Annual Report 2017 The photograph on the cover was taken by Sam Youngman who took part in a photography course held by Crisis UK, a homelessness charity supported by Oak Foundation. His photo was one of a selection displayed on Crisis’ online art gallery: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ get-in-volved/art-in-crisis-gallery/

He says, “Since being at Crisis I have become housed after two decades of living rough, passed exams and now become a student at Brookes University in Oxford. Working with computers since being at Crisis, I became interested in digital art and attended the photography class over the last year.”

Please see the back cover to find out how this picture embodies Oak's values.

Learn more about Oak’s values here: www.oakfnd.org/about-oak.html

Our mission

Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

Contents

02 About Oak Our history/Remembering Gary Goodman Letter from the Trustees Our grant-making in 2017 Capacity building

08 Child Abuse 16 Environment 24 Housing and Homelessness 32 International Human Rights 40 Issues Affecting Women 48 Learning Differences 54 Special Interest 62 Joint Brazil 68 Joint India 74 Denmark 78 Zimbabwe 82 Oak staff and addresses 84 References 2 Our history © Rachel McKee/Oak Foundation © Rachel McKee/Oak

The resources of Oak Foundation Switzerland and a presence in seven originated from an interest in the other countries: Bulgaria, Denmark, Since its Duty Free Shoppers business which India, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, establishment, Alan Parker helped to build. Today, the United States and Zimbabwe. Oak Foundation the Foundation comprises a group of has made philanthropic organisations based in more than various countries around the world. Remembering Oak Foundation was formally 4,300 established in 1983. Early grants were Gary Goodman made in Denmark to organisations Staff and Trustees of Oak Foundation grants to supporting single mothers and torture would like to mark the passing of our not-for-profit victims (1983) and in Zimbabwe to beloved friend and colleague groups supporting vulnerable children organisations Gary Goodman (featured above) who and families, primarily at community across the globe. died on 14 February 2017. Gary was levels (1984). Grants continued to be the secretary of Oak Foundation from made annually in several countries 1998 to shortly before his death. From until a new phase for Oak Foundation the early stages, he helped Trustees began in the early 1990s, when annual transform their passions into concrete grant-making increased and staff were grants. For close to two decades, his hired to run substantive programmes. pragmatism, good judgement and The first two programmes to get commitment meant that he played a underway were Environment and pivotal role in making Oak Foundation Child Abuse, followed by four other what it is today. programmes – Housing and Gary was a pillar of strength. We miss his Homelessness, International Human spirit and enthusiasm for life and work. Rights, Issues Affecting Women and We also miss his good humour, optimism Learning Differences. and helpfulness. Gary enriched our lives There is also a Special Interest and we remember him fondly and with Programme, which funds efforts affection. He will continue to inspire identified by the Trustees that do not us in the work we do in support of our fall into the other programme areas, Trustees and to achieve the mission of and two national programmes in Oak Foundation. Denmark and Zimbabwe. Five of Oak’s programmes also fund initiatives in India and Brazil, which are known as the Joint India Programme and Joint Brazil Programme. Since its establishment, Oak Foundation has made more than 4,300 grants to not-for-profit organisations across the globe. Oak Foundation has its main administrative office in Geneva, 3 Letter from the Trustees

In our last two Annual Reports, we economic and other forms of violence. noted the tumultuous nature of world It means tackling deeply held events – and their impact on our work misconceptions about discipline, 'good' and partners. 2017 was no exception. parenting and the entitlements of some Our partners – which totalled 308 in 35 groups over others. countries – continued to face new and - The situation of migrants continues intense challenges as they strove to to receive special attention in promote human rights, end violence, countries all around the world. protect the vulnerable, improve Services that include street outreach, education and save the planet. In one free healthcare, legal advice and case last year, a wildlife defender paid temporary housing are offered to the ultimate price, losing his life in ease the physical and mental pain of pursuit of justice. Others live under displacement; public exhibitions and constant threat and attack. In some of appeals to core values are launched the areas in which we work, progress to open minds and opportunities. The was re-defined as standing still against safety of people on the move, whether assaults on hard-won gains. Despite this, to escape violence or to realise dreams, there are impressive achievements to features in many of the grants made report. For example: this year. - While the human rights community is - Our concern for the environment is described at large as on the defensive, taking new forms. This includes global our partners are holding the powerful campaigns – from ridding the oceans to account. They are organising in new of plastics to supporting urban waste ways, re-framing their messages, using pickers, the unsung heroes of recycling new tools and speaking out through in Brazil and other countries. Efforts to protests, social media and the press. ensure safe and reliable public transport In doing so they are raising awareness designed to serve low-income areas and of, and demanding attention to, give priority to pedestrians and cyclists controversial issues such as the rights are central to our concept of sustainable of prisoners in Brazil, undocumented cities. migrants in Europe and the sexual abuse of children worldwide. These are just a few examples among many of how our partners are - Increasing people’s knowledge of promoting social justice, citizen their rights and courage to claim them participation, access to information remain central themes of our support. and services, collaboration and more We see this in a small but tenacious inclusive and personalised education group providing advice and services to across the world. The common threads victims of violence in Mexico, in the legal of these efforts are: respect for human assistance offered to asylum seekers in rights; support for courage and the US and in the defence of safe urban innovation; and celebration of the hu- spaces in India and Brazil. In some cases, man spirit. We hope that you will be as the demands of the most vulnerable – inspired as we are by this work and its such as rickshaw pullers in India, results. institutionalised children in Bulgaria and single homeless people in the UK – are being heard. This is in part thanks to The Trustees of Oak Foundation: advocacy and campaigning for improved Caroline Turner, Kristian Parker, laws and policies. Natalie Shipton, Jette Parker, - Ending violence against women and Alan Parker, Christopher Parker children – and transforming social norms that drive it – runs through several of our programmes. This requires addressing: power imbalances in homes and communities; lack of safe spaces and public transport; rigid concepts of masculinity; and a broader understanding of psychological, 4 Our grant-making in 2017

All amounts provided represent US dollars in millions.

We made During the 2017 calendar year, Oak Foundation made 328 programme grants for a total of USD 199.55 million. This exclude 2 Special Initiative grants for 330 a total of USD 12 million. These grants supported 308 organisations based in 35 countries. The work of these organisations is carried out throughout the programme world. Not including the Special Initiative grants, the size of grants varied from grants to approximately USD 25,000 to USD 7 million, with an average of USD 600,000. 308 organisations in 35 Total programme and discretionary countries. grant-making in 2017 5

199.55 M Total programme grants 12.85 M Discretionary grants (2.70 M) Refunds and cancellations

209.70 M TOTAL REGULAR GRANT-MAKING 12.00 M Special Initiative grants*

221.70 M NET AMOUNT GRANTED

Total grant-making 2008-2017 245.78 M 100.10 158.32 M 216.88 M 217.07 M 111.83 M 116.72 M 149.90 M 159.90 M 221.70 M M

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

* Please see page 61 of this report for the Special Initiative grants.

A searchable grant database containing grants approved in previous years, grant-making criteria and application information are available on Oak Foundation's website (www.oakfnd.org). 6 Capacity building

Oak Foundation supports initiatives The core of Oak’s approach to capacity that develop the capacity building of its development is a focus on providing Since Semillas partners to carry out their work more support to individual grantees to grow was founded, effectively. In this year's annual report, and develop. We have a strong and it has supported we have focused on strategic planning shared ethos that capacity development more than and core support. should be owned by our partners, led 450 women's by them and tailored to their needs. organisations We want our partners to feel supported in Mexico, in their individual learning journeys to benefiting Semillas: access appropriate support so that they 2.5 million become stronger, more able to achieve people. transforming their social justice outcomes and are sustainable, resilient and effective. women’s rights An excellent mechanism which allows grantees to pursue their organisational in Mexico strengthening goals is the core support Oak provides. Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Semillas is a fast-growing organisation Nobel Prize laureate, famously said that that continues to radically impact the “we cannot succeed when half of us women’s movement in Mexico. As part are held back”. In the ever-continuing of this growth, Semillas developed a fight for equality and justice around the new strategic plan for 2016 – 2021 to world, her words carry particular weight. further increase its impact, prestige and Semillas is a women’s fund dedicated visibility, as well as expand its feminist to protecting and empowering women vision and improve its strategic clarity. in Mexico. Semillas envisions a Semillas has used the core funding from sustainable world in which society – in Oak for this process; these funds allow all its diversity – lives in freedom, justice our partners the autonomy to devote and equality and where rights are fully time and resources as they see fit. In exercised. Oak has provided funding to addition, Semillas was in a place where Semillas since 2008 though our Issues a new strategic direction was paramount Affecting Women's Programme. Since for its organisational future. 2011 this support has been in the form of core funds. The strategic planning process was carried out in collaboration with Semillas’ staff, board of directors, "Semillas was founded current and former grantees, by Mexican feminist consultants and strategic allies. After activists who realised that an initial reflection session, committees funding for women's rights were developed to work independently was seldom reaching the on key issues and establish new recommendations for Semillas in the grassroots." following areas: programmes; grantee − Jenny Barry selection process; and grantee Head of Development accompaniment models. Among other Semillas resources, this process was informed Over the last quarter century, by two critical studies (commissioned Semillas has continued to strengthen by Semillas), which explore the best the work of women’s groups that are practices of other women’s funds and under the radar of other donors, either characteristics of social movements. All because they are working in remote participants then came together for a communities or because they form final session and proposals were voted part of marginalised groups that have upon for approval. not been prioritised in development The new strategic plan was released agendas, such as sex workers or lesbian earlier this year. The ambitious plan rights activists. Since Semillas was seeks to honour Semillas' roots by founded, it has supported more than further strengthening its connection 450 women’s organisations in Mexico, to the feminist movement in Mexico. thus benefiting 2.5 million people. 7

“We believe that the collective power “It’s ambitious but also deeply feminist generated by organised women who and a reflection of where the fund are building momentum in local is headed. It has also had significant communities throughout Mexico will positive consequences for Semillas' ultimately lead to broader, structural organisational development and changes,” says Jenny Barry, head of fundraising.” development at Semillas. This shift “In all the years I‘ve received funds from affects how Semillas will make grant- Semillas, I’ve always felt supported,” making and capacity-building decisions says Julieta Hernández, a Semillas and how it will conduct fundraising partner and executive director of Sí and internal procedures. This change Hay Mujeres en Durango. is reflected in the new strategic plan. “We want our policies and practices – the way in which we carry out our work "Semillas is not just – to line up with the values set forth another foundation. It by Semillas and the feminist movement has a human face, and we, as more broadly,” says Jenny. Prior defenders, feel protected. to the strategic planning process, Semillas has made me aware Semillas worked under eight thematic programmes that primarily of opportunities and has responded to the priorities of Semillas' always been watchful for my institutional donors and which were safety." limiting. Under the new plan, Semillas − Julieta Hernández established four broad programme Executive Director areas that will allow the organisation Sí Hay Mujeres en Durango to support a more diverse group of grantees. In undertaking such a radical strategic Over the next few years, Semillas will change, many key lessons were learned. continue to prioritise strengthening “The biggest lesson learned about the the culture of philanthropy in Mexico. process is that the consultants were “Mexicans are incredibly generous, but helpful in facilitating an initial process, they are more likely to give to someone but it was necessary for Semillas’ staff asking for money on the street than to to take the lead and develop our own invest in a cause,” says Jenny. “People methodologies, discussions and working used to tell me, ‘there is no Mexican spaces to get to where we wanted,” philanthropy – asking Mexicans to says Jenny. The team also found that donate is like pulling teeth’. In the past it was extremely important to include few years, we have seen first-hand that grantees and feminist allies in the this is not true. Mexican philanthropy strategic planning process – something is growing and we are hopeful that which had not previously happened. women’s rights advocates in Mexico This helped improve the quality of will increasingly be able to sustain their discussions and push forward a bolder work with the support of local donors.” and more ambitious plan. Other key To find out more about the work lessons included: motivating and of Semillas, visit its website encouraging those who are already on (https://semillas.org.mx/en/) or check out board with the change to help ignite this video, which gives insight into its enthusiasm throughout the whole work and how it directly affects women organisation; and focusing on future in Mexico (https://www.youtube.com/ opportunities, rather than on existing watch?v=-ya-Jsa9mHs&feature=youtu. weaknesses. be&ab_channel=erikasemillas). The new strategic plan has been met For more information on how Oak with enthusiasm by Semillas and its supports the capacity development partners. “I found the new plan of our partners, visit our website inspiring,” says Adriana Craciun, Oak’s http://oakfnd.org/capacity-building.html senior adviser on organisational development and capacity building. 8 CHILD ABUSE Child Abuse

Violence, abuse and exploitation of children are unfortunately not new. The devastating consequences that violence has on children’s development and on societies as a whole are coming to light. At least three in four of the world's children have experienced violence, but it does not

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In the Child Abuse Programme, we envision a world in which all children are protected from sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. We support initiatives that: eliminate the sexual exploitation of children; engage men and boys in combating the sexual abuse of children; and promote the prevention of violence against children. CHILD ABUSE 9

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Reflections

2017 was a year of transition for “Ending Violence in Childhood” the Child Abuse Programme (CAP). and Together for Girls began We began by wishing former director consolidating existing data on the Florence Bruce well in her new pursuits drivers, consequences of and solutions 46 after 18 years of stewardship of the to ending child sexual abuse. Partners programme, and Brigette De Lay took have also conducted research to expand grants were made over the role of director. In the summer, our understanding of youths' by the Child Abuse we welcomed two new programme perceptions of healthy relationships Programme in officers – Helena Duch and and what they think needs to be done 2017, totalling Rita Kahurananga. They brought new to keep children safe and to promote USD 19.72 million. skill sets to our team, expanding our gender-equitable relationships. 55 years of collective grant-making We have learned a lot over these past experience. Finally, we launched a five years, and remain committed to formal review of CAP’s 2012 – 2017 using the power of private philanthropy strategy, including the completion to end child sexual abuse. As we develop of an in-depth external review of our our new strategy, we will prioritise grant-making to engage men and boys prevention, as we believe this is CAP’s in ending child sexual abuse. greatest contribution to the field. We Alongside internal changes, we will also continue to invest in testing continued to be inspired by our partners’ and piloting solutions, especially in the impact on children’s lives. At community global south. We recognise that we levels, our partners continue to pilot and cannot end sexual violence without test new prevention models to tackle increasing political and societal the drivers of sexual violence against attention around the issue. We stand children in Brazil, Bulgaria, Uganda and behind partners who are committed Zanzibar. New networks and coalitions to ending child sexual abuse and have formed and old networks have exploitation and who are pioneers in been strengthened. We supported the rapidly changing field of violence new partnerships to bring more prevention. visibility to child sexual abuse, including the development of a new global index on child sexual violence. We also helped the Swiss organisation Kairos develop an application to promote healthy sexual relationships among adolescents. Many of CAP’s partners have also contributed to the recent evidence revolution in the field of violence prevention. Know Violence in Childhood launched a global report entitled Find out more at www.oakfnd.org 10 CHILD ABUSE

Celebrating 15 years of deinstitution- alisation in Bulgaria

The Berlin wall fell in 1989. This historical moment marked the end of the Soviet Union and the communist era, and the beginning of a largescale move towards a capitalist system in Bulgaria and elsewhere. The transition to a market economy meant widespread disruption to daily life. Changes took place on all levels of society and they deeply affected everyone across the eastern bloc. People struggled to manage financially and poverty was commonplace. The ramifications of these changes are still felt to this day in various ways, and their impact will probably live on forever in people’s memories. For instance, many will recall harrowing images of children in institutional care in Eastern Europe during the 1990s and at the beginning of this century. Often, institutions were the only social safety net available for families who were struggling to provide for their children.

“Sadly, it was often the children who bore the worst consequences of the transition. Many were sent into those institutions – some were even abandoned by their parents." -Tanya Kovacheva Programme Officer Child Abuse Programme, Bulgaria

Studies1 have shown that institutional care has a negative impact on the wellbeing of children. “There is a wealth of evidence that shows that children suffer tremendously – developmentally, cognitively, emotionally and

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soulless facilities,” says Delia Pop, into the institutions of course,” said director of programmes and global Florence. “But some Bulgarian not-for- advocacy for Hope and Homes for profit organisations finally Children. managed to get us into one. Then, As awareness of what was happening we saw it for ourselves – these large to children in institutions grew, many soulless institutions for children were people across Eastern and Western indeed wastelands – there were no Europe tried to help. Parents reached gardens, no beauty, no flowers, nothing. out offering to adopt children into It was terrible for the children growing their own families to give them a better up in them.” chance in life. In addition, donors began That same year, Oak started supporting funding work, in particular in Romania, projects in Bulgaria. In 2002, grant- at first to improve the institutions and making developed to support small scale eventually to empty them and close projects that included: child helplines at them down. local levels; prevention work in schools At the end of 2001, there were 12,609 and communities; and work with street children living in 165 institutions in children. At the time there was a state- wide dependency on institutions – it Bulgaria.2 Although work to support children in institutions was well seemed impossible to close them down. underway in Romania and other parts Nevertheless, the work gained Children in care of Eastern Europe, the problem had momentum. People, organisations institutions are not yet been addressed in Bulgaria. and donors joined efforts. more at risk of child sexual There were vested interests in keeping Oak’s portfolio gradually grew to abuse and the institutions going – they were include: exploitation. sources of employment at a time when • the establishment of a new child jobs were scarce, and they provided rights network, the National This is why Oak some sort of a solution for families in Network for Children, which acted began funding difficult circumstances. There were also as an advocate for change; alternatives to very few organisations with experience in transforming the child welfare • the closing of institutions for infants institutionalisation system, including promoting family- through Hope and Homes for Children for children in based care over outdated institutions. and For Our Children Foundation; need of care. In short, they were seen as a way of • the creation of a Learning Action life. For these and other reasons, there Partnership – which promoted and were few funders supporting deinstitu- coordinated evidence-based practice tionalisation initiatives in Bulgaria. and policy to reduce child sexual In addition, it is well known in the child exploitation and ensure safe abuse sector that children living in and transitions for children from care transitioning out of care are more at risk to life in the community; of child sexual abuse and exploitation. • the setting up of the Know-How It was essentially this that pushed Oak Centre on Alternative Care for to begin funding this issue. Children within the New Bulgarian In 2001, Florence Bruce was the director University to support the Bulgarian of Oak’s Child Abuse Programme. Government to take informed “It used to be said that if you can work decisions for replacing institutional in Bulgaria, you can work anywhere,” care with community-based services she said. “It was really tough ground. and families; and So, Oak took up this challenge.” The • research on violence in institutions Child Abuse Programme team began and the impact of institutional care investigating how Oak could best reach on children’s vulnerability to abuse, out and support as many children in specifically sexual abuse. institutions as possible. The work of Oak’s partners in Bulgaria Florence and the team visited Bulgaria has born rich fruit. Perhaps the greatest in 2001, looking to find people working reward for their various efforts came in in the child sector who Oak could 2010, when the Bulgarian Government partner with. “At first, we couldn’t get announced it would close down all 12 CHILD ABUSE

