting the environment and giving women access to healthy food.
What we do not fund
· Groups/organisations whose aim is to convert people to a religion or to evangelise
· Groups/organisations that have links to political groups/organisations
· Government departments
· Terrorist activities
· Academic organisations and/or institutions
· Women’s organisations that are not led by women.
Criteria for the review of grant applications
Preference will be given to women’s groups/organisations that meet the following criteria:
· Women from rural and peri-urban areas
· Women-led grassroot groups/organisations that cannot yet access formal funds
· Groups/organisations that are making a contribution in the development of women’s rights
· Women-led grassroot groups/organisations that commit to using the grant for the development of the group/organisation
· Women-led grassroot groups/organisations that are able to prove the impact of their group/organisation to the development of the community
· Women-led grassroot groups/organisations that are sustainable (that means the project will continue even after the grant is used).
