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Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

18/03/2020

16 pages long

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Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

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Feminists can organise! But what happens when informal collectives and movements face pressures to formalise and become non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? This is a common dilemma faced by feminists and other social justice activists as their organisations grow and they seek to extend and expand their impact, often seeking outside funding. As activists become professionalised ‘employees’ […]

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Making the case for a transformed development ecosystem: a feminist reflection on the experience of RootsLab in Lebanon

18/03/2020

14 pages long

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Making the case for a transformed development ecosystem: a feminist reflection on the experience of RootsLab in Lebanon

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This article draws on our experience of implementing RootsLab, a feminist programme piloted in Lebanon by Oxfam, Global Fund for Women, FRIDA|Young Feminist Fund, and Young Foundation. It works with young grassroots activists, supporting feminist movement building. Here, we reflect critically on RootsLab, and its place and role in the wider development system. RootsLab offers […]

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

18/03/2020

17 pages long

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

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‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such […]

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Evaluation report

RootsLab Lebanon Pilot Evaluation Report and Project Completion Report

07/08/2019

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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RootsLab is a collaborative pilot project supported by FRIDA | Young Feminist Fund, Global Fund for Women, Oxfam and Young Foundation. The aim of the first pilot, which took place in Lebanon, was to determine the best ways of incubating social change led by young women and trans* activists. The evaluation report examines whether the […]

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Research report

Feminist Movement Building in Lebanon: Challenges and opportunities

07/08/2019

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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This research report explores key characteristics of feminist organizing in Lebanon through the lens of movement building. The authors produced it as part of their work with the RootsLab pilot program in Lebanon, a social innovation partnership between FRIDA | Young Feminist Fund, Global Fund for Women, Oxfam and Young Foundation. The pilot brought together […]

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Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

14/11/2018

16 pages long

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Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

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The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been criticised by many feminists for perpetuating patronising discourses that see girls and women in the Global North as the saviours of their counterparts in the South, while doing little to challenge underlying global inequalities. This article draws on focus group data with Girl Up club members […]

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Young feminists’ creative strategies to challenge the status quo: a view from FRIDA

14/11/2018

17 pages long

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Young feminists’ creative strategies to challenge the status quo: a view from FRIDA

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Young feminist organising is springing up in all corners of the globe – from Mexico to Morocco to Malaysia – powered by brave young women, girls and trans* youth who are creating the change the world needs. FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund – is a young feminist-led organisation that began in 2010. It aims […]

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

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Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

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Journal article

Introduction: development and young feminisms

14/11/2018

14 pages long

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Introduction: development and young feminisms

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This is the introductory article to Gender & Development issue 26(3) Young Feminisms

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‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

11/07/2018

14 pages long

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‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

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Established in 2006, Take Back the Tech! is a global campaign that encourages women and girls to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Through interviews with women in the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, and India, this article explores how, ten years later, girls and young women are ‘taking back’ technology to demand their rights and […]

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