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institutions by 2025. The Government is of our partners. We feel privileged to currently on track to achieving this goal have been part of their efforts through – in December 2016, there were only our grant-making.” 12,609: 1,059 children in institutional care in the country, a huge drop from the figure number of of 12,609 some 15 years earlier.3 Many children living in children have returned to their families In loving memory institutions at the or have been placed in foster care. of Tanya Kovacheva end of 2001. In 2017, we lost our dear friend, “Deinstitutionalisation colleague and a warrior for children’s is not only about closing rights Tanya Kovacheva (featured in the 1,059: institutions. It is also about photo above). looking out for children’s best Tanya served Oak Foundation with number of interests, supporting them distinction for over a decade. She built the field of child protection in Bulgaria children living to be resilient, to take their and was instrumental in overseeing in institutional place in the community and care in December our grant-making to close down to enjoy a normal life and a 2016. institutions. She fought tirelessly for happy childhood." children’s rights, was an innovator in - Dani Koleva preventing sexual abuse and sexual Policy Director exploitation and a champion of National Network for Children deinstitutionalisation of children. In 2015, Tanya was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honour Today, Oak is celebrating more than 15 in recognition of her achievements. years of supporting partners in Bulgaria and the huge successes that have been We will remember Tanya for her warmth, achieved. Our partners have played an generosity of spirit, pragmatism and instrumental role in: transforming social ready smile. Tanya was what all Oak work practice; strengthening support staff aspire to be – appreciated by her to children and families; preventing all Trustees and colleagues, admired by her forms of violence against children; peers and beloved by her partners. We building and translating evidence into will miss her dearly. action; and building the capacity of See a video featuring Tanya partners and networks. shortly before her passing: “Every child deserves to grow up in a https://vimeo.com/214669298 loving home,” says CAP director Brigette De Lay. “Fifteen years after our first grant in Bulgaria, we know that thousands of children have been, and will be, spared the harm of institutional care. We know this is the result of the tireless leadership and determination References: Please see page 84 of this report. CHILD ABUSE 13

Oak Foundation’s partner Roditeli Association has been working in collaboration with Bulgarian not-for- profit organisations to promote positive models of male caregiving in parent- ing. This work is built on the MenCare campaign, which works to inspire men, their families and their communities to support men’s caregiving in the protec- tion of children against abuse, including sexual abuse. Virginia Ruan, head of communications for Oak Foundation and David Kiuranov, project coordinator for the Roditeli Association interviewed the children in the photos in this section of the Annual Report. The children and their fathers had participated in a Father’s Week Programme at their school, organised by the Roditeli Association. For the photo shoot, the children shared an object that represented what family meant to them. Here is what they had to say: 1. “This is a photo of my mom, dad and me. I made a birthday wish to have a photo that looks like it came from the previous century. For me, my family and I are in a circle of trust.” – Mia 2. “This is the key to my home where I live with my parents and my dog. My home is my life. I love my parents.” – Niya 3. “This is an old watch which was from my great, great grandfather. He made the watch himself – 500 years ago. When I forget, my father reminds me. He has told the story many times.” – Stefcho 4. “When my family and I travel, we collect bells like this one. I love to take trips with my family. My father participates in fathers' week at our school. I like to play with him too.” – Michail 5. “When the weather is good, I go on my scooter or on my bike to the park with my family. I love them very much.” – Dani 6. “My father gave me these crabs. I loved these crabs so much that the legs and the eyes fell off. My family sewed them back together.” – Ellie

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UNI Global Union, Pro Pride Approach Ltd Ending The World Players USD 246,706 (36 months) USD 250,000 (36 months) the sexual Association To help end violence against To promote the universal USD 204,970 (24 months) children by promoting positive prohibition and elimination exploitation To support the coordination gender norms and the active of all corporal punishment of the Sports and Rights engagement of men and boys of children. of children Alliance, a coalition of leading in the Amhara Region global organisations which are of Ethiopia. Avenir Social - Travail working together on human Social Suisse Bank Information Center USD 63,599 (24 months) rights, labour rights, children’s RADIX Fondation Suisse (BIC) To regulate the social work rights, anti-corruption and pour la promotion de la USD 757,000 (36 months) profession in Switzerland by sustainability in sport. santé To allow the BIC to influence USD 764,350 (36 months) federal law in order to ensure World Bank projects and To support RADIX to high-quality standards and policies to ensure the implement a national project care. implementation of measures Engaging which encourages adolescents to safeguard the protection to acquire positive life skills C-Sema USD 250,000 (36 months) of children. and to achieve healthy dating men and boys To prevent and respond to relationships. Dialogai all forms of violence against USD 245,545 (24 months) in ending Roditeli Association children in Tanzania. To provide social support and sexual abuse USD 375,803 (36 months) counselling to LGBT youth To prevent violence against Child Rights Connect USD 445,545 (36 months) though its La Refuge Service children by empowering CARE Deutschland – To provide core support to and to raise awareness about fathers and other male Luxembourg Child Rights Connect, a global the impact of discrimination USD 640,426 (36 months) caregivers in Bulgaria. on LGBT youth's health. children’s rights network. To support gender equality Sonke Gender Justice ECPAT International and decrease violence and Network Deafkidz International USD 243,291 (36 months) USD 100,000 (12 months) youth extremism within USD 549,940 (36 months) To empower deaf and To expand and strengthen Serbia, Albania, Croatia, To strengthen violence hard-of-hearing children and the ECPAT International Kosovo and Bosnia and prevention work with men young people in Jamaica and network in Eastern Europe Herzegovina. and boys in Uganda and South Africa to protect and enhance the capacity Tanzania, Sonke will partner Johns Hopkins University themselves against abuse. of civil society to combat USD 500,000 (36 months) with Promundo to the sexual exploitation To carry out a study to better disseminate the findings of Demetra Association of children. understand the factors in the International Men and USD 241,464 (36 months) Institute for Human early adolescence that either Gender Survey. To develop a community Rights and Business predispose young people to strategy for the prevention of USD 118,369 (9 months) sexual health risks or promote child sexual abuse by testing To identify and set in motion healthy sexuality. the Lucy Faithfull’s Eradicating a process to make Sport for Preventing Sexual Child Abuse toolkit in Lucy Faithfull Foundation southeast Bulgaria. Development and Peace USD 347,985 (36 months) violence, funders inclusive of human To test the Eradicating Child Disability Rights rights, and to increase their Sexual Abuse toolkit in Brazil protecting International alignment to the work on and Bulgaria. USD 100,000 (5 months) mega sporting events. children To help children with (and MARTA Center Tides Center without) disabilities who are USD 200,000 (36 months) currently living in institutions USD 500,000 (18 months) To prevent sexual, emotional ActionAid International To support the Code Blue in Eastern Europe fully and physical violence of boys Tanzania integrate into the community. Campaign that seeks to end and girls aged 13-16 years in USD 269,648 (36 months) impunity for sexual abuse by Latvia. To prevent acts of violence ENDA UN peacekeeping personnel. against children in schools and USD 250,000 (24 months) männer.ch communities in North Unjuga, To provide core support to Together for Girls USD 785,446 (36 months) USD 249,975 (15 months) Zanzibar. the African Movement of To continue the national Child and Youth Workers, To develop a report on what MenCare programme in American University works to prevent and respond which supports child workers Switzerland to change social USD 149,815 (30 months) in Africa. to sexual violence in norms by engaging men in To research opportunities to childhood, and to align the gender equality and increase global and national findings with the global increasing men's participation political priority for INSPIRE framework for and responsibility in children's addressing violence against violence prevention. lives. children, in particular sexual violence. CHILD ABUSE 15

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Graduate Institute Medical Research Council Positive Personal Skills World Childhood Geneva of South Africa in Society Foundation Foundation Inc. USD 130,144 (36 months) USD 100,000 (4 months) (Pernik) USD 450,190 (12 months) To establish an internship To enable Oak partners to USD 262,170 (36 months) To develop a benchmarking programme within Oak's Child attend the Sexual Violence To test the Lucy Faithfull’s tool to understand, measure Abuse Programme for second Research Initiative Forum in Eradicating Child Sexual and raise awareness of the year masters’ students of the 2017. Abuse toolkit in the issue of child sexual abuse Graduate Institute Geneva southwest of Bulgaria by globally, in collaboration with who have an interest in the National Network for developing a plan to prevent the Economist Intelligence child rights and child Children Association child sexual abuse through Unit. USD 400,205 (36 months) protection sectors. intervention. To protect children from World Education Inc. / Hope and Homes for violence, including sexual Raising Voices Bantwana Children violence, in Bulgaria. USD 1,000,000 (48 months) USD 735,000 (36 months) USD 900,000 (36 months) To prevent violence against To support community-based To put an end to institutional NEO Philanthropy children at schools, home and programming to strengthen care for children in Bulgaria (formerly Public Interest communities in Uganda. violence against children and Moldova. Projects) prevention and response USD 920,000 (36 months) SOS Children's Villages efforts across 20 schools and To provide core support to International Center for Latvia communities in two districts help implement the new USD 334,593 (48 months) Research on Women of Western Uganda. USD 600,000 (36 months) 2017-2019 strategy of the To ensure that children and To advance knowledge and Elevate Children Funders youth in Latvia grow up in a Youth Underground the evidence base of what Group. caring family environment USD 51,261 (12 months) works to end violence against either with biological or To provide core support to children in East Africa. New Venture Fund professional foster parents. Youth Underground, which USD 1,325,000 (18 months) works to prevent human To support national actions, International Rescue Terre des hommes trafficking through especially from the global Committee Foundation "Lausanne" awareness-raising, education USD 350,000 (12 months) South, to implement the in Hungary and advocacy. To test a new WHO manual INSPIRE framework, which USD 850,581 (36 months) that provides scalable, includes seven strategies To strengthen systems and low-intensity psychological that have shown success in professional competencies help for young adolescent reducing violence against to protect children’s refugees in Tanzania children. fundamental rights to be experiencing disabling levels protected from abuse across of psychosocial distress. Pathfinder International South East Europe. USD 627,462 (32 months) 7. “My great-grandfather London Citizens To reduce violence against Tides Center made this box. My mother (Citizens UK) children by improving primary USD 1,160,735 (60 months) and father gave it to me USD 70,168 (12 months) prevention and increasing To help implement the UN To secure policy changes response efforts in Guidelines for the Alternative for my birthday last year. It which open safe and legal households and at the Care of Children and childcare reminds me of how much I routes for child migrants community level in Zanzibar. related policies and practices love my family.” – Yoana (across Europe) and to at global, regional and country support communities to levels. 8. “My father gave me this increase local capacity to giraffe. My father lives in campaign for refugees and Tanzania. I have not seen support their integration in him in ten months. We the United Kingdom. This is a list of our grants approved in 2017. For a comprehensive list and full speak on the phone every descriptions, please visit our website at day. I miss him very much.” www.oakfnd.org – Mila 16 ENVIRONMENT Environment

Greenhouse gas emissions are causing adverse effects on land and in oceans. The mismanagement of marine resources has led to a global fisheries crisis and a severe loss

of biodiversity. Poaching threatens to cause the extinction the Rhino International © Save of wildlife.

In the Environment Programme, our grant-making focuses on three main areas: safeguarding a clean climate future for our children; cleaning up our oceans; and eliminating the illegal trade in endangered wildlife. ENVIRONMENT 17 © Karl Amman Foundation © PAMS

Reflections

In 137 years of record-keeping, 2016 has been a key advocate of these was the warmest year ever known. In improvements and an efficient Antarctica, the breakaway of a gigantic watchdog for their implementation. iceberg – the world’s largest – was a In the marine field, Oak has launched its 43 reminder of both the speed and the small-scale fisheries strategy, and the grants were made magnitude of the changes in the Earth’s new strategy on industrial scale fisheries climate. In addition, CO2 concentrations by the Environment started in earnest this year. The focus in the atmosphere are also directly Programme in is on Asia, the region of some of the impacting the pH levels of ocean water 2017, totalling world’s largest fishing fleets, seafood and changing ocean chemistry at an USD 42.41 million. and fish consumer countries, and unprecedented rate, putting marine where problems associated with illegal, life at risk. While it would be easy to unreported and unregulated fisheries be discouraged by such news, our are rampant. But it is also where team instead finds them a source of some countries, such as North Korea, inspiration. It strengthens our resolve. Taiwan and Japan, present promising Oak's partners are promoting and opportunities. contributing to important results in The global movement to stop plastic renewable energy transformation. pollution (#breakfreefromplastic) is China announced its intention to invest going ahead full steam. The campaign over USD 350 billion in renewable power involves major transformations in the capacity by 2020, while India has stated way that we produce, consume and that it will not need any new coal-fired recycle plastics, so it will take time plants for the foreseeable future. Oak's to see concrete results in the oceans. partner reports that Carbon Tracker Nonetheless, it is impressive to see “positive developments on coal use the increasing levels of engagement in China and India are likely to reduce of organisations, celebrities, cities and projected global carbon emissions concerned citizens in the campaign. growth (…) by roughly two to three billion tonnes by 2030 compared to Finally, in the area of illegal wildlife forecasts made a year ago”. This news trade, we have put in place some is indeed positive. key public and private partnerships to help disrupt the illegal trade of In May 2017, the European Commission elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. announced a key proposal to implement Implementation of the recently smart road tolls (penalising CO2 announced ban on the legal domestic emitters) as well as a road map to trade on elephant ivory in China is achieving zero-emission mobility. central to our efforts. We have devoted The Commission also reaffirmed this year's article in our Annual Report its commitment to set stricter CO2 to this sub-Programme. We hope it will standards for cars, vans and, for the give readers an insight to our partners' first time, trucks (in early 2018). Oak’s Find out more at work in this area. grantee Transport & Environment www.oakfnd.org 18 ENVIRONMENT

It is getting harder to be a wildlife criminal

According to an article in the South China Morning Post,1 Hong Kong customs officers seized HKD 120 million (about USD 15 million) in illegal endangered wildlife products, including ivory and rhino horn, in the first eight months of 2017. Overall, during this period, customs officers confiscated 3,300 smuggled endangered species products, weighing a total of 49 tonnes. To get through customs, smugglers had disguised pangolin scales as potato chips, concealed ivory in computer cases and even wrapped live turtles in socks before hiding them in luggage or in boxes.

“Guilty verdicts for wildlife crimes send a strong message to networks of poachers, smugglers, financers, middlemen, shippers and retailers – that the world values its natural heritage and wants the exploitation of wildlife to stop." - Alexandra Kennaugh Illegal Wildlife Trade Programme Officer Oak Foundation

Global awareness of the issue is growing. Civil society is responding to a rising wildlife trafficking industry estimated to be worth, globally, USD 23 billion a year.2 Wildlife crime laws are getting stronger. Domestic markets for ivory are closing and increased intelligence-led investigations are producing more convictions from Hanoi to Hong Kong to Harare. Indeed, heavier court sentences may even be causing the black market industry to adjust its tactics. © PAMS Foundation © PAMS ENVIRONMENT 19

Now, instead of smuggling in bulk via PAMS estimates that more than the oceans as they once did, traffickers 65 per cent (on average) of the major are sending protected species in small poaching syndicates operating in air parcels or with air passengers to Tanzania’s Ruaha, Katavi, Selous, minimise risk. In addition, online Tarangire-Manyara ecosystems, and shopping and e-commerce trade is more than 80 per cent of their sponsors mushrooming. Illegal trade routes are in the cities, including Dar es Salaam and splintering and becoming more complex. Dodoma, have been disrupted. This In turn, this means conservation and has dramatically reduced the killing law enforcement partners must also of elephants across Tanzania. respond with more target-led arrests Oak’s Illegal Wildlife Trade strategy to bring wildlife criminals to justice. will continue to champion organisations These include higher profile court cases, that disrupt wildlife trafficking networks trickier transboundary coordination and by using intelligence-led approaches, complicated transnational tactics – all while building law enforcement and in an environment where the risks are judiciary capacity. Our hope is that escalating considerably. our partners’ work will: strengthen Oak Foundation supports the dedicated civil society partnerships through and passionate networks of people formal and informal networks; build and not-for-profit organisations around capacity for effective law enforcement the world engaged in this fight to and prosecution; and ensure enough 65 % ensure wild populations of elephants resources to ultimately stop the and rhinos can thrive. This includes our poaching of wildlife. of the major grantees featured in this report: poaching syndicates PAMS Foundation, based in Tanzania; in some areas of the Environmental Investigation Improving governance Tanzania have been Agency, based in the United Kingdom; disrupted, thanks and the Wildlife Conservation The United Kingdom is the world’s to the work of Society’s Combatting Wildlife largest exporter of legal ivory, PAMS Foundation. Trafficking programme, which works which stimulates consumer demand internationally. internationally. In 2017, Oak supported the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and a consortium of organisations to harness widespread public support Disrupting traffickers for the UK Government to shut down Oak supports PAMS Foundation in Tan- domestic UK ivory markets. zania. As the only not-for-profit An established organisation in organisation to provide anti-poaching combatting illegal wildlife trade, the support across all major elephant EIA brings many actors on wildlife trade ecosystems in Tanzania, PAMS has policy together at an international level. been instrumental in bringing about We believe that the EIA’s collaborative a dramatic reduction of poaching in the approach is fundamental to building country in recent years. lasting solutions. Krissie Clark and the late Wayne Lotter, “In order to develop new policies to co-founders of PAMS, pioneered an benefit the conservation field, we help intelligence-led approach to cultivate trust between organisations investigating wildlife crime with the and people at both international and Tanzanian National and Transnational regional levels,” says Mary Rice, Serious Crimes Investigation Unit and executive director of EIA. the recently established Wildlife and Forest Crime Task Force. By coordinating Part of Oak’s illegal wildlife trade public agencies, this approach targets strategy is to help build global capacity high-level buyers, transporters and in a way that benefits the entire financers of poaching networks, who conservation sector. We support are becoming increasingly well organisations that seek to advance organised on a global scale. This has knowledge, foster innovation and led to a significant decline in poaching. 20 ENVIRONMENT © Christopher Parker/ Oak Foundation Oak Parker/ © Christopher Foundation © PAMS

leverage funding to serve this aim. Going forward This is done by: integrating Wildlife conservation efforts into existing Oak is optimistic that the efforts of Conservation poverty and crime reduction our partners will mean that future Society works programmes; sharing knowledge; and generations will grow up in a world globally to complementing private investments where elephant and rhino roam freely combat in conservation with leadership and and safely. Equally, by helping to weed trafficking collaboration. out criminal activity along the wildlife networks. trade supply chain, we hope that trailblazing conservation approaches will take root and flourish. Linking global capacity With programmes in nearly 60 countries, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Honouring works globally to combat trafficking networks. It does this by increasing Wayne Lotter commitment for and improving the Oak Foundation was deeply saddened capacity of intelligence-led law by the tragic death of Wayne Lotter enforcement. This is done by increasing in Tanzania in August 2017. expertise among enforcement authorities and institutions. Wayne Lotter (featured in the photo Oak supports WCS to strengthen civil above) was a co-founder of the PAMS society and government partnerships to Foundation, one of our conservation combat rhino horn trafficking networks partners in Tanzania. He was a between Africa and Asia. WCS’s Counter passionate man who dedicated his life Wildlife Trafficking Unit will scale up civil to saving wildlife and ensuring the end society/government partnerships on to an abominable illegal wildlife trade. both sides of the Indian Ocean. This will He died a hero on the frontlines of this help ensure strategic, intelligence-led battle – and remains an inspiration enforcement actions against suspected to us all. rhino horn traffickers operating between Mozambique, Vietnam and China. The need to combat the trafficking of rhino horn through Mozambique to southeast Asia is vital for the long-term survival of wild populations of African rhinoceros, particularly the critically endangered black rhino.

