Opportunity and emergency grants
The Alliance provides a small number of grants each year as rapid response funding that allows organisations to take advantage of emerging opportunities or respond to urgent challenges at the intersection of gender and democracy. Opportunity and emergency grants provide timely support to organisations advancing gender equality in an ever-changing political, economic, and social context. These enable organisations to leverage political momentum or bring emergency funding where it is needed most due to risk of closure, attacks from anti-gender movements, or other emerging crises.
WHO SUPPORTS THIS SUB-FUND?
Opportunity and emergency grants are made possible by Bodossaki Foundation, Fondation CHANEL, Fondation RAJA-Danièle Marcovici, King Baudouin Foundation, and L’Oréal Fund for Women.
The rise of the anti-gender movement, combined with the shrinking pool of funding for gender equality, poses a serious threat to the hard-won rights already in place. The anti-gender movement brings together individuals and groups who oppose equality and promote the myth that ‘gender’ is an “ideology”. This movement brings together a diverse array of individuals and groups that collaborate transnationally. Tactically, this movement relies on disinformation to influence national and EU policies to reverse progress and undermine reproductive rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, sexuality education, and legislation combatting gender-based violence. Since the 1990s, this movement has grown in influence and financing while pushing their anti-rights agendas.