References: Please see page 84 of this report. ENVIRONMENT 21

The photographs throughout the Environment Programme section of the report represent the work of the Illegal Wildlife Trade sub-Programme. This includes wildlife in their natural free-roaming habitats, a method of transporting wildlife products, and end- user products made from rhino horn. Foundation © PAMS 22 ENVIRONMENT Grants ©Save the Rhino International ©Save

ClimateWorks Instituto Clima WWF International Climate Foundation, USA e Sociedade USD 695,772 (36 months) Change USD 800,000 (24 months) USD 1,146,671 (36 months) To assist and accelerate To support organisations To support stronger Brazilian China’s economic transition 350.org and initiatives that work to civil society action around towards a low-carbon USD 1,500,000 (36 months) ensure the implementation climate change and other development path and to To stop or delay new fossil of the Paris Agreement of the areas of social change. guide the ‘One Belt, One fuel infrastructure projects by UNFCCC. Road’ Initiative in a green supporting civil society and International Trade and sustainable direction. local groups to keep fossil Dogwood Initiative Union Confederation fuels in the ground. USD 450,000 (36 months) USD 500,000 (24 months) To support the Dogwood To initiate or support and Asset Owners Disclosure Initiative to limit the document a just transition Project (AODP) expansion of fossil fuels in to low and zero emissions USD 150,000 (24 months) British Columbia. transport and mobility in at Marine To bring together the existing least five major cities AODP data into a single European Climate worldwide. Alaska Marine unified disclosure framework Foundation Conservation Council and database and integrate USD 250,000 (12 months) Natural Resources USD 600,000 (36 months) this information into a new To provide core support to the Defense Council, To promote the health and organisation. European Climate Foundation Inc. (NRDC) resilience of Alaska’s marine to develop strategic USD 100,000 (12 months) ecosystems and the C40 Cities Climate communications capacity to To reduce air pollution in Leadership Group traditional coastal help shape the narrative for Ahmedabad, a city of communities that rely USD 3,000,000 (36 months) climate action. seven million people in India, on them. To enable megacities in Asia through public health and to lead and accelerate actions European Climate clean energy solutions, with As You Sow to reduce greenhouse gas Foundation strategies that can be scaled USD 400,000 (36 months) USD 4,200,000 (36 months) emissions. up to other cities, states and To develop and lead a plastic To support the European the national level. solutions investor alliance. Center for Study of Climate Foundation’s mission Science, Technology to build European leadership New Venture Fund California Environmental and Policy (CSTEP) on decarbonisation to secure USD 550,000 (24 months) Associates (two grants) USD 699,966 (36 months) a cleaner, safer and healthier To build a strong, diverse USD 75,000 (7 months) To provide core support to future. movement behind state- To develop a new strategic CSTEP to carry out level adoption of progressive plan for Oak’s small-scale independent, high-quality and European Climate climate laws in the US to fisheries programme, timely research on key climate Foundation accelerate the uptake of including its accompanying USD 7,000,000 (36 months) and energy policy reforms. electric vehicles. monitoring, evaluation, To develop a European and ClimateWorks learning and communications South East Asian campaign Shakti Sustainable framework. Foundation, USA to help countries meet their Energy Foundation USD 2,000,000 (48 months) Paris climate targets. USD 300,000 (24 months) Duke University To support the To support energy USD 480,001 (29 months) implementation of the Kigali Instituto Centro de Vida conservation and efficiency To work with civil society USD 703,833 (34 months) Cooling Efficiency Program by in India, with a focus on policy organisations to map and To support a solid, reliable helping developing countries design and stakeholder design a needs assessment and recognised body of create standards and labels to capacity building for timely of small-scale fisheries. experts and activists in Brazil improve the energy efficiency policy implementation. of refrigerators and air committed to the conditioners. environmental and economic issues relating to energy production. ENVIRONMENT 23 © Karl Amman tion Founda © Naomi Doak/Royal

Environmental Justice Pacific Environment WWF International International Wildlife Foundation USD 305,822 (24 months) USD 105,000 (12 months) Trust USD 905,580 (36 months) To help establish US domestic To undertake a study in USD 875,000 (36 months) To assist the Environmental and international shipping Zhejiang and Hainan in China To build capacity for effective Justice Foundation and regulations that protect the to identify challenges and law enforcement and collaborators in Taiwan and Arctic marine environment opportunities for smallscale prosecution of wildlife crimes Korea to harness political and the subsistence practices fisheries. by leveraging US legislative opportunities to create of local indigenous tools against transnational positive change on labour communities. criminal organisations, policy and illegal, unregulated exploiting investigative and unreported fishing. Rockefeller Philanthropy information on criminal Advisors, Inc. networks and working Fondation Ensemble USD 1,950,000 (36 months) Illegal Wildlife alongside US officials. USD 1,595,745 (60 months) To rapidly escalate the To scale up efforts to availability of philanthropic Trade Natural Resources sustainably secure fishing funding through a funders' Defense Council, Inc. resources and conserve collaborative to organisations Environmental (NRDC) marine biodiversity in that can work strategically and Investigation Agency USD 200,000 (24 months) Mozambique. internationally to meet and USD 91,809 (18 months) To assist the Chinese challenge the plastics crisis. To build global capacity to Government in implementing Funding Fish tackle illegal wildlife trade by its ban on domestic elephant USD 458,807 (41 months) The Nature Conservancy working to secure the closure ivory sales and to reduce To support Funding Fish with USD 1,000,000 (36 months) of domestic ivory markets in pressure on other illegally two endeavours – a campaign To tackle illegal, unregulated the UK. traded wildlife species focused on implementing the and unreported fishing at a including rhinos and Common Fisheries Policy in global level with a special Frankfurt Zoological pangolins. the EU, and a research and focus on policy in Japan. Society policy project to understand USD 200,200 (12 months) Tier im Recht the complexities of fisheries To support the USD 198,020 (36 months) access agreements between The Ocean Conservancy co-management model of the To improve wildlife crime law USD 800,000 (36 months) the EU and coastal states. Gonarezhou Conservation in German-speaking European To increase the US Arctic's Trust and its work in countries and to establish a Greenpeace Fund, Inc resilience in the face of Gonarezhou National Park, global hub for legal expertise USD 900,000 (36 months) climate change by preserving Zimbabwe's second-largest around protecting wildlife. To stop the flow of plastic important safeguards that national park. into the oceans by calling on protect the region from Tikki Hywood Trust global fast-moving consumer renewed oil and gas Gorongosa Restoration USD 192,250 (36 months) goods producers around the exploration. Project Inc To establish a pangolin world to phase out single-use USD 600,000 (24 months) rehabilitation programme. Wildlife Conservation To establish more than plastics. Wildlife Conservation Society two million hectares of Society International Collective USD 399,839 (36 months) protected area and buffer USD 1,353,123 (24 months) in Support of To support Alaska Natives zone in central Mozambique To strengthen civil society and Fishworkers in articulating their needs as part of restoring a large government partnerships to USD 94,255 (12 months) relating to sustainable contiguous landscape combat rhino horn trafficking To strengthen the marine mammal hunting – the damaged from two decades networks between Africa and sustainability of small-scale cornerstone of the food and of civil war and ensuring a China. fisheries in the context of economic security of Arctic better life for local people. food security and poverty indigenous communities. eradication. 24 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS Housing and Homelessness

In the Housing and Homelessness Programme, we focus on preventing homelessness by funding sustainable solutions that improve the economic and social wellbeing of marginalised youth, adults and families. We have three priorities: promoting economic self-sufficiency; increasing the availability and supply of affordable housing; and preventing homelessness.

Grants within the programme are wide-ranging in size. We partner with organisations working both nationally and locally in Boston, New York and Philadelphia in the United © Michael Winship States and in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and South Wales in the United Kingdom. Within each location, we aim to fund projects relevant to the three priorities mentioned above. In addition, we have adopted specific objectives that recognise particular issues in some of the localities where we make grants. HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS 25 © Sam Youngman

Reflections

2017 was another busy year for the allocated temporary accommodation in Housing and Homelessness Programme unfamiliar locations. (HHP). There have been recent Looking outwards, despite challenging changes in our team – at the end of economic and political times, our 35 the year Susanne Bjork joined us as our partners in the both the UK and the grants were made fourth programme officer. Her work US continue to achieve important policy with Crisis UK, as well as refugee camps by the Housing changes. During the year we talked to in Serbia and the International Women’s and Homelessness some of those who led on these Peace Service in Palestine, is directly Programme in victories and asked them to tell us what relevant to our work. 2017, totalling they thought were the keys to success – USD 24.10 million. In addition, we began an internship collaboration features throughout engagement with Professor Suzanne all of these conversations. Often Fitzpatrick’s team at Heriot Watt referenced in philanthropy, perhaps University, where the Institute for Social the word “collaboration” is becoming Policy, Housing, Equalities Research overused, with little thought to what (I-SPHERE) leads homelessness research it means in practice. in the UK and beyond. Nonetheless, these conversations tell Each internship will last for six months. us that strong, deep and sustained It allows interns to work from home and collaboration is key to successfully join the team at Oak's offices in the bringing about change in these London office regularly. This work challenging times. True collaboration pattern enables interns to be drawn requires power-sharing and a from across the UK, reflecting the willingness to work with those who footprint of the programme. The might ordinarily be the opposition. We opportunity is being publicised through also learned that basing campaigns on university networks. universally accepted principles or values As well as providing research capacity is an effective way of helping to change for the team, interns carry out research people’s perspectives. projects which are relevant to the HHP In this year's Annual Report, our theme strategy. Our first intern, Lynne article focuses on this subject. We will McMordie lives in Northern Ireland. publish more on our website in 2018 She holds a Masters from Queens around the collaborative work of University Belfast and has worked several other partners. This has led to for several not-for-profit organisations. ground-breaking changes – bringing Lynne took a career break and this improved housing opportunities to internship provides her with an those who need them most. interesting opportunity to continue her work in the homelessness sector.

Lynne’s research will explore the lived Find out more at experience of being homeless and being www.oakfnd.org 26 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS

Collaboration makes for powerful change

United Kingdom The Homeless Persons Act was established in the United Kingdom 40 years ago, following a decade of campaigning. This act sets out what councils across the UK must do to help homeless people and gives the right to accommodation to some households. While local authorities have a duty to find accommodation for homeless families and those assessed as 'vulnerable', those who fall outside of these groups receive limited or perhaps no help at all. Over the last four decades this has affected single homeless people the most, and homeless organisations have encountered many difficulties in addressing the consequences of the exclusion of single people in the Homeless Persons Act. This is why Crisis, a UK-based homelessness organisation that focuses on single homeless people, led a campaign to change the law. Three years of campaigning led to victory – the Homelessness Reduction Act, which came into force in April 2018. Under the new act, councils are obliged to step in and offer some help to all people – single or with families – threatened with losing their home.

“We are pleased with the results of the Crisis campaign, which will doubtlessly benefit the lives of many people who experience homelessness for years to come.” - Louise Montgomery Programme Officer, Housing and Homelessness Programme

“This was an example of a well-thought out campaign that has resulted in changing UK legislation to reflect the principle that everyone deserves help,” says Louise. © Toby Hopkins © Toby HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS 27

Matt Downie, director of policy and despite the extra work. Together, they external affairs at Crisis, described the identified a set of objectives, points for new act as radically shifting the way we potential compromise and fundamental see homeless people. “Now, we can no principles not open for negotiation. longer see the homeless as either The result of this collaborative exercise deserving or undeserving of support,” was a draft law with credibility, he says. “Embedded in the law is a supported by all the key actors in the universal principle – that everyone who field of homelessness. Crucially, it was is homeless should get some assistance, not seen as a Crisis campaigning tool and that everyone threatened with but as an independent analysis of the homelessness should be offered help problem and a proposed solution, to prevent it.” complete with ready-made draft So what made the Crisis campaign legislation. Matt makes the point that a success? Firstly, according to Matt, while this consensus approach to it was driven and evidenced by people campaigning is powerful, the lead with personal experience of homeless- organisation must be willing to ness. A group of these people presented relinquish control to achieve it. themselves as homeless to 87 local Also key to its success was the fact that authorities across the UK, describing Crisis was able to persuade Conservative Crisis UK's scenarios based on their own Minister of Parliament (MP) Bob campaign brought experiences. This exercise provided Blackman to present the new legislation. about the powerful evidence – that they were Mr Blackman proved to be an effective Homelessness not offered any help in many cases. champion and was instrumental Reduction Act, Sometimes they were even treated in obtaining support from ministers which came into in an off-hand or inhumane way. and fellow MPs from all parties. force in April 2018. Nonetheless, their compelling stories captured media attention. As the campaign progressed, opportunities United States arose where individuals with experience The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania of homelessness were able to speak is a state-wide coalition providing directly with government ministers. leadership and a common voice for One woman went to the House of policies, practices and resources to Commons to talk to politicians directly ensure that all Pennsylvanians, from Heathrow Airport, where she was especially those with low incomes, have sleeping each night. This involvement access to safe, decent and affordable of people with personal experience, homes. Over three years the Alliance according to Matt, provided real and used an Oak grant to build a campaign immediate evidence, which was key to to establish ongoing funding for the the success of the campaign. State Housing Trust Fund – which is a “In addition, Crisis set about drafting the designated form of revenue for new law rather than waiting until we had affordable housing. political support,” he says. “We did this The Housing Alliance wanted state by bringing together acknowledged legislation to secure income from the experts, including lawyers, academics real estate transfer tax (projected and not-for-profit organisations.” Crisis to grow to USD 25 million a year) for also made sure that stakeholders affordable housing initiatives. Its work who might resist the change were resulted in a huge success – legislation involved, such as those who were was passed in 2015 and initial funding concerned that opening a debate about of USD 12.5 million was made available housing legislation in times of austerity in 2017. “This was the first new might result in a contraction of funding for affordable housing in the government responsibilities. state for many years,” says Liz Hersh, The proposed changes in law meant former director of the Housing Alliance, additional responsibility for local who led the campaign. “In addition, the authorities. Crisis tackled this head funding is flexible, recognising the need on by identifying local authority for diverse solutions and local decisions representatives who realised the on how money is spent.” benefits these changes would bring, 28 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS © Hazel Stanley © Hazel

“The campaign was successful because of Philadelphia. Together they joined the Alliance established a grassroots hands to promote funding for the The Housing coalition made up of local organisations Housing Trust Fund. As a result of their Alliance of and individuals,” she says. “We were efforts, the State Housing Trust Fund Pennsylvania's careful to ensure that all parts of the was expanded. campaign state of Pennsylvania were represented. resulted in the This meant that everyone – from expansion of the grassroots organisers to for-profit “This campaign State Housing developers – was represented. The succeeded in uniting Trust Fund. campaign bridged the traditional divides politicians representing between urban, suburban and rural many people in Pennsylvania This will benefit communities.” people in need around the issue of affordable When planning its strategy, the Alliance of affordable housing. The result will bring took advice from marketing experts. housing. widespread changes to the The team learned that outlining the problem and proposing a solution are lives of individuals and benefit not always effective. Instead, to garner Pennsylvanian communities for support for affordable housing, it based many years to come." its campaign on the generally accepted American value statement that 'if you - Amanda Beswick work hard and play by the rules you Director, Housing and should be able to afford a home'. This Homelessness Programme is often not true. In reality, not everyone who works hard and plays by the rules can afford a home. The campaign succeeded in changing the perception How changes in law can of the need for affordable housing work for those most in among the public. need In addition, by building its campaign on this simple message, it increased These examples from both sides bi-partisan political support. On the of the Atlantic are success stories political front, there were many people in the fight against homelessness. involved. This included highly respected They demonstrate how well-crafted moderate Republican Legislator Tom campaigns can bring about changes in Killion, who partnered with Democrats law and policy and have wide-reaching on the campaign. In the State Senate, ramifications for people’s lives. Senator Elder Vogel, a Republican dairy We intend to outline other examples farmer, represented a rural part of the of our partners' work on our website. state. Democrat Senator Shirley Kitchen Check out our highlights page on (one of just two African American www.oakfnd.org throughout 2018! women to be elected to the State Senate) represented a neighbourhood HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS 29 © Stephen King © Stephen © Toby Hopkins © Toby

Photo art UK Angeles. She did a series of self-portraits using shop windows and reflective Crisis UK's The photos throughout the Housing and surfaces. Homelessness Programme section of online gallery the 2017 report were taken by people features work of who have experienced homelessness. Hazel – author of image on p28 photographers who They are displayed in Crisis' online art Since engaging in Crisis services, Hazel have experienced gallery. took up several courses, including one homelessness. We in photography. She has taken many have featured some We have included some of the stories photos and her photo was taken on the examples of their of the artists here. streets of Sheffield. work in this year's Annual Report.

Michael – author of image on p24 “For this photo I had Inspired by British amateur https://www. photographer Jimmy Forsyth, to lay on the ground. crisis.org.uk/get-in- Michael Winship captured this image I wrote a poem as a result volved/art-in-crisis- of a street in Newcastle. He walks past of this course, which I have gallery/ it every day and has slept rough on this called 'Memories'. Because street in a shop doorway on a number photography made me realise of occasions. how important it is to see "I decided to use Photoshop to really different images as they are. boost the colours/saturation so that it would resemble a more attractive place The memories I can take to to sleep whilst hanging onto an area my grave, whereas money is with a little edge," he says. only worth something while you are alive. So my quote Toby – author of image on p26 for this image is 'feel what’s In "Roman Home Door", Toby Hopkins around you and capture those tried to create a self-portrait using his memories'." own shadow cast on one of the doors - Hazel Stanley at the base of the Tyne Bridge in Artist Newcastle.

The image was inspired by photographer "The reason why I took this photo was Vivien Maier, an American street because I like the texture that can be photographer. Maier worked for about created visually," she says. "I was also 40 years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's experimenting with taking pictures North Shore, pursuing photography in from different angles." her spare time. During her lifetime she took more than 150,000 photographs, Oak and the Housing and Homelessness primarily of the people and architecture team congratulates all of the of New York City, Chicago and Los photographers on their achievements. 30 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS Grants oungman © Leroy Riley © Leroy © Sam Y

Working Chance Generation Rent Philadelphia VIP Economic USD 1,000,000 (48 months) USD 226,674 (36 months) USD 1,000,000 (48 months) self-sufficiency To provide core support to To expand Generation Rent’s To provide core support to Working Chance to expand its campaigns in London and Philadelphia VIP, a pro bono Citizens Advice service delivery into the North nationally, with a focus on legal services agency Staffordshire North of England and to develop its combating ‘no fault’ providing free legal & Stoke on Trent care leavers service. evictions, limiting rent rises, advocacy and representation USD 90,856 (12 months) improving security of tenure to low-income people to To enable the North and supporting renters to prevent homelessness and Staffordshire Financial exercise their rights against preserve income. criminal landlords. Inclusion Group in the UK to Homelessness Refugee and Migrant research and implement a Glasgow Homelessness Centre (RMC) business development plan. prevention Network (GHN) USD 500,000 (48 months) Good Faith Partnership USD 375,000 (48 months) To provide core support to USD 123,750 (5 months) Anawim To provide core support to RMC, which supports asylum To scope the affordable credit USD 499,345 (36 months) GHN, which works with and seekers, migrants and landscape across the UK. To provide mental health, for people affected by refugees in Wolverhampton domestic abuse and sexual homelessness in Glasgow, and Birmingham. Homeless Advocacy violence support services to Scotland. Project (HAP) vulnerable women in the UK Tides Foundation USD 324,000 (36 months) to prevent them from Govan Law Centre (GLC) USD 493,440 (48 months) To expand HAP’s SOAR Project becoming homeless. USD 1,250,000 (60 months) To build relationships to secure rapid Supplemental To provide core support to between people living in Security Income benefits Butler Family Fund GLC to support its strategic mobile homes (also known as (SSI/SSDI) for vulnerable USD 1,762,000 (48 months) plan and mission. manufactured homeowners) individuals in Philadelphia. To capture savings from the in the US, who number more criminal justice system in the Hestia Housing and than 9 million mainly Social Market Foundation US and redirect towards Support low-income people in USD 76,883 (12 months) USD 157,501 (34 months) housing and other services approximately 50,000 To implement a new model To influence policy makers in that support prisoner re-entry. land-lease sites. the UK to implement of work throughout Hestia changes to the benefit Crisis UK Housing and Support, which Women's Aid sanctions system. USD 797,523 (36 months) will enable Hestia staff to USD 627,245 (36 months) To support local authorities work in a more clearly defined To provide support to Women Against Abuse in the UK and others to and intentional way with domestic abuse services (WAA) effectively interpret and vulnerable people. in the United Kingdom USD 800,000 (48 months) implement their new legal so that they become more To enable WAA to develop, duties within the Lambeth Law Centre sustainable and their USD 370,888 (36 months) implement and embed a new Homelessness Reduction Act. organisational and financial To ensure people from the Economic Empowerment stability are increased. Project aimed at reducing Cymorth Cymru European Economic Area homelessness and increasing USD 119,611 (24 months) receive access to specialist long-term economic stability To establish an evidence base legal representation to for women and children who to strengthen the case for prevent their forcible experience domestic abuse. investment in supported removal because they are housing and community rough sleeping. support services across Wales, which demonstrate the positive impact on public services (such as health, housing, criminal justice). HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS 31 © Ann Fraser

Empty Homes Philadelphia Association Institute for Voluntary Increasing USD 100,000 (12 months) of Community Action Research the supply To enable Empty Homes, Development USD 113,945 (36 months) a UK-based not-for-profit Corporations (PACDC) To improve practice and of low-income organisation, to campaign for USD 1,125,000 (60 months) strategic learning in UK changes in policy that increase To provide core support to foundations by funding an housing the supply of affordable PACDC, based in the US, to Evaluation Roundtable to Center for Community homes from vacant properties achieve the goals set out in provide foundation leaders Change and tackle the waste of empty its strategic plan. with an opportunity to refine homes. and deepen their thinking and USD 800,000 (60 months) Trust for London practice. To provide core support to the Enterprise Community USD 1,331,191 (36 months) Housing Trust Fund Project, Partners To improve the quality, which works to secure sources USD 100,000 (14 months) stability and affordability of of public funding to develop To raise up voices, develop private sector housing for and support low-income narratives and broaden low-income households in housing in the United States. coalitions engaged in London. Other affordable housing. Center for Community UK Community Progress Homes for Families Foundations USD 100,000 (12 months) USD 328,755 (36 months) USD 1,734,250 (36 months) To strengthen residents’ and To end family homelessness Learning To address local housing and grassroots activists’ abilities in Massachusetts by Coaching Inside and Out homelessness issues in to revitalise their amplifying the voices of USD 81,094 (12 months) specific regions of the UK neighbourhoods. homeless families to highlight To provide evidence on the by providing grassroots Citizens Housing and systemic barriers and gaps in efficacy of coaching as a tool organisations with Planning Association services. to improve outcomes for development grants to build (CHAPA) New Economics people, including increased sustainability, develop ideas USD 1,500,000 (60 months) Foundation housing stability and and deploy innovative solutions. To provide core support to USD 349,975 (36 months) economic wellbeing. CHAPA, based in the US, to To increase the amount Community Service achieve the goals set out in of good-quality, low-cost Society of New York its strategic plan. housing in the UK. (CSS) Clarifi New Venture Fund USD 400,000 (36 months) USD 2,741,049 (39 months) USD 1,499,859 (36 months) To incorporate issues relating To continue to preserve To support Funders for to homelessness into CSS’s affordable housing and Housing and Opportunity, annual survey of low-income improve people’s health a new funders collaborative New Yorkers, in order to: drive by improving housing to improve the lives of more its legislative agenda; conditions in thousands of than 12 million renter house- influence programme design; privately owned rowhouses holds who pay more than half and provide data to help in Philadelphia. of their income on housing or advance progressive solutions. Corporation for who are homeless. Supportive Housing (CSH) USD 1,200,000 (60 months) To provide core support to the This is a list of grants approved in 2017. CSH to enable it to meet the For a comprehensive list and full objectives of its strategic plan descriptions, please visit our website at and mission. www.oakfnd.org 32 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS International Human Rights

Since 1948 the international community has developed an extensive body of international legal standards and institutions that relate to the promotion and protection of human rights. However, there remains a gap between the theory and the realisation of these rights in practice. © David Mirzoeff 2017 Mirzoeff © David In the International Human Rights Programme (IHRP), we work with partners to: end impunity for the gross violations of human rights; uphold prohibitions on arbitrary detention and torture; protect human rights defenders at risk; and multiply and amplify influential voices on IHRP global priorities. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 33 © Conectas © Criminal Justice Network

Reflections

In previous years we could assert with public security. This comes in the face some confidence that the programme of galloping crime and insurgency – had secured significant advances in with the knock-on effect of suppressing human rights protection – from the public protest. Entrenched vested 55 prosecution of gross abusers to the interests grow ever more resistant to grants were dismantling of abusive detention those who seek to hold them to account regimes and the repudiation of torture – whether through the press, the ballot made by the as a legitimate function of state. In box or even the courts. International addition, we had nurtured the growth Human Rights That consistency – across all regions and professionalisation of partners all Programme in where we work – is striking. Yet, while around the world. 2017, totalling we strive for incremental gains, our USD 25.16 million. We can no longer assert that claim paramount interest now lies in with equal confidence. defending the expression and legitimacy Certainly, advances have been made, of civic activism. That fundamental goal but they are increasingly modest in has guided our work over the past year. both ambition and scale. Grantees And in the face of these challenges, have secured impressive individual civil society remains both defiant and accomplishments, including signature effective. court wins (especially in Strasbourg) and some policy advances. But on the whole, these wins have been diffuse and episodic, seldom delivering systemic change. Instead, victory is now measured in terms of preventing harm: stalling, frustrating and disrupting retrograde laws and policy. In all places where we operate – including the United States, the European Union, Russia, Brazil, India and Myanmar – the human rights community is on the defensive. Tactical Tech is working to raise Our detractors urge an increasingly P32: awareness of the threats posed by our muscular response to a dangerous increasingly online lives. world. The state is urged to wield greater power in its pursuit of national P33: In the past 20 years, Brazil’s security and the defence of its borders, prison population has grown including from unregulated people 400 per cent. Our partners, such as flows. In Brazil, Russia and Myanmar Conectas and the Criminal Justice there are insistent demands for a tough Network, work to address this and raise Find out more at “law-and-order” approach to guarantee awareness around this issue. www.oakfnd.org 34 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Are you talking to me?

In an affluent São Paolo shopping mall, puzzled shoppers are greeted with a curious scene. In the middle of the mall, among the shop windows showcasing phones and fashion, there is a large cage. Shoppers are invited to enter the space and put on a set of 360 degrees virtual reality goggles. Then, their world is transformed into a local prison cell. Through the virtual headset, they experience firsthand this alien environment, guided by an ex-prisoner who recounts his dismal experience of incarceration. It is shocking and confronting, but engaging.

“Many people are unaware of the dreadful, violent and unsanitary conditions in Brazilian prisons. Disease is rife. The sewer systems often clog. There can be 40 people living in a room designed for 12. And … you might never even be convicted. It takes years sometimes to get a hearing.” - Adrian Arena Director, International Human Rights Programme

Often, people have never previously witnessed this appalling national reality and are clearly troubled by what they see. Some begin to question long-held views on the merit of Brazil’s mass incarceration policy, which has seen its prison population climb to the fourth highest in the world – and at a great social cost. In a further surprise, shoppers come face to face with the narrator, the ex-prisoner. It is at this point that their assumption about who and why people end up on the “inside” is turned on its head. For some, it is an epiphany. © Criminal Justice Network INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 35

In the past 20 years, Brazil’s prison States. Opportunity Agenda’s messaging population has grown 400 per cent, emphasised: deeply held US values of yet the country’s actual population has fairness and opportunity for all; flawed increased by only 36 per cent in the immigration policies as the problem same period.1 According to the National and not immigration itself; specific calls Council of Justice, as of February 2017 for common-sense solutions that allow there were over 600,000 people everyone to contribute; and its call for incarcerated in Brazil. Among them, action – moving communities and the more than 220,000 are still awaiting trial country forward, together. – that waiting period varies between 172 and 974 days. 2, 3 This virtual example of prison life “Communications and from the Criminal Justice Network in culture have the power Brazil is typical of a wave of innovations to move hearts and minds in in communications currently being ways that facts and advocacy explored by Oak’s partners around often cannot." the world. The many objectives are, - Opportunity Agenda in essence, simple: to engage and persuade new audiences around issues of injustice. For more In Britain, Liberty campaigns for human For too long, many human rights information on rights. In the past, its public positioning organisations followed a traditional the virtual prison, reflected its legal niche and support work model that went something like check out this link: base of lawyers. Its current pitch is, this: conduct rigorous research; publish http://prisaonaoe- however, discernibly different, invoking a report; secure press coverage; and justica.org/ a national self-belief around kindness, target relevant policy makers. Mission courtesy and fairness – which are widely accomplished. Or to experience regarded as a central to British culture. it yourself, go to But in an age of declining traction with By asserting those traits as essential this link: https:// both media and policy elites, activists features of public policy, Liberty seeks www.youtube.com/ have had to think creatively about how to shift the prevailing negative public watch?v=ulURfIiX- to frame, disseminate and promote calls discourse on immigration and minority for change. And in doing so, how to rights. “Keep Britain Kind” is the public 2kE establish wider constituencies of face of this values-based campaign, support beyond a narrow circle of aimed at ensuring a more open, tolerant ‘natural’ allies. Britain and reasserting “decency, compassion and fairness” in UK politics. Human rights principles and Framing the message international law will always underpin these campaigns. But their presentation, Around the world, human rights activists through a positive affirmation of core increasingly recognise the limitations of values, speaks to a wider audience and legal and fact-heavy policy arguments builds support for those who remain to promote change. Through public undeclared in the swirling debates opinion polling and deployment of around immigration, identity and cognitive science, they are now framing culture. their messages to ensure greater emotional resonance with a wider audience. Central to this approach is an appeal to commonly-held values. As the communications hub P34: Through a virtual headset, Opportunity Agenda knows, customers in a Brazilian shopping mall “Communications and culture have are invited to experience firsthand the power to move hearts and minds conditions in a prison cell. This is part in ways that facts and advocacy often of the work by the Criminal Justice cannot.” To this end, it helped train field Network in a bid to raise awareness groups to counter a powerful fear-based of the shocking conditions of prisons anti-immigrant narrative in the United in the country. 36 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS © David Mirzoeff 2017 Mirzoeff © David

Telling the story the latest in digital consumer products – tablets, fitness trackers or facial Tactical Tech Other grantees have started to deploy recognition software. But as visitors developed the video, music, street art, film, cartoons, enter, the Glass Room prompts Glass Room technology and immersive theatre reflection, experimentation and play, exhibit in London. to engage with new audiences, by revealing how much of our personal It aims to reveal especially the young. Satire and humour data is captured by these same devices. how much of our are especially effective connectors, and The exhibit challenges us to consider the personal data new partnerships with the creative collection, ownership and deployment is captured by sector are delivering real dividends. of that data. In response it also shows us digital consumer In Chechnya in the North Caucasus, a how to minimise our digital footprint. products. It shows recent wave of arrests and detentions us how to have resulted in the extrajudicial killings minimise our of scores of gay men. Our partners have digital footprint. collectively denounced these abuses Independent media and courageously organised the rescue Even the best-designed communication of those at greatest risk. But, unusually, strategy will fail if there is no public efforts were also made to inform the platform from which to amplify Russian public of the scale and horror of campaigns. While activists what was happening. A brief animation traditionally relied on the mainstream film, narrating the story of one victim press to give life to their reports, that and produced by LGBT Network was avenue of influence is increasingly widely circulated on social media. closing. We are finding that for various The clip’s innovative design and reasons, the voices of many activists are profound personal testimony garnered being frozen out of mainstream press. attention in a way that no report could In response, we are exploring have, thus prompting public discussion independent media outlets to elevate on the violence – official and public – civil society concerns. Our engagement directed at LGBTI people. has a twofold purpose: to raise grantee Mixing art and technology, Berlin-based voices; and to ensure citizens’ rights grantee Tactical Tech is shifting the to information. To this end, we are narrative around digital security to raise partnering with independent media awareness of the threats posed by our outlets to report straight news, and increasingly online lives. In partnership also to pursue opinion, explanatory and with Mozilla, it developed the Glass investigative journalism. Room exhibit in London, an immersive In Russia, we support Media Zona, which ‘tech store with a twist’. At first glance, reports on criminal justice. It informs by the exhibit looks like a store offering INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 37 © TDavid Mirzoeff 2017 Mirzoeff © TDavid 2017 Mirzoeff © David reporting court stories which, given their Raising awareness political sensitivity, would not ordinarily be covered. Through games, quizzes and of human rights Independent media features, it educates readers about their outlets are best People need to understand their rights rights (what to do if arrested? Can I ask poised to elevate in order to celebrate and protect them. for a lawyer? etc). It investigates abuses civil society While clear, engaging communication in the penitentiary system, including concerns. By must speak to existing supporters, it the criminal exploitation of inmates by raising our must also reach out to those in the prison staff. It is fulfilling a vital public partners' voices, middle who are open to hearing another function. we hope to ensure point of view. In Britain, we support Rights Info – an citizens' rights This is why we are working to build a award-winning outlet which explains to information. base of knowledgeable, engaged human topical news stories through a human rights advocates and a broader base of rights lens. Through accurate, accessible support for our work. and engaging online content, it seeks to counter negative press comments on human rights and, at the same time, promotes education.

P36 and P37: Digital consumer products – tablets, fitness trackers or facial recognition software – have transformed our world. But many people are not aware how much of our personal data is captured by these same devices. Tactical Tech is working to raise awareness of the threats posed by our increasingly online lives. In partnership with Mozilla, it developed the Glass Room exhibit in London which challenges us to consider the collection, References: Please see page 84 of this report. ownership and deployment of that data. 38 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS Grants

European Human Russian Justice Initiative American University Ending Rights Advocacy Centre (RJI) Washington College impunity (EHRAC) USD 489,362 (36 months) of Law USD 450,000 (36 months) To provide core support to USD 210,000 (36 months) for gross To provide core support to RJI to protect and assist the To support the efforts of the EHRAC to challenge impunity victims of human rights Anti-Torture Initiative human rights for human rights violations violations related to armed to uphold the international by building the capacity of conflicts and counter- prohibition on torture, violations lawyers in Russia, Ukraine and terrorism operations, as well through a programme of the South Caucasus to litigate as torture and gender-based research, advocacy, education Abdorrahman strategic cases before the violence in post-Soviet and technical assistance. Boroumand Center for European Court of Human regions. Human Rights in Iran Rights and other international Coalizione Italiana USD 880,000 (48 months) bodies. SITU Studio Liberta e Diritti Civili To preserve memory and to USD 300,000 (36 months) USD 436,170 (36 months) support efforts towards truth, Impunity Watch To work with human rights To support a coalition of justice and accountability for USD 531,338 (36 months) organisations and courts Italian non-governmental gross violations of human To support Impunity Watch's to present evidence more organisations working to rights in Iran by maintaining efforts to strengthen its persuasively and effectively improve immigrant and an online memorial to victims functioning, in particular in through the application of refugee rights, criminal of persecution and political the areas of communications, spatial analysis and justice, equality, national violence. monitoring and evaluation visualisation. security and privacy rights. and fundraising. Argentine Forensic TRIAL International Global Detention Project Anthropology Team Institute for USD 445,545 (36 months) USD 250,000 (24 months) (EAAF) International Criminal To challenge the impunity To ensure that asylum USD 2,500,000 (36 months) Investigations of individuals and corporate seekers, undocumented To provide core support to USD 494,681 (36 months) actors involved in gross migrants and refugees are help EAAF apply forensic To provide core support to human rights violations and treated with dignity and anthropology and related train human rights activists secure redress for the victims respect when in official sciences to investigations of and non-governmental of these crimes. custody. gross human rights violations. organisations to investigate and document international TrustAfrica Human Rights First USD 600,000 (36 months) USD 250,000 (12 months) Business and Human crimes. Rights Resource Centre To build a strong anti-impunity To advocate for a rights- USD 450,000 (48 months) Memoria Abierta movement across Africa by respecting US asylum system To support the corporate USD 717,807 (48 months) strengthening the capacity and an end to abusive legal accountability portal, To strengthen Memoria of civil society organisations immigration enforcement and an online database of Abierta’s role regionally and to contribute to transitional detention practices, and to litigation efforts that seeks internationally by sharing its justice policy at national level. ensure US counter-terrorism to: empower advocates so expertise with communities policies related to detention, VoxBox, Inc. that they can hold corporates who have experienced gross fair trials and targeted killings USD 100,000 (12 months) to account; strengthen legal violations of human rights. are in line with human rights To support the development protections to better protect standards. New Venture Fund of Memria – an online social victims of abuse; and drive USD 600,000 (36 months) platform that collects and Hungarian Helsinki forward the global debate on To support the Sage Fund’s stores important or Committee accountability for corporate efforts to create in human meaningful personal narrative USD 650,000 (36 months) human rights impacts. rights accountability for accounts from a variety of To reduce arbitrary detention Centre for Studies on economic actors by spurring audiences. and ill treatment in the Truth, Memory and innovation and building context of immigration/ Justice greater field capacity in the asylum procedures and the USD 600,000 (36 months) human rights movement. criminal justice system in To uncover the truth about Freedom from Hungary. Rights Watch (UK) grave violations of human USD 500,000 (36 months) Instituto Pro Bono rights in Turkey, strengthen arbitrary To counter abusive practices USD 100,000 (12 months) collective memory of those and policies that violate detention and To provide core support to violations and support fundamental rights, in Instituto Pro Bono for its survivors and other actors particular in relation to the torture development of a pro bono in their pursuit of justice. measures taken by states in American Civil Liberties legal sector in Brazil. Civitas Maxima pursuit of national security Union Inc. USD 490,099 (36 months) and in conflict. USD 1,200,000 (14 months) To gather evidence on serious To support due process rights crimes in selected jurisdictions and to protect individual and pursue accountability on liberties in the context of behalf of victims in national immigration, national security and international fora. and protest. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 39

Organisation Mondiale Human Rights Watch The Engine Room European Human Rights Contre la Torture (OMCT) USD 917,000 (8 months) USD 450,000 (36 months) Advocacy Centre USD 594,059 (36 months) To ensure Brazil, India, Russia, To consolidate the USD 107,500 (36 months) To strengthen OMCT's South Africa and Thailand organisational development To administer a merit-based communications and network become positive forces for of the Engine Room and paid internship programme capacity and increase the advancing a global human expand its support to human within Oak’s International effectiveness, visibility and rights agenda, while rights activists to integrate Human Rights programme; reach of its advocacy in the respecting human rights data and technology safely to expose recent graduates fight against torture. at home. and effectively into their to the international human work. rights sector and give them Platform for International Civil direct experience in International Society Centre Witness Inc grant-making. Cooperation on USD 212,766 (12 months) USD 400,000 (17 months) Undocumented Migrants To strengthen advocacy in To support the Global Dialogue USD 319,149 (36 months) defence of civic participation implementation of Witness' USD 250,000 (36 months) To seek improvements in EU and civic society rights new expanded strategy over To provide core support to policy, legislation and national through the promotion and the next 18 months and assist Ariadne, a network for level practice, in regard to use of the Civic Charter. in its regionalisation process. European Funders for Human undocumented migrants. Rights and Social Justice. Legal and Social Reprieve Support Charity Global Dialogue USD 250,000 (17 months) Foundation "Sphere" USD 250,000 (24 months) To promote accountability USD 300,000 (36 months) Broadening To provide support to several and pursue strategic initiatives To provide core support to UK-based organisations to end abuses committed in the Russian LGBT Network human rights working around human rights the 'War on Terror'. “Sphere”. and preventing attacks on constituencies human rights legislation in Partners Asia Arab Human Rights Fund the UK. USD 1,150,000 (12 months) (AHRF) To promote social justice, International Network Supporting USD 248,484 (10 months) the rule of law and respect of Civil Liberties To assist AHRF in its for human rights in Myanmar Organisations and protecting restructuring process and through direct grant-making USD 350,000 (36 months) support its fundraising and capacity-building support To protect fundamental human rights strategy to build financial to local organisations. guarantees with respect to stability. defenders social protest, privacy rights, Prague Civil Assifero religious freedom and civic CEELI Institute Society Centre USD 100,000 (17 months) activism. USD 245,000 (24 months) USD 1,200,000 (24 months) To provide core support to To support the efforts of the To support civil society in the London School of Assifero, an affinity group of Russian bar to increase its former USSR (not including Economics Italian foundations, with a professional competencies, the Baltics) through financial USD 100,000 (12 months) view to promoting strategic through research and support, capacity building, To research and analyse the philanthropy in Italy. professional opportunities leadership development and operation of social media in Prague. fostering innovation. Astraea Lesbian echo chambers. Foundation For Justice European Center for Privacy International Movies that Matter USD 60,000 (12 months) Not for Profit Law USD 375,000 (36 months) Foundation To conduct comprehensive USD 249,984 (24 months) To challenge new forms of USD 250,000 (36 months) research and report on the To work with partners to state surveillance, the transfer To promote a wider discussion state of funding for lesbian, empower civil society of surveillance capabilities on human rights, including gay, bisexual, transgender, organisations to counter across borders and the LGBTI rights, by supporting queer and intersex (LGBTQI) attacks on their operating exploitation of data that independent human rights communities worldwide. space and freedom of associa- threatens the security and film festivals worldwide. tion, assembly and expression, safe operating of civil society. Bird and Carrot Ltd. National Council for inspired by counter-terrorist USD 100,000 (3 months) Tactical Technology Civil Liberties (Liberty) financing and anti-money To support the production of Collective USD 677,649 (24 months) laundering policies, including an immersive performance USD 702,128 (36 months) To provide core support to those related to the Financial in the Saatchi Gallery by the To provide core support to the Liberty to promote and build Action Task Force. London-based theatre Les Tactical Technology Collective support for human rights Enfants Terribles about the Fund For Global Human to advance the skills, tools and among the public and policy prison experience of the Rights techniques of human rights makers in the UK and ensure feminist punk-group activists USD 500,000 (12 months) activists. a rights-compliant Brexit. To provide financial resources Pussy Riot. and capacity-building support to human rights organisations in the Global South and East. 40 ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN Issues Affecting Women

In the Issues Affecting Women Programme, we seek to contribute to a world in which women are safe from violence and are free to exercise their full and equal human rights. We seek to build a strong and vibrant movement of women who are empowered individually and collectively to challenge patriarchal norms and tackle the root causes of inequality.

We support organisations that work to end patterns of violence and exploitation that disrupt women’s lives by ensuring that rights-based laws and policies guarantee

an environment free from violence, and by transforming Inc de los Derechos del Migrante, © Centro harmful social norms. This is complemented by support to services that empower women to recover from the trauma of violence and rebuild their lives. We particularly recognise the importance of giving marginalised groups of women a chance to exercise their influence and have their voices heard. ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN 41 © Migrant Justice Inc de los Derechos del Migrante, © Centro

Reflections

Over the past year, the Issues Affecting • creating and maintaining safe spaces Women Programme (IAWP) has refined for organising; its strategy to ensure that we are • generating research and knowledge maximising the impact of our partners’ to strengthen the field and create 29 work. We strive to give voice and common agendas; visibility to their courage and capacities grants were made in many countries around the world. • enabling connections across the by the Issues women’s rights sector and with other Affecting Women To better understand the impact of our sectors for improved cooperation and Programme in support, we revisited our strategy as a collaboration; and 2017, totalling precursor for launching a new learning, USD 18.2 million. monitoring and evaluation system. • supporting mobilisation efforts of The strategic planning process included key constituencies and across sectors. the active participation of many of our At least one (and often more) of partners who helped us review and these elements always accompany our streamline our expected outcomes. grant-making. We believe that this new There are no major thematic shifts in strategy is a more accurate reflection our strategy, but the review has helped of the changes we seek to influence us recognise movement building as the around the world. We are excited to core of our theory of change. work with our partners to create a safer, We believe that supporting and more just and equal world. strengthening women’s rights movements is the most effective lever for engendering social, cultural and political change. All over the world, women’s movements are countering the inequalities and injustice affecting women’s lives, including and especially in addressing violence that women experience in the home (domestic The photographs throughout the IAWP violence), at work (trafficking and section of this report illustrate the work exploitation), and in situations of crisis. of our partners supporting migrants. This includes during migrants' journeys Our strategy has defined five pathways north from South and Central America for strengthening and sustaining and our partners' efforts in the women’s movements that are present United States to organise migrants and across the IAWP portfolio: help them achieve greater recognition • ensuring groups and movements have of their human rights. We work with adequate leadership, capacities and many small not-for-profit organisations financial resources; through several intermediary

organisations. For a comprehensive Find out more at list, please see page 45. www.oakfnd.org 42 ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN

Fleeing violence and searching for fair work conditions

In January 2016, Vero and her husband Hugo took their motorbike to go to the market in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They were involved in an accident where they were hit by a car driven by a young man named Juan Alonzo. As a result, Vero suffered two fractures and was forced to stop working for several months, which meant she lost her job as a nurse.* Juan was ordered by the court to pay Vero’s bills, but he soon stopped paying and Vero’s family began to run out of money. Vero tried to contact Juan directly but he did not take the calls and she was told he no longer lived in the city. Then, late one night, Juan turned up at Vero and Hugo’s house – with several gang members. They threatened to kill the whole family. That same night, the whole family packed up their possessions and escaped, heading toward Mexico. It was the beginning of a year-long struggle. In the months that followed, the family travelled north, going from place to place to find shelter. On many occasions they were assaulted and threatened by other gangs. They ran out of money and were forced to work under exploitative labour conditions. On 15 August, they arrived at Formacion y Capacitacin (FOCA), which works to reduce the violence experienced by women on the migratory route. They applied for refugee status and in December 2016 they received permanent residence cards for Mexico. Enormously relieved after their long ordeal, they moved to Mexico City to look for better work and life opportunities. Vero’s family’s story is just one of many. Thousands of migrants from Central America and Mexico leave their homes and communities in search of a better life every year – many leave for reasons of poverty or a lack of opportunity. Others, like Vero, notably from the notorious Northern Triangle region of Migrant Justice

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Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, to leave their families and communities. are fleeing high levels of violence. In addition, our partners provide support services and help victims of A 2015 report1 by the United Nations violence to seek redress and justice High Commissioner for Refugees whenever possible. (UNHCR) documents how women in particular face a startling degree of violence in the Northern Triangle and Mexico, including rape, assault, A place of safety extortion, torture, theft and threats by About 50 km from the Guatemalan armed criminal groups. As many as border in Chiapas in the city of Comitán, 64 per cent of women interviewed for Mexico, the Casita Morada is a small the study cited targeted threats or house that serves as an information and attacks as a reason for leaving their help centre for migrant women arriving communities. But sadly they encounter from the Northern Triangle. The Casita even more violence as they travel north is the only centre of its kind in south- – many are subjugated to gang violence. eastern Mexico. It is a result of years of work by a network called the Red "This is a humanitarian Mesoamericana Mujer, Salud y (which translates as crisis, and women and Migracion Mesoamerican Women, Health and The Casita Morada children are bearing the Migration Network). This informal offers direct worst of it. Abuse of all kinds group has around 35 member support to women towards women is off the organisations from Southern Mexico, on the migratory scale." Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, route from - Medina Haeri Nicaragua and Costa Rica, who South and Central Programme Officer collectively work for women’s rights America to the Issues Affecting Women Programme and to reduce the violence experienced United States. by women on the migratory route. Diana Damián Palencia, executive Migrants fleeing under these desperate director of FOCA, which coordinates the conditions are vulnerable to further network, explained how, over the years, exploitation and violence along the it became clear that a physical place to migration route. They are often easy give information specifically for women prey for unscrupulous smugglers and was needed. “Women are particularly traffickers. A recent survey2 by Médecins vulnerable on the migratory route, yet Sans Frontières showed that 68.3 per less protected,” she said. “Often they cent of migrants from the Northern are afraid to approach the authorities.” Triangle reported experiencing some In both rural and urban areas, women form of violence while travelling face discrimination. through Central America and Mexico. FOCA also organises workshops which Among women, 31.4 per cent reported focus on the concepts of solidarity and some form of sexual abuse. support and attempt to forge common Oak Foundation supports organisations bonds among the women. “I believe that and networks working on the issue of as long as even one woman benefits, the migration in Mexico and Guatemala – work is worthwhile,” says Diana. both countries of origin, transit and destination for Central Americans "I am encouraged by fleeing violence in their home communities. Our partners are working how women in Chiapas to improve legal frameworks and ensure are building themselves up that the rights afforded to migrants and from their inner selves. The asylum seekers in international human women I have worked with rights treaties are recognised and share a strong capacity to enforced. They raise awareness among the communities of the risks of overcome difficulties and not migration. They also work with states to give up." to address the social, political and - Diana Damián Palencia economic factors that are forcing people Executive Director, FOCA 44 ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN Migrant Justice Migrant Justice © ©

Sometimes the women who come to improved labour protection for Casita report abduction cases or seek excluded sectors of work. They also Many thousands help finding family members. Other raise awareness around workers’ rights. of workers times they are fleeing violence or need The Centro de los Derechos del from Mexico psychosocial assistance. The Casita has Migrante, Inc. (CDM) is a transnational and Central a full-time lawyer that provides legal migrant rights organisation working to America are advice. In addition, it offers a referral ensure access to justice for these recruited each service to other civil society workers. This is done by bringing year in the organisations which support victims. migrants together and teaching them United States about their rights, and improving their for low-wage recruitment and working conditions. manual jobs. “CDM strives to eradicate fraud and Ensuring migrants have abuse in international labour Our partners fair working conditions recruitment,” says Sienna Baskin, advocate for their director of NEO Philanthropy’s Anti- rights and for in the United States Trafficking Fund, which manages the improved labour IAWP US anti-trafficking portfolio of In addition, our partners in the US – protection. grants. “In both Mexico and the United Centro de los Derechos Migrantes, States, CDM has built coalitions CAST, VIDA Legal Assistance, dedicated to disrupting power Migrant Justice, Safe Horizon, Justice imbalances in international labour In Motion, Freedom Network – work recruitment.” to reform the US immigration and recruitment system, and provide direct In 2014, CDM launched a website called services to migrants. This supports in Contratados.org, which provides a set particular those whose rights have of powerful, interactive tools to migrant been violated, or those who have workers. It provides space to share and been trafficked to the US. access previously unavailable information about recruitment and Hundreds of thousands of workers, working conditions. It empowers them often from Mexico and Central America, to make informed decisions about are recruited each year in the US for US job opportunities. Through this low-wage manual labour, such as picking award-winning website, CDM is fruit and vegetables, construction or preventing trafficking and exploitation hospitality work. These areas tend to be at every point along the US/Mexico excluded from formal labour protection migration corridor. mechanisms, so people working in these sectors are more vulnerable to abuse Migrant Justice led another innovative and exploitation. Our partner campaign to improve working conditions organisations – Urban Justice Center by establishing a programme called Milk Sex Workers Project, National with Dignity in the US state of Vermont. Domestic Worker Association, Fair This campaign has helped ensure that Food Standards Council, Worker-led workers on dairy farms are fairly paid Social Responsibility Network – and have access to decent housing, advocate at state and federal levels for healthcare and safety standards, as ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN 45 MIgrant Justice ©

well as other fundamental rights in the propelled by our belief in the power of workplace. movements to drive social change and protect human rights. In 2014 Centro This partnership is a result of over two de los Derechos del years of intense negotiations. Under the Often we work with intermediary Migrante launched Milk with Dignity Program, employers organisations who in turn re-grant to the website can no longer discriminate when hiring other, smaller organisations. In 2017 Contratados.org. or hold workers’ wages to prevent them we provided grants to the following On this site, from changing jobs. The Milk with organisations on the issues of migration migrant workers Dignity campaign was modelled on the and South and Central America: share and access Fair Food Program, which provides information about protection and support for tomato- NEO Philanthropy provides grants to: recruitment and pickers in Florida. Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, working conditions. “This is a historic moment for dairy Coalition to Abolish Slavery and workers,” says Medina Haeri. “Workers Trafficking, Fair Food Standards Council, in the food supply chain are notoriously Freedom Network, Human Trafficking vulnerable to exploitation. The Milk with Legal Center, Justice in Motion, Migrant Dignity Program has the potential Justice, National Domestic Workers to completely transform current Association, National Economic & Social exploitative practices and prevent abuse Rights Initiative, Safe Horizon's Anti- and exploitation of migrant workers in trafficking Programme, Urban Justice the dairy sector, starting in Vermont and Center's Sex Workers Project, VIDA hopefully expanding to other states.” Legal Assistance and Worker-driven Social Responsibility Collaborative.

Hispanics in Philanthropy provides grants to: Agenda Nacional de Political Moving forward with Trans, Aluna, Brigada Callejera, Centro intermediaries de Apoyo y Capacitacio para Empleadas del Hogar, INSAD, Las Hormigas, Oak Foundation is committed to Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, supporting the organisations and Sociales y Culturales and Red Nacional networks in the US, Mexico and de Refugios. Guatemala that provide life-saving services to migrants and victims of Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres trafficking and exploitation. Moving provides grants to: Actoras de Cambio, forward, we will continue to seek out Equipo de estudios comunitarios y organisations that: bring innovative accion psicosocial, Mesa Nacional approaches to these challenges; fill para las Migraciones en Guatemala, service or protection gaps; and Mesa Transfronteriza Migraciones y empower marginalised populations to Género, MUJER, Mujeres Transformando be full participants in defining the laws el Mundo, Pop Noj, La Red and policies that affect their lives. Meso-americana Mujer and Unión We support all of our partners across Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas. countries and sectors to work together, References: Please see page 84 of this report. 46 ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN Grants © Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc de los Derechos del Migrante, © Centro Inc de los Derechos del Migrante, credit goes here © Photo Centro

Artemida, Drochia Centro Feminista de Global Justice Center International Women’s USD 280,000 (24 months) Estudos e Assessoria USD 300,000 (36 months) Rights Action Watch Asia To support the work of USD 30,000 (2 months) To provide core support to Pacific (IWRAW AP) Artemida in a centre for To support the seventh Global Justice Center to use USD 120,000 (12 months) perpetrators of domestic plenary of the Brazilian innovative legal arguments To provide IWRAW AP with an violence in Drochia, a city in Women’s Articulation Board and advocacy strategies, exit grant to support its From the northern part of Moldova. (AMB) in Brazilia in October based on international law, Global to Local Programme. 2017. to dismantle discriminatory Association Découvrir legal and political structures Kalayaan USD 69,656 (12 months) USD 187,500 (36 months) ELAS Social that prevent equality and To establish a merit-based To provide core support to Investment Fund human rights for all. fellowship programme within USD 453,000 (36 months) Kalayaan to work with migrant Oak’s Issues Affecting Women To provide core support to Graduate Institute domestic workers (MDW), Programme in Geneva, Elas Social Investment Fund, Geneva especially victims of labour Switzerland, for qualified enabling it to make progress USD 99,010 (12 months) exploitation or trafficking, migrant women with prior towards its key strategic To help the Inclusive Peace through direct support working experience relevant priorities to strengthen and Transition Initiative move services and campaigning to women’s rights and gender Brazilian women’s from being a start-up opera- aimed at improving the legal equality. movements. tion to a high-functioning and and policy framework established human research affecting all MDW. Association Everyman Project and policy centre. ViolenceQueFaire USD 270,000 (36 months) Latin American Women’s USD 222,772 (36 months) To provide core support Hispanics in Philanthropy Rights Service (LAWRS) To provide core support to to Everyman Project in the USD 1,685,056 (24 months) USD 300,000 (36 months) Association ViolenceQueFaire UK by supporting men who To administer and expand To provide core support to to build on and expand the perpetrate intimate partner the Issues Affecting Women LAWRS, so that it can continue reach of its website that violence to take responsibility Programme's Mexico to empower Latin American provides online French for their actions and change. portfolio of grants working migrant women experiencing language information on on migration, exploitation, violence, exploitation and intimate partner violence - Fondo Centroamericano trafficking and violence abuse in the UK. especially psychological de Mujeres against women. USD 2,340,000 (24 months) violence - in Switzerland. NEO Philanthropy To support the IAWP’s Imkaan (formerly Public Interest AVVEC Aide Au Victimes Guatemala portfolio of grants USD 100,000 (12 months) Projects) de Violence En Couple working on trafficking and To assess and understand the USD 5,756,640 (36 months) USD 360,000 (36 months) exploitation, with a focus on funding landscape for black, To administer and To support AVVEC’s “Open migration, labour rights and minority and ethnic women strategically grow the Issues the Door” programme in access to justice for victims affected by domestic violence, Affecting Women Geneva, Switzerland, to help of sexual violence during as well as for specialised Programme's US-based victims of domestic violence Guatemala’s 30-year civil war. services offered to these trafficking and exploitation access information, assistance women in the United portfolio of grants. and support. Gender Alternatives Kingdom. Foundation Proteus Fund Centre Social USD 150,000 (36 months) Impact Mapper, PBC USD 600,000 (36 months) Protestant (CSP) To affirm and promote USD 250,000 (12 months) To provide core support to USD 401,679 (36 months) women’s rights and gender To provide support to finalise Philanthropy Advancing To support the CSP’s equality in Plovdiv, Bulgaria the Impact Mapper platform, Women’s Human Rights. continued operation of its and more widely in the which tracks impact across helpline for victims of human country, by providing rights- the women's rights field. trafficking in the canton of based services to women Geneva, Switzerland. victims of violence. ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN 47 © Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc de los Derechos del Migrante, © Centro

SafeLives Women at the Table USD 475,000 (36 months) USD 300,000 (36 months) To provide SafeLives To increase the participation, with core support to end leadership and influence domestic abuse in the UK. of frontline/grassroots women leaders on issues that impact women and their The MATCH International communities. Women's Fund Women's Fund in Georgia USD 300,000 (36 months) (WFG) To support innovative USD 225,000 (36 months) grassroots women’s To provide core support to organisations that lead WFG, enabling it to advance movements for its mission of empowering transformative change to: women and the women’s dismantle barriers, change movement in Georgia. systems, challenge perceptions and transform Women's International society. League for Peace and Freedom The Mediterranean USD 100,000 (10 months) Women’s Fund To create an event USD 390,000 (36 months) in Geneva that will enable To provide Mediterranean women excluded from Women’s Fund with core participating in the support, enabling it to help Commission of the Status of build strong national and Women in New York, due regional women’s movements. to the visa ban, to participate TRAG Foundation and have their opinions heard USD 507,646 (12 months) on crucial issues. To strengthen women's movements and civil society Women's International organisations in Bosnia and League for Peace and Herzegovina, Serbia and Freedom (WILPF) Montenegro. USD 1,475,000 (36 months) WAVE Network To provide core support to USD 450,000 (36 months) WILPF to strengthen the To provide core support to capacity of frontline women’s the WAVE Network to provide organisations to mobilise for advice, research, mobilisation peace, equality, justice and and capacity building support human security. to women's organisations in 46 European countries, that provide services to women and children who are experiencing gender-based violence. This is a list of grants approved in 2017. For a comprehensive list and full descriptions, please visit our website at www.oakfnd.org 48 LEARNING DIFFERENCES Learning Differences

In the Learning Differences Programme, we envision a world where students with learning differences are agents of their own learning success and are supported by educators and environments that expect, embrace and respond to diverse learner profiles. © Jada Jonas, Iredell-Statesville Schools © Jada Jonas, Iredell-Statesville We support teacher development, student engagement and parental understanding to enable students to follow their own individual paths to lifelong learning success. We seek partners who design and create learning environments that are informed by student voices, neuroscience, personalised learning best practices and universal design concepts. LEARNING DIFFERENCES 49 © Digital Promise © Digital Promise

Reflections

In 2017, the Learning Differences 3. Educators should be prepared Programme (LDP) continued to for, and have the tools to respond pursue its longterm goal to serve to diverse learner profiles in order students with a wide range of learning to better serve students with 12 profiles to achieve success in public learning differences in general schools and during the transition to education environments. grants were made and through college and other by the Learning 4. Parents should have the knowledge post-secondary opportunities. Differences to understand their child’s unique Programme in This year, the LDP welcomed a new learner profile and the tools to 2017, totalling director, Heather Graham, and a new advocate for him/her. USD 10.93 million. programme officer, Bethiel Girma 5. Education systems should define Holton. We said goodbye to Stacy student success, using accountability Parker-Fisher, who had been with frameworks with multiple indicators LDP since 2009 and Kelli Joyce who of academic performance as well had served since 2011. The team also as measures of social and emotional began three learning processes: wellbeing, persistence and an evaluation of its grant-making engagement. to increase the capacity of teachers to understand and support students We envision a world where students with learning differences; the develop- with learning differences are agents ment of an Impact Measurement of their own learning success and are Working Group for LDP partners; and supported by educators and a racial equity assessment and recom- environments that expect, embrace mendations. and respond to diverse learner profiles. We support partners who: The LDP strategy is based on a set of core beliefs: 1. strengthen teacher capacity; 1. Each learner possesses a diverse 2. engage students; set of cognitive, social and 3. enhance parents’ knowledge emotional assets, knowledge, skills, and support; interests and preferences. These characteristics interact to form unique 4. personalise learning environment learner profiles that may evolve 5. build demand for responsive over time. learning environments; and 2. Students, particularly those with 6. explore learner profiles. learning differences, can achieve Through these strategies, we will greater academic success when they continue our efforts to improve the understand how they learn and use lives of those with learning differences that knowledge to plan for, and globally. adapt to, learning environments. Find out more at www.oakfnd.org 50 LEARNING DIFFERENCES © Personalising learning for every student

Marta* is seven and starting second grade. Her parents moved to mainland US from Puerto Rico eight years ago just before she was born. She is of average age for her class. Marta has strong auditory processing, which means she can quickly and efficiently understand what she hears. She enjoys hands-on math activities. But she struggles to learn to read. She is discouraged as classmates move ahead and she feels less intelligent than her friends. Marta’s well-meaning teacher provides her books with simpler vocabulary and syntax, hoping to help Marta. With Marta reading different books to her classmates, her teacher works with her one-on-one when he can. When he cannot, Marta works alone or a classmate reads to her. While these well-meaning interventions can be effective for other learners, they only continue to frustrate Marta because they do not align with the cognitive factors affecting her own learning. She retreats further into herself, as she feels she is reading “baby books” and the other kids know it. Then, in a poetry study, Marta’s teacher notices her struggling to identify rhyming words. Through Digital Promise Global's (DPG) Learner Positioning Systems (LPS), which tries to uncover strategies to meet learners where they are across varied contexts and needs, Marta’s teacher searches “rhyming” to try to understand more. He is directed towards the phonological awareness summary on which rhyming appears. He performs a simple assessment suggested by the LPS framework: the Rhyming Individual Growth and Development Indicator. This reveals Marta is struggling with phonological awareness skills. “These are broad skills that include identifying and manipulating parts of oral language – such as words, syllables and rhymes,” says Dana

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Learning Difference Programme (LDP). design strategies to support all “Students like Marta, who cannot learners, including those who have identify or make out oral rhymes, are learning differences such as dyslexia. not able to relate the sounds to the Technology provides tremendous words they see on a page.” potential to support teachers and We believe in the importance of learners in personalising educational understanding learners as individuals experiences for all, but appropriate when personalising learning, in personalisation can only happen based particular for students who learn on what is understood about learners. differently. “If you only know a student’s score on a math test, but you don’t know "If we don't design what factors shaped their pathway to and build programmes, that score, you don’t have enough information to plan the next steps on products and practices their learning journey,” says Stacy Parker based on what learning -Fisher, former director of Oak's LDP. science tells us about how Nonetheless, we realise the term learners vary, we risk simply “personalised learning” has become an re-marginalising those overused term in American education learners for whom school We believe systems and beyond in recent years, already doesn't work." in the importance with thousands of schools, education - Vic Vuchic, Chief Innovation of understanding technology tools and programmes Officer, Digital Promise Global learners as claiming to personalise learning. Some individuals. This programmes “personalise” by letting includes students each learner start at a different place For students with learning differences based on what a test says they already like dyslexia or attention deficits, the who learn know; others provide different pathways typical classroom designed for the differently. and timelines to achieving the same mythical “average” learner has never 1 content standards. Some even confuse been a good fit. As learner diversity has computer-based learning as grown tremendously in classrooms over personalised, irrespective of whether the past several decades, many Western the technology tailors the experience education systems have struggled to for an individual student. support millions of students who are bright, capable and eager to learn, Unfortunately, not many agree on but held back from achieving their full what personalised learning is, and there potential by traditional educational are no clear standards about what pathways. constitutes personalised learning. In few environments is the full At the core of the LPS work is the variability of students across all concept of learner models. These dimensions considered. These include: include social-emotional development, cognition; social-emotional learning; cognitive skills and content knowledge. content knowledge; and personal Learner models are developed according factors such as stress, trauma, hunger, to individual age ranges and contexts. or poor physical health. All of these Each model is designed to answer the factors interact to impact readiness question: ‘what are the major factors and motivation to learn. that we should understand to support the full diversity of learners?’ To help identify the factors critical to learning at different stages of the Learner models support: primary school spectrum, Oak partnered 1. learner self knowledge and with Digital Promise Global to continue metacognition; developing its LPS project. The goal 2. teacher knowledge of learner of this project is to translate learning variability and supportive science research in actionable ways that instructional strategies; 3. technological developer insight help educators, technology and product * Marta is one of several developers, parents and learners about key product design features fictional personas that for personalisation; and Digital Promise Global understand how learners vary. LPS used to inform the design provides instructional and product 4. school and district programmatic of the Learner Positioning decision making. Systems (LPS). 52 LEARNING DIFFERENCES The Hill Center © Katherine Clark /The Hill Center © Alex Boerner /

Initially the LPS team will partner with to develop tools for teachers, districts, education technology platforms to make parents and learners; and evaluate the The Learner existing programmes and resources impact of these models on learning. Positioning more effective at personalising learning. Systems team DPG and LPS teams are leading the way will partner For example, the LPS team has worked in building a broader understanding of with education with a nationally implemented literacy learner variability. They are also helping platform, Readworks, in this way. LPS science inform practice, so that every technology provides access to the learning science student achieves their potential as a platforms to and guidance on translating this learner and is better prepared for life. improve existing information into product development In 2017, the LDP made a special programmes' to impact the learning of thousands of initiative grant to Digital Promise Global capacity to students immediately. "The LPS brings for USD 10 million over five years. It will personalise learning science information all in one support the Learner Positioning Systems learning. place. I can’t think of anything else that initiative. Please see page 61 of this does this,” said Katy Laird, associate report for the grant description. director of Teacher and School Engagement at ReadWorks. “When we began collaborating with the LPS team, we were able to apply what Iredell-Statesville we were learning immediately, and it's Schools already impacted products that we were in the middle of building," said David In 2010 Oak gave a grant to Iredell- Ciulla, executive director of ReadWorks. Statesville Schools in North Carolina for USD 270,000 as a partner in a DPG's support in applying the science USD 6 million federal "Investing in closes a longstanding gap between Innovation" grant. It implemented scientific research and technology multi-tiered systems of support that aim development. "We've never really had to understand each student as a learner. the bandwidth to address some of the other learner factors, like cognition and This has made a remarkable impact – social emotional learning in ReadWorks,” dropout rates decreased, graduation said Manjula Raman, director of Content rates increased and the number of and Curriculum at ReadWorks. “LPS has students with learning differences who really helped us find a way to integrate were well-served increased. Sophisticat- these factors into our technological ed data tracking systems and internal features, tools and content to make a processes insured that every student bigger impact on diverse learners than was monitored on a frequent basis. we had been able to before.” Oak has now provided a follow-up Over the next five years, the LPS will grant of USD 350,000 over two years. continue to expand learner models and Iredell-Statesville Schools is partner with product developers. The collaborating with Digital Promise aim is to drive more research-based Global’s LPS to support personalisation design for learner diversity. LPS will between student learning needs and also: expand to partner organisations academic interventions. LEARNING DIFFERENCES 53 Grants © Digital Promise © CHIME

Branching Minds Council of Chief State National Center for The Hill Center Inc USD 500,000 (24 months) School Officers Learning Disabilities USD 500,000 (29 months) To bring personalised USD 130,000 (12 months) (NCLD) To provide core support to learning support to millions To support the Council of the US-based Hill Center, USD 3,000,000 (36 months) of students in the United Chief State School Officers which provides personalised, To support NCLD to continue States struggling to succeed in convening the National research-based reading, managing Understood.org, in classrooms. Collaborative on Inclusive writing and math instruction an online platform for parents Principal Leadership, a for students with learning of children who have learning Center for Curriculum coalition of diverse organisa- differences. and attention issues. Redesign tions committed to advancing USD 250,000 (24 months) policy and practices that To provide a platform for Public Impact, LLC support inclusive learning USD 200,000 (36 months) leaders in the field of learning environments for all learners To build the capacity of the differences to redesign global in the United States. Learning Differences systems of measuring student Programme and its partners learning that are aligned with East Carolina University in measuring the impact of goals and educational USD 1,498,737 (24 months) The photographs Oak-funded work on students outcomes relevant to the To support the continued throughout the LDP who learn differently. 21st century. expansion of the College section of this report STAR network in the United Center for Individual Relay Graduate School have mostly been States in order to strength- of Education Opportunity provided by LDP partners en a nationwide network of USD 250,000 (24 months) USD 2,000,000 (24 months) and illustrate various educational professionals and To support Relay Graduate To support a two-year services, both in K-12 and School of Education to teaching practices and campaign to test the viability postsecondary environments, develop and pilot the Special learning environments. of the social movement committed to increasing Education Leadership “Beyond Average”, which postsecondary opportunities Academy fellowship, which focuses on an expanded for students with learning will prepare special educators view of human potential. differences. to lead schools in supporting Convergence Green River Research, the academic and social- USD 1,000,000 (36 months) LLC emotional success of students To support Education with learning differences. USD 100,000 (12 months) Reimagined in accelerating To support Green River the growth and impact of a Teach for America Research to evaluate the USD 1,500,000 (36 months) learner-centred education impact of the Oak Learning To support Teach For America movement. Differences Programme's to incorporate an orientation efforts to build teacher around learner variability and capacity to understand, disability justice into its support and educate children programme continuum to with learning differences such reach 3,500 new teachers as dyslexia. each year.

This is a list of grants approved in 2017. For a comprehensive list and full descriptions, please visit our website at www.oakfnd.org References: Please see page 84 of this report. 54 SPECIAL INTEREST Special Interest

The Special Interest Programme reflects the Trustees’ interest in making dynamic, diverse, large, innovative and

challenging grants. We are committed to remaining flexible Affentranger © Stapferhaus Lenzburg/Anita and to seizing opportunities as they arise.

Special Interest grants cover a wide range of fields, including health, humanitarian relief, education and the arts. They are made to organisations whose activities the Trustees wish to support, irrespective of country or region. SPECIAL INTEREST 55 © Stapferhaus Lenzburg © Stapferhaus Lenzburg

By the end of December 2017 the Stories exhibition had attracted more than 62,000 visitors since its opening date The stories within this section represent in March of the same year, or more than the diverse range of grants within the 51 240 visitors a day. The majority found Special Interest Programme. that the exhibition provoked personal grants were debate and taught them something new. made by the Where is home for you? Special Interest In these days of mass migration, with Programme in "Migration is a hot topic many people having lost their homes 2017, totalling and trying to find new ones, home will all around the world. USD 46.49 million. perhaps never be as it once was. But We decided to try to build a what is home? Is it a place or an discussion around the concept emotion? A nation or a childhood of 'Heimat' - the German word memory? Is it the people we love? And for 'a sense of belonging' or what is the home we would like to have? 'a feeling of home', because The German word 'Heimat' does not everyone can relate to that." translate simply into other languages - Alain Gloor and has a much broader meaning than Stapferhaus Lenzburg the English word 'home'. The powerful emotional ties it evokes are probably best described as a 'sense of “We received a call from a prison in belonging'. While ideas of 'Heimat' Switzerland who asked us to send us the are enormously diverse, everyone has video we had made interviewing people a sense of what home is for them. Could about their ideas of 'Heimat', says it be the smell of cut grass that brings Rebecca Widmer Kerkhoff, project back a childhood memory of a summer’s manager at Stapferhaus. “I was so day? Is it the sound of the ocean? Is it a touched by the call – we hadn’t at all person or a place? Is it the smell of fresh expected this. Of course, a feeling bread straight from the oven or the of home is a hot topic within the prisons scent of jasmine blowing on the breeze? as well – our identity is very much linked to a feeling of belonging, and Stapferhaus in Lenzburg, Switzerland, perhaps there is nowhere more difficult invites people to reflect on this to make a home than in a prison.” question. The 'Heimat' exhibition takes us on a journey: from our first home Watch this video to find out more. (our mother’s womb) to the far reaches https://vimeo.com/225111733 of space, via virtual reality technology, where we are encouraged to think about humanity on a much broader level. On a Ferris wheel ride, card games are played, bringing prejudices to light. In a mirror The 'Heimat' exhibition invites garden, people see different sides to us to contemplate the idea of 'home' who they are. Find out more at and what it means to different people. www.oakfnd.org 56 SPECIAL INTEREST

Providing legal support Language can also present a barrier, and according to the Migration Policy to immigrants Institute, nearly 25.1 million people in Some 65.3 million people were displaced the US in 2013 did not speak English 4 globally in 2015, a number surpassing proficiently. This puts them at a the post-World War II record.1 In 2017, disadvantage straightaway in terms this trend continued, with conflicts of knowing and claiming their rights, in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, making it easy to fall through the cracks Syria and Yemen driving hundreds of in the system. There is also a lack of thousands from their homes. On the access to good lawyers. There are other side of the Atlantic, the number approximately 85,000 cases pending at of unaccompanied children and families the New York Immigration Court, but heading to the United States from very few lawyers practice immigration 5 Central America continues to increase, law for low-income clients. In addition, despite US insistence that their home obligatory federal government countries address the violence driving fees when applying for a change in Immigrant Justice the exodus.2 immigration status are impossible for Corps works to families living below the poverty line, reach thousands even before the expense of hiring a of immigrants "These are uncertain lawyer. with affordable, times for immigrants The Oak grant enables IJC to reach high-quality in America. The urgent need thousands of immigrants with legal assistance affordable, high-quality legal assistance for free and affordable legal as they await the and to support people, often living verdict of their counsel in deportation in poverty and fear, as they await the application proceedings has never been verdict on their applications for legal process for more critical ." residency. In addition, IJC has had a high legal residency. - Jojo Annobil rate of success – of the 293 cases that Executive Director have been closed, some 92 per cent of Immigrant Justice Corps them have been granted. “Immigration is America’s past, present and future,” says Jojo. “We should Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) uphold the core principles of liberty provides high-quality legal assistance and justice for all.” to immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation in the US. When immigrant families gain legal status, their economic prospects, quality of life and overall wellbeing improves rapidly and significantly. In the US, there are significant obstacles to accessing quality immigration services, both in New York City and around the country. “The logistical challenges of genuinely supporting immigrants are huge,” says Millie Brobston, programme officer for Oak's Special Interests Programme. “Immigrants suffer terrible hardships and often live in dire poverty as they P 57: The Helix Centre Project, based await consideration of their request for in St Mary's Hospital, London, aims to legal status.” For example, of the 29.4 address end-of-life care by balancing million children living in poor families in people's final wishes with standard the US in 2015, a staggering 9.4 million medical care practices. This is done (or 32 per cent) were children by combining clinical research, design of immigrants.3 and technology. Matthew Harrison, senior design associate of this project, features with his father in the left image References: Please see page 84 of this report. in central London. SPECIAL INTEREST 57 © Helix Centre © PAMS Foundation © PAMS © Helix Centre

Transforming end-of-life specialists, so that more people can pass away in a safe and end-of-life care peaceful environment. The Helix Centre is an innovation Death is a taboo subject and, while it A relatively new clinical discipline, lab combining comes to us all, it rarely receives the end-of-life care helps those with clinical research, advanced, progressive, incurable attention a topic of such importance design and requires. illnesses to live as well as possible until technology they pass away, supporting patients Seen as a tragedy, death often brings to address a variety and their families throughout the last stress to families and loved ones. Since phase of life and into bereavement. of healthcare those stressful situations are hard for “The healthcare sector’s mission is priorities, including everyone involved, the needs of those to fix people and make them better,” end-of-life care. reaching the end of their lives can be says Matthew. “It's not to help them overlooked. For example, the wishes die well. As a society we don’t really of someone to die at home can be like planning ahead, or thinking about forgotten if they take a bad turn and death. Then, when it comes to us or a the family panics and calls an ambulance family member, we are unprepared, to rush a relative to hospital. uninformed, don’t have a plan and don’t Nowadays, thanks to advances in know how to balance aggressive medical medical technology, many people live interventions that are possible but not longer and end-of-life care is arguably necessarily desirable.” even more important than before. Design and technology are key aspects “There is a desperate need to change of the Helix Centre Project. It provides attitudes towards death and dying a unique approach towards end-of-life in society,” says Diane Buczynski, care. “When people reach the end of programme officer for the Special their lives, their priorities change,” says Interest Programme. “End-of-life Matthew. “They might prioritise an services need to be improved to allow event, such as the birth of a grandchild, people to live well and die well in their or spiritual beliefs may also take on a communities, with access to pain and greater significance. End-of-life care symptom management.” is about balancing these desires with The Helix Centre Project, strategically standard medical care practices.” located in St Mary’s Hospital, “I believe the work of the Helix Centre Paddington, London, is a design centre Project will contribute to the field of that aims to do just that. “We are end-of-life care and help people die looking at how a design-led approach in dignity,” says Diane. “This is a really can improve end-of-life care in both a difficult yet important subject. Our clinical setting in hospitals and in the generation is going to have to change community,” says Matthew Harrison, the way we approach death.” senior design associate at the Helix Centre Project. This includes services that help carers to manage a home death with remote support from 58 SPECIAL INTEREST © Moorfields Charity © Moorfields Charity

Stem cell research Currently, standard practice taken by Moorfields Eye doctors is either to try to slow down AMD or prevent it. Hospital and the to reverse macular UCL Institute of degeneration Now, however, by building on the Ophthalmology expertise of the London Project to “The fact is, once the nerves in the are pioneering Cure Blindness through stem cell retina start to be damaged through therapies, Professors da Cruz and Coffey groundbreaking disease, they don’t regrow,” says work in stem cell want to use stem cells to replace the Professor Lyndon da Cruz. “So, people neural tissues in the retina. If they are research to lose their central and high-quality vision. find a new successful, this will have a significant It would be powerful if we could put impact on blindness worldwide. treatment for back what’s missing.” age-related This procedure will be streamlined to macular That is exactly what they are trying involve a simple operation taking less to do at degeneration. Moorfields Eye Hospital than one hour under local anaesthetic, NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL during which a small “transplant patch” Institute of Ophthalmology in London, populated with stem cells is injected the United Kingdom. Professor da Cruz into the back of the eye. Ultimately, and his colleague Professor Pete Coffey many thousands of these patches will be (featured above right) are conducting made up in a lab, ready and waiting for groundbreaking work in stem cell use by doctors. This will systematise a research to find a new treatment for solution to an illness which, up till now, age-related macular degeneration did not have a cure. (AMD). Moorfields Eye Hospital is the leading “AMD mostly affects the elderly provider for eye health services in population, taking away the enjoyment the UK and a world-class centre of of their retirement,” says Professor da excellence for ophthalmic research. The Cruz. “They can’t read; they can’t see research partnership of Professors da faces; they can’t drive. In the past there Cruz and Coffey and their team provides was no real solution for this. We would an unrivalled opportunity to transform just tell people that they have an illness how people think about and treat eye which affects the nerves in their eyes diseases. and that their vision would eventually be lost permanently.” “What it’s done now is opened up a huge treatment opportunity for a large More than 600,000 people in the UK number of people that could never have are affected by late stage AMD and 25 been helped in the past,” says da Cruz. per cent of the population over 60 are “That’s why we’re excited about looking impacted by AMD in some way. As the at all the possibilities stem cells hold population ages, this figure is expected in replacing different types of nerves, to increase significantly. Indeed, AMD hitherto irreparable.” is the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world. By 2020, it's predicted almost 700,000 people 6 will have late-stage AMD in the UK. References: Please see page 84 of this report. SPECIAL INTEREST 59 Grants © Christopher Parker/Oak Foundation Parker/Oak © Christopher © Immigrant Justice Corps

Africa Foundation Church World Service, Entraide Protestante Foundation for Scientific USD 813,412 (17 months) Inc. Suisse (EPER) and Technological To safely relocate about 30 USD 100,000 (12 months) USD 396,040 (41 months) Development in Health rhinos from areas in South To welcome refugees and To contribute to improving (FIOTEC) Africa, where they are being immigrants from around the the quality of life of migrants USD 602,847 (12 months) targeted by poachers, to areas world into lives of freedom, in Geneva by providing To improve and scale up the in Botswana. hope and opportunity in the information about the health diagnosis of Zika virus Triangle area of North and social services that they infections in Brazil. Association Savoir Carolina in the United States. are entitled to access. Patient Friends of the Chapel USD 197,993 (12 months) Combat Stress Exchange Clubs Child Hill Parks and Recreation To support the Savoir USD 1,250,000 (36 months) Abuse Prevention Center Department Patient Association in To provide core support to in Durham, Inc, DBA USD 250,000 (9 months) Switzerland to collect data Combat Stress to give timely Exchange Family Center To enhance parks, greenways on the 360° impact of breast and effective clinical USD 200,000 (34 months) and recreational facilities in cancer and to develop an treatment to UK military To strengthen families and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. electronic database to inform veterans who suffer from prevent child abuse and research and better address psychological wounds. neglect through family GiGi's Playhouse Raleigh USD 250,000 (60 months) patients’ needs. support, counseling and To offer foundational learning Coram's Field education. Bristol Zoological Society USD 352,563 (36 months) opportunities for individuals USD 959,354 (24 months) To improve the physical and Fondation Partage with Down syndrome, their To support the Bristol mental wellbeing of children USD 297,030 (36 months) families and the community, Zoological Society's 'British and young people with an To support Fondation by supporting speech- Ancient Woodland' project, emphasis on those from lower Partage’s core mission to language, social and motor which will restore an 8.5 socio-economic backgrounds, collect and sort unsold stock skills through therapy and hectare piece of ancient through the delivery of a from Geneva’s food stores education. woodland. free, comprehensive sports and to distribute it free of programme. charge to associations and Good Shepherd Build It International social services which assist International Foundation USD 750,000 (36 months) Creative Foundation and provide for those in need. ONLUS To support Build It USD 187,500 (8 months) USD 2,659,574 (51 months) International's construction To support the 2017 Forælder Fonden To provide support to Good training programme in Folkestone Triennial, a unique USD 4,634,605 (25 months) Shepherd International Zambia. international art event that To establish a new student Foundation and its partners treats the town of Folkestone, hall of residence for single in more than 30 countries CANSEARCH Foundation the United Kingdom, as a parents, thus creating a safe, to improve the lives of USD 500,000 (60 months) gallery. stable and stimulating vulnerable children, girls and To support the research team everyday life for the single women in particular. of CANSEARCH Foundation in dZi Foundation parent and their children Switzerland to improve USD 400,000 (48 months) while they pursue an Housing for New Hope treatment for children with To provide core support to education. Inc. cancer and blood diseases. dZi Foundation for its work in USD 300,000 (36 months) Nepal. Foundation for Change To prevent and end USD 200,000 (36 months) homelessness for families Elephants Alive To provide core support to the in Durham County, North USD 300,000 (36 months) London-based organisation Carolina and mitigate the To ensure the survival of Foundation for Change, which physical, social-emotional elephants and their habitats helps people from and intellectual trauma that and to promote harmonious disadvantaged backgrounds. homeless children commonly co-existence between humans experience. and elephants. 60 SPECIAL INTEREST © Moorfields Charity © Stapferhaus, Lenzburg

Immigrant Justice Corps Learning Outside, Inc. Munyawana Conservancy Royal Foundation of the (IJC) USD 650,000 (60 months) USD 400,000 (48 months) Duke and Duchess of USD 400,000 (24 months) To continue support for To expand and conserve Cambridge and Prince To provide core support to IJC the organisation’s outdoor wilderness areas and to Harry so that it can lift immigrants learning programmes in North protect the flora, fauna and USD 625,000 (36 months) out of poverty by providing Carolina, the US, and to help endemic species residing To increase rhinoceros pro bono legal services. ensure its financial within the Munyawana populations in priority sites sustainability. Conservancy. in Southern Africa, and International Rhino to support the effective Foundation Made in Durham New Economics disruption of trafficking USD 600,000 (36 months) USD 750,000 (36 months) Foundation (NEF) of wildlife products through To support International To implement a coordinated USD 500,000 (24 months) engagement with the Rhino Foundation to reduce strategy to serve youth who To provide core support to transport sector. rhino poaching and protect have dropped out of school NEF and, through them, to black and white rhinos in the and who are not employed. the New Economy Organisers Royal Marsden Cancer Lowveld conservancies of Network. Campaign Maitri Zimbabwe and one-horned USD 3,005,120 (60 months) USD 246,852 (36 months) rhinos in Assam, India. Providence House To support the Royal Marsden To continue Maitri’s work USD 1,000,000 (60 months) Hospital in London, the United with abandoned widows in To provide diverse Jenifer Altman Kingdom, to develop new Vrindavan, India. programmes and services Foundation treatments for children and USD 3,000,000 (36 months) while cultivating a nurturing teenagers with cancer to To support the European Médecins Sans Frontières community and caring homes improve the survival and Environment and Health Suisse (MSF Switzerland) in New York City. USD 495,050 (12 months) reduce the long-term health Initiative to strengthen civil To provide core support for effects of cancer treatments. society engagement to Queensland Ballet MSF Switzerland in support Company improve EU policies on Self-Help (Center for of its emergency response USD 2,000,000 (48 months) endocrine disrupting Community Self-Help) operations in under-reported To support the Jette Parker chemicals. USD 500,000 (13 months) crises. Young Artist Programme (at To help the Center for Kids in Need of Defense Queensland Ballet Company), MiracleFeet Community Self-Help (KIND) a year-long apprenticeship USD 5,000,000 (60 months) transform a building located USD 1,500,000 (36 months) programme offering young To provide core support to in the Angier/Driver business To continue to support KIND's talented dancers a career MiracleFeet to enable it to district in Durham, North project, 'Protecting Central pathway and building the next continue its work in existing Carolina, into a modern facility American children – on the generation of internationally partner countries and to occupied by organisations move and at home', which sought-after dancers. expand into new countries which serve the community. aims to protect, empower to reach and treat more Robin Hood Foundation and advance the rights of Shobana Jeyasingh children born with clubfoot. USD 3,000,000 (36 months) unaccompanied Central Dance To improve the lives of American migrant and USD 281,250 (36 months) Missing Children New Yorkers in poverty and refugee children. To provide core support for Switzerland (MCS) bring down barriers to USD 623,762 (36 months) Shobana Jeyasingh Dance to Laurel House, Inc. opportunities that block To give core support to MCS continue producing and USD 250,000 (24 months) them. to provide round-the-clock touring dance works across To further develop the support and advice to anyone the United Kingdom and website Resources to Recover confronted with, or fearing, internationally. (www.rtor.org) that guides, a child’s disappearance in supports and provides best Switzerland. practice resources for mental healthcare. SPECIAL INTEREST 61 © Immigrant Justice Corps © Immigrant Justice Corps

The Conservation Fund Triangle Residential USD 500,000 (24 months) Options for Substance Special To continue to build the Abusers, Inc. (TROSA) Initiative capacity of grassroots USD 200,000 (12 months) organisations to plan, manage To help construct a Digital Promise Global and implement programmes Comprehensive Care Centre (DPG) that increase access to healthy to provide health services USD 10,000,000 (60 months) foods and connect limited- for those in recovery from To support DPG to resource farmers with substance abuse. accelerate the Learner community markets to Positioning System strengthen and build more US Committee for initiative with the goal inclusive local food systems. Refugees and Immigrants of improving student agency USD 1,000,000 (48 months) and teacher instruction. The Queen's To ensure the long-term Commonwealth Trust safety and stability of The Voices Project USD 375,000 (36 months) unaccompanied children in USD 2,000,000 (48 months) To support the Queen's North Carolina by offering To support the UK-based Commonwealth Trust in its legal assistance and mental 'The Syria Campaign' in its work to provide small grants health services. work to elevate Syria’s heroes to young people throughout and build global support the Commonwealth, to help Voluntary Arts behind them. USD 312,500 (24 months) them get good ideas off the To extend and deepen ground. grassroots arts engagement The Young Center for across the UK and the Immigrant Children's Republic of Ireland so that Rights participation in creative USD 400,000 (24 months) cultural activity for at least To enable The Young Center two hours per week becomes for Immigrant Children's recognised as the norm. Rights to inform US decision- makers on the reality of life Wildlife SOS USD 381,870 (24 months) in the home countries of To provide core support to unaccompanied child migrants Wildlife SOS, an organisation who face the risk of being founded in 1995 to protect repatriated to dangerous and conserve India's natural situations. heritage, forest and wildlife. Thorn WWF International USD 500,000 (24 months) USD 396,040 (36 months) To support Thorn in its To provide young people with continued development, an opportunity to engage in roll-out and maintenance of the conservation of the a technological tool called environment through 'Solis', which fights child internship programmes in sexual exploitation on the WWF's offices around the dark web. world and to develop the world's future leaders in sustainable development. 62 JOINT BRAZIL Joint Brazil

The Joint Brazil Programme (JBP) was launched in 2016. Five Oak Programmes work together to address issues that affect people with limited resources in the Recife Metropolitan area in Brazil. The programme focuses on promoting citizen security and participation, protecting © Letícia Souza © Letícia urban spaces and improving mobility among disadvantaged 1 communities.

We aim to improve the lives of the most marginalised communities by promoting inclusive, efficient, democratic processes that operate in the best interests of all citizens of the Recife Metropolitan area, irrespective of gender, age or socio-economic position. JOINT BRAZIL 63

2 dos Pimpadores © Movimento 3 Foundation © Virginia Ruan/Oak

The founder of Movimento dos City life: from Pimpadores, Thiago Mundano, calls people like Sebastião “true the bottom up environmentalists – invisible 11 superheros”. Throughout Recife, there For 22 years, Sebastião Duque has are many organisations and individuals grants were made cleared recyclable materials like bottles quietly working behind the scenes to by the Joint Brazil from streets and mangroves in Recife, combat often invisible, yet vital, issues Programme Brazil, and sold them to make a living. affecting Recife’s citizens. For example, in 2017, totalling Guilherme Melles created Quebrando o USD 2.05 million. "Since the mangrove Tabu (Breaking the Taboo), a Facebook page designed to increase awareness never gets cleaned, about human rights violations in Brazil. I try to do that cleansing by collecting. An area like this – flooded in mud – is a cold, forgotten area with no local support or anything."

- Sebastião Duque Ecological recycler of waste and member of Movimentos dos Pimpadores

Not only has Sebastião devoted his life to recycling waste ecologically, he has also invested the proceeds back into the community. His hard-earned money was behind the construction of New Hope 1. A peaceful Amigos do Casarão School, attended by around 100 local protest against attempts to remove the children, as well as more than a dozen residents of Casarão da Tamarineira: an houses for families previously living in abandoned house in downtown Recife, cardboard huts, and the organisation of where 22 families have lived legally for many social events. Sebastião’s tireless more than 20 years. service has not gone unnoticed by his community and he is now a member of 2. The Movimento dos Pimpadores Movimento dos Pimpadores, a global is a global movement that strives to movement that strives to promote, promote, through art, the invaluable through art, the invaluable work of work of waste collectors. waste collectors like himself. 3. For 22 years, Sebastião Duque has cleared recyclable materials from streets and mangroves in Recife, Brazil, and sold them to make a living. 64 JOINT BRAZIL

Rebeca Lerer helped launch Fogo Cruzado (Crossfire), an application which collaboratively tracks gun violence around metropolitan regions in Brazil. Isabel Cavalcante with Meu Recife (My Recife) successfully campaigned to have cycle lanes built in Recife to help curb traffic in the city.

What we do Oak Foundation’s Joint Brazil Programme (JBP) champions the rights, ideals and beliefs of passionate, committed and inspirational organisations and individuals, like Sebastião, Mundano, Guilherme, Rebeca and Isabel who are working to improve the lives of the most marginalised people in Recife.

"Recife is almost a microcosm of Brazil. All of the biggest issues of Brazil are really well represented here. On one hand this is challenging, on the other it also provides a pool of opportunities."

- Mariana Ribeiro Communications and projects director, Nossas

It is these opportunities that the JBP is looking to capitalise on, especially given the lack of funding generally received by the northeast region of Brazil. “Recife has a vibrant and creative civil society,” says Adrian Arena, chair of the JBP. “We hope that our support in Recife will continue to inspire other funders to join us.” All of the organisations mentioned in this article have benefited from grants from JBP, and are representative of its goals and aims. The Joint Brazil Programme currently focuses on four key programme areas: citizen security, mobility, quality urban space and citizen participation.

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Citizen Security Fundo ELAS aims to integrate a gender perspective into ongoing JBP seeks to improve citizen’s safety discussions in Brazil around mobility. in both public and private spheres Through hosting a series of convening 300: by helping to: protect women, youth and dialogue sessions, ELAS has built and children from violence and bridges between women’s rights The number of exploitation; build broad-based public organisations and groups working support groups for campaigns to change the narrative on mobility. “One of our convenings women and girls around misrepresented communities; included a debate with women in Recife currently run by and develop and implement police on topics including: sexual harassment Fundo ELAS. and criminal justice reform strategies. on public transportation; violence in Gabinete de Assessoria Jurídica às public spaces; racism and human rights Organizações Populares (GAJOP) is a violations in favelas; and limited public civil society organisation that advocates transportation for domestic workers,” for the promotion and defence of says Amalia Fischer, general coordinator human rights. "This is a very important for ELAS. “Through these convenings we time for organisations that advocate have learned that addressing mobility for human rights in Recife," says Deila and gender will help many people.” Martins, executive coordinator of GAJOP. Particularly influential in the areas of justice and security, GAJOP has Quality urban space helped to reform Brazil’s security and Oak supports organisations that work justice systems and advocated for a to protect the quality of urban space, new police service which emphasises particularly for vulnerable communities better relationships between the who would otherwise lack the capacity community and police. Over the past to confront developers and negotiate 12 months, GAJOP has put pressure on with government. the government to establish a council to review a controversial Brazilian programme called Pact for Life, which rewards police officers for fulfilling imprisonment quotas.

1. Members of the Movimento dos Mobility Trabalhadores Sem Teto are protesting violations of their right to housing. To assist its vision of improving mobility for all in Recife, JBP supports 2. The Movimento Ocupe Estelita organisations that promote a people- banner reads "It's our city, let's occupy centred vision for transport and it!" The movement is a manifestation of develop projects and research that the oppressed and exploited peoples of demonstrate the positive impact of Recife speaking out against inequalities citizen participation in transportation. in society. 66 JOINT BRAZIL vimento dos Pimpadores vimento 1 2 © Laércio Portela / Marco Zero Conteúdo Zero / Marco © Laércio Portela © Mo

The Centro Popular de Direitos stigmatisation of civil society by the Humanos (CPDH) has, among other mainstream press as anti-business and projects, been influential in securing anti-development. It seeks to encourage 3,000: the rights of Recife’s disadvantaged a more inclusive, rules-based, urban communities with respect to urban development for all. The number of development, housing, employment and families whose participation. forced eviction from their homes "We believe that A way forward was prevented by we can build a fairer In May 2017 we brought together our the Centro Popular and more egalitarian society partners in Brazil to connect and to de Direitos develop joint strategies together. by advocating for the human Humanos. rights of exploited popula- "It is time to strengthen our fight, to think about our actions and to work tions and empowering them." together to reach our goals," said Deila Martins from GAJOP. - Luana R. Varejão Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos We couldn't agree more! We look forward to working with our partners Last year, CPDH prevented the forced in the years to come and thank them eviction of around 3,000 families from for their tireless efforts. properties zoned for redevelopment and is currently supporting lawsuits addressing other housing issues

Citizen participation 1. The investigative journalism agency The fourth key programme area JBP Marco Zero Conteúdo captured this focuses on is citizen participation, powerful moment showing women with the aim of promoting access protesting sexual and gender-based to information and encouraging violence in Recife. Their banner reads government and civil society to "crimes against women are not crimes be proactive in investigating and of passion." After this protest, the term negotiating policy options. Marco "feminicídio" was accepted by the courts Zero Conteúdo (Ground Zero Content) of Brazil. is an investigative journalism agency 2. A waste collector with Movimento that covers local news in its totality, dos Pimpadores. inclusive of civil society voices, and provides informed comment after 3. Fundo ELAS works to integrate a scrutinising and testing claims made by gender perspective around mobility other mainstream media. Marco Zero in Brazil by linking women’s rights Conteúdo challenges the prevailing organisations and groups working on mobility. JOINT BRAZIL 67 Grants

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Agencia Publica Escola de Ativismo Marco Zero Conteúdo USD 349,994 (36 months) USD 400,000 (36 months) USD 100,000 (12 months) To provide core support to To provide core support to To highlight the Joint Brazil Agencia Pública to promote Escola de Ativismo and Programme issues through high quality, non-partisan strengthen groups working the production of multi-media investigative journalism in to defend democracy, content and its distribution Brazil to help strengthen sustainability and human through an online news Brazilian democracy. rights. portal and social media. Audisa Auditores Fundo Socioambiental Spray Filmes S.S. Associados S/S CASA USD 50,000 (12 months) USD 51,000 (12 months) USD 191,902 (36 months) To support an online, To conduct 10 international- To enable Fundo multi-media portal called standard financial audits Socioambiental CASA to “Breaking the Taboo”, which (in Portuguese and English) provide capacity building amplifies the work of JBP of Oak's Joint Brazil support to Ação Comunitária grantees. Programme grantees. Caranguejo Uça to further its work in building a fair Baobá – Fundo para and equal society which Equidade Racial contributes positively USD 242,104 (17 months) to people and communities. To provide support to Afro-Brazilian civil society Instituto Betty organisations that develop e Jacob Lafer and implement inspiring USD 30,000 (12 months) initiatives focused on To bring together grant- citizen participation. making organisations in Brazil and to mobilise resources Casa da Mulher do from high-income private Nordeste individuals, with the aim of USD 300,000 (36 months) increasing the culture and To provide core support to practice of philanthropy Casa da Mulher do Nordeste around social causes. to strengthen the economic and political autonomy of Instituto Update women. USD 240,000 (12 months) To support Instituto Update Centro Popular de to promote democratic Direitos Humanos (CPDH) practices in Brazil by mapping USD 95,000 (10 months) and giving visibility to To provide core support to initiatives that strengthen CPDH to secure the rights citizen participation of the city and the freedom processes. of expression of Recife’s disadvantaged communities.

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The Indian Government provides safety nets for the most vulnerable, but many people find it hard to access them because of social and geographical barriers. We recognise that it will take time to make these provisions readily accessible for everyone and hope to assist in this process.

In the Joint India Programme, five Oak programmes work

together to address a combination of issues that affect and Policy Development for Transportation © Institute populations with limited access to resources in Jharkhand and West Bengal, located in east India. Ultimately, we aim to: improve the lives of the most marginalised groups; institutionalise practices that address poverty and social injustice; support people to assert their rights to identity and dignity; and build strong organisations at the grassroots. JOINT INDIA 69 © Kristian Parker / Oak Foundation / Oak © Kristian Parker Foundation / Oak © Kristian Parker

for their work are both unhygienic and Inclusive cities: unhealthy, lacking basic amenities such sustainable urban as toilets. 15 "I am keen on learning development grants were made but the majority of by the Joint India for all rickshaw pullers are unaware Programme in of their rights. Once they are 2017, totalling As India and other developing countries fully empowered, they too will USD 4.53 million. grow, many people flock to the cities to dream of a better tomorrow, find work. Limited town planning results like I do." in burgeoning metropolises – such as - Dasreth Oraon the capital city of Ranchi in Jharkhand. Rickshaw puller Many people in Jharkhand would benefit Jharkhand from better quality infrastructure, improved access to facilities, social Maitri launched Project Adhikar in security opportunities and shelter. Oak 2015 to improve the lives of between supports organisations which work with 12,000 and 15,000 rickshaw pullers the government and state authorities in the Ranchi Municipal Corporation. to enable citizens to claim their legal Maitri facilitates their access to citizens’ entitlements and empower people to entitlements including healthcare, build inclusive and sustainable cities, better living conditions, sanitation and which reduce pollution and improve financial inclusion. their health and quality of life. Our partners do this in a variety of ways, including through improved air quality and safer public transport systems, in particular for women, children and the elderly.

P68: The Institute for Transport and Development Policy works with Strengthening men in cities to develop sustainable transport the informal sector solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve quality of life for Rickshaw pulling is an example of a clean people in urban settings. method of transport which also provides incomes to migrant men coming from P69: Oak supports organisations in India marginalised communities in the which strengthen men working in the countryside or other states in India. informal sector. This includes Maitri, Often these men live in impoverished which launched Project Adhikar in 2015 conditions and the garages they use to improve the lives of between 12,000 and 15,000 rickshaw pullers in Ranchi. 70 JOINT INDIA

Project Adhikar informs these men about relevant services and platforms to collectively demand improvement in their living and working conditions. It also works to instil a sense of identity, dignity and respect among rickshaw pullers.

Protecting children Access to justice is a fundamental fea- ture of any democracy but can seem un- attainable for those who cannot afford a lawyer to represent them. In India, where approximately one in five people live below the poverty line, navigating the legal system can be challenging. The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a group of lawyers and social activists dedicated to the use of the legal system to advance constitutional rights in India. Collaborating with more than 200 lawyers, paralegals and activists across 26 states, HRLN provides pro bono legal services to those who have little or no access to the justice system. Among the many causes that HRLN champions, one of its priorities is public interest litigation. This enables the judiciary to look at key social issues in a broader context than an individual case provides.

"Many people in India struggle to access quality legal representation. Lawyers, like those provided by the Human Rights Law Network, ensure that the system also works for them." - Greg Mayne Programme Officer Oak Foundation

This approach can lead to decisions that produce far-reaching, systemic change. One of HRLN’s successes with public interest litigation resulted in the Court ordering the state of Jharkhand in the east of India to reserve 25 per cent of places in schools for disadvantaged children. This ruling has opened up opportunities for some of Jharkhand's most vulnerable groups. © Rachel McKee / Oak Foundation / Oak © Rachel McKee JOINT INDIA 71 © Rachel McKee / Oak Foundation / Oak © Rachel McKee Foundation / Oak © Rachel McKee / Oak Foundation / Oak © Rachel McKee

Preventing with local tribal and disability rights activists and other organisations, homelessness has joined hands with the Ranchi and Jagori believes Hazaribagh police and the One Stop that women's While the extent of homelessness Centre in Ranchi (which provides women safety is rooted in in Jharkhand has not yet been in distress with temporary shelter and inclusivity. documented, it is a very real possibility other assistance). It works with the for people with limited resources police, women's migrating for work, and others forced to The Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) shelters and works to empower women from the live as destitute due to chronic poverty. activists groups By carrying out studies to understand informal sector to make sure their voices to reach as many the reality of homelessness for people are heard and considered when new women as possible. in Ranchi and across Jharkhand, Ekjut policies that affect them are made. supports government officials to deal with the problem through training and inter-departmental actions. Ekjut staff also work directly with the homeless "It was very hard before, on the streets to inform them of their carrying bricks and entitlements as citizens and to help mixing cement. We didn't even them gain access to those rights. get properly paid. Now I am happy to learn new skills. It gives me confidence. Maybe Empowering women one day I can build my own house!" Women from marginalised communities - Female construction worker are coming to cities in increasing Karmika Training Centre numbers in search of work, education Mahila Housing SEWA Trust or to join their husbands as casual labourers. They often face extreme forms of exclusion and violence and are pushed to the peripheries of the city as invisible workers – without any access to benefits, or even knowledge of their legal entitlements. Jagori has worked for more than 30 years to end all forms of violence against women and build strong women’s community collectives. Jagori believes that women’s safety is rooted in inclusivity. This includes P70 & P71: The Mahila Housing women's rights to the city and their SEWA Trust (MHT) trains women in autonomy of movement in public the informal sector to work in jobs spaces and right to safety at all times. traditionally dominated by men, such To strengthen its work, Jagori, along as brick-laying and plastering. 72 JOINT INDIA © Rachel McKee/Oak Foundation © Rachel McKee/Oak

MHT helps build women's collectives Building strength to strengthen their requests for secure The Institute for housing, water, sanitation and tenurial through collaboration Transportation security in the slums. This includes We believe that a collaborative approach Development training women construction workers is fundamental to building lasting and Policy in jobs that are traditionally dominated solutions. finds ways to by men, such as brick-laying, plastering, minimise traffic hand-pump restoration and toilet unit “Partners working on different issues and streamline construction. As a result, women earn formed an informal network called parking in Ranchi, more and are employed for longer, the Ranchi Urban Partnership to share so that the city increasing their incomes. information, support each other centre stays and advocate collectively on issues accessible concerning urban poor,” says Paromita for all. Chowdhury, programme officer for Oak’s Joint India Programme. “With Reducing greenhouse time, organisations not funded by Oak gases are part of this forum as well. This is indeed an exciting time for us and our The Institute for Transportation partners.” Development and Policy (ITDP), along with its network partners, works with cities to develop sustainable transport solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve quality of life for people in urban settings. The ITDP team works to raise awareness about sustainable cities that are equitable and inclusive for all people. It also generates reports that inform city and state transport plans. ITDP has helped the Department of Urban Planning to adopt an inclusive transport development policy. This includes a parking system designed to minimise traffic and streamline parking. P72: Oak supports partners who aim to This will allow everyone equal access improve the lives of as many people as to the street, from street vendors to they can in Jharkhand and West Bengal. car owners. The State Government has This includes supporting partners such published parking regulations based as the Institute for Transportation on ITDP's suggestions. Development and Policy, which works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. P73: The Mahila Housing SEWA Trust works to empower women working in the informal sector. JOINT INDIA 73 Grants rust © Mahila Housing SEWA T © Mahila Housing SEWA © Mahila Housing SEWA Trust © Mahila Housing SEWA

Azad Foundation Columbia Group for OXFAM USD 465,566 (36 months) Children in Adversity USD 453,773 (24 months) To train women in Kolkata to USD 55,000 (5 months) To support communities in 45 be professional drivers to To develop, test and villages from Jharkhand, India enable them to secure share community-led to sustain their livelihoods. economically viable approaches that strengthen livelihoods. child protection mechanisms Save the Children India in Jharkhand. - Bal Raksha Bharat Basic Foundation USD 466,121 (36 months) USD 337,196 (36 months) Columbia Group for To strengthen the To strengthen response Children in Adversity Integrated Child Protection services for women and girls USD 408,115 (36 months) Scheme in order to reach affected by gender-based To use community-led children and families by violence in Jharkhand. approaches to sustain the training and placing a cohort wellbeing of children by of Community Cadres at the Bindrai Institute for enabling communities to Panchayat level in selected Research Study and Ac- exercise greater power districts of Jharkhand and tion (BIRSA) and responsibilities. West Bengal. USD 49,719 (12 months) To continue to support Hope and Homes SEWA Bharat the work of BIRSA Mines for Children USD 325,000 (36 months) Monitoring Centre to USD 447,000 (36 months) To strengthen and expand strengthen its actions To strengthen child protection the interventions to reduce in Jharkhand. systems, policies and capacity poverty among marginalised in Jharkhand to prevent the women and girl bidi rollers Centre for Science unnecessary separation of and domestic workers in and Environment children from their families. West Bengal. USD 397,945 (36 months) To support the work of Center Institute for for Science and Environment Transportation and to ensure effective DMF Development Policy implementation in key USD 600,000 (36 months) states in India. To support the creation of high-quality transport systems Child in Need Institute - that make cities more liveable, Jharkhand Unit (CINI) equitable and sustainable. USD 27,330 (5 months) To strengthen CINI's Legal Initiative for organisational systems on Forest and Environment alternative approaches to (LIFE) childcare in Jharkhand, India. USD 308,665 (36 months) To provide core support in Child Rights and You order to improve, strengthen USD 100,000 (36 months) and build LIFE as a leading To build grant compliance environmental legal justice, and administration capacity research and evidence-based among Oak grantees in India advocacy organisation in India with the ultimate aim of and South Asia. ensuring transparency and accountability. This is a list of grants approved in 2017. For a comprehensive list and full descriptions, please visit our website at www.oakfnd.org 74 DENMARK Denmark

The Denmark Programme is national in scope. In this programme, we provide grants to organisations in Denmark

and Greenland. Foundation © Virginia Ruan/Oak

We seek innovative solutions that improve the daily lives and future prospects of socially vulnerable and marginalised groups. In particular, we focus on initiatives that target ethnic minority women, homeless people, mothers, children, immigrants and refugees. DENMARK 75 © Baba © Baba

weekend where fathers come together Stories to develop practical action plans to become more active and engaged The stories within this section represent in their children’s lives. “Like other 16 the diverse range of grants within the change-management courses, it is Denmark Programme. built on cases, much like leadership grants were made development courses,” says Asim. “We by the Denmark also encourage open dialogue with Programme in Baba: empowering teachers, school principals and nurses 2017, totalling fathers who care for children, as well as peer- USD 4.99 million. to-peer support.” "To me it is important that my children “When I started the project three years do not think of me like a tough banana ago, it was not easy,” Asim said, “Since the day I'm not here anymore," says one there had been many failed attempts father who participates in Baba, a course at developing fatherhood courses in the that helps fathers take a more active past in Denmark, I spent four months role in their children’s lives. "My 14- speaking with 1,286 fathers to find year-old has told her mother that I have out where to start.” Asim learned a lot become happier, more aware and open in this process, which has helped him and that I do not shout so much recruit participants. “Although anymore." recruitment has been the biggest Baba is a not-for-profit organisation challenge, we have made an impact based in Copenhagen that works with a and it has become easier as the word local group of volunteers to help fathers spreads,” he said. play more active roles in their children’s When the course ends, fathers often lives. Research suggests that children take on leadership roles in their who are raised by engaged fathers have communities to help other fathers. a stronger sense of wellbeing and are “For example, one group of fathers less likely to get involved in crime or developed a brochure on how fathers to develop addictive habits.1 can be involved in their children’s lives "I take fathers to a graveyard and ask during their first year after birth,” says them to imagine that they are the Asim. “And nurses in hospitals are now ones buried deep in the grave," says sharing this brochure with fathers.” Asim Latif, the executive director of Baba. "Then I ask them to imagine that their children are visiting them at their graves." At this moment Asim asks the fathers: "What do you want your children to remember about you?" The response that fathers give to his The photos in the Denmark section question becomes the vision statement of the Annual Report illustrate some for a course on fatherhood. The course of the diverse work carried out by our Find out more at includes nine Saturdays and one full partners in Denmark. www.oakfnd.org 76 DENMARK © Virginia Ruan/ Oak Foundation © Virginia Ruan/ Oak Foundation © Virginia Ruan/ Oak

Project UDENFOR When the data was released, UDENFOR Project UDENFOR is a not-for-profit staff and volunteers used chalk to draw It is estimated the shapes of 225 human beings on that between organisation that works with homeless people in Denmark. UDENFOR is Danish the ground in front of the Government 10,000 and 15,000 Office responsible for homelessness. homeless people for "outside". "We are called ‘outside’ because all of our work takes place “We wanted the government to do more live in Denmark. outdoors and we operate outside of to support young homeless people,” These include the government structure," says Ninna says Ninna. In addition, staff at Project women and young Hoegh, director of Project UDENFOR. UDENFOR have worked with youth to people. "We have been operating for 20 years elevate their own voices. For example, in the two largest cities in Denmark, they brought together homeless youth Project UDENFOR Copenhagen and Aarhus," she says. to write and publish poetry about how reaches out to they feel. them in several With the help of about 40 volunteers Other data that has been released ways, including and 20 staff members, Project in recent times includes a sharp increase through a mobile UDENFOR has many outreach activities. in the number of women who are café and public These include: a mobile café, which takes warm clothes and healthy, homeless – they now account for nearly outreach and 25 per cent of the homeless population. advocacy work. delicious food to the homeless in various parts of Copenhagen; public “Our hope is to understand these outreach and advocacy work; and women’s needs to help overcome research. “We build relationships with stereotypes and support them,” says the homeless and help them based on Anne-Sofie Wieland Maini-Thorsen, their needs; sometimes this is a warm an anthropologist hired to conduct cup of coffee and a conversation and research on this topic. other times it involves a trip to hospital,” Oak has supported Project UDENFOR explains Ninna. since 2013. Data1 from 2011 suggests that there are 6,000 homeless people in Denmark. Poem written by a young “However, this count has generally only homeless person included the homeless in shelters,” says Ninna. Experts estimate that between Fornemmelsen af at falde 10,000 and 15,000 homeless people live Uden at ramme Jorden in Denmark, about half of whom are in Som et mess the Copenhagen metropolitan area. Af følelser “We work with the government to The feeling of falling understand what these numbers mean Without touching the ground and to count the homeless population Is like a mess accurately,” she says. Of confusion. Last year, data was released which confirmed that there are more than 225 young homeless people in Copenhagen. References: Please see page 84 of this report. DENMARK 77 Grants © Virginia Ruan/ Oak Foundation © Virginia Ruan/ Oak © Baba

BABA - Fonden Fonden project Kirkens Korshær Muhabet for Socialt Ansvar UDENFOR USD 74,037 (12 months) USD 496,422 (24 months) USD 42,796 (12 months) USD 25,849 (12 months) To establish group activities To support Muhabet, a drop-in To provide support to Baba, To support UDENFOR to raise in Nordborg and its centre for mentally ill and which helps fathers in awareness around the issue of surroundings, a region with traumatised people that Copenhagen take more active homeless women in Denmark. high unemployment, in focuses on helping asylum roles in their children’s lives. order to benefit socially seekers, refugees and Fødevarebanken disadvantaged people. migrants in particular. D-factor, VerdensBørn USD 829,529 (36 months) i samarbejde med To support Fødevarebanken, Københavns Universitet Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen FO-Århus a not-for-profit foodbank, – Forskningscenter for USD 413,695 (12 months) USD 23,716 (12 months) which works to reduce food Migration, Etnicitet og To provide support to Sankt To support D-factor, waste and help socially Sundhed Lukas Stiftelsen’s project VerdensBørn FO-Århus, disadvantaged people. USD 110,371 (24 months) Lukashuset, which provides a theatre group for young To provide support to the holistic care to palliatively ill people. Horton Danish Research Centre for children and support to their Hovedpineforening Migration, Ethnicity and families. USD 213,980 (12 months) Dansk Kvindesamfunds Health at Copenhagen To provide support to Krisecenter University by carrying out USD 198,483 (12 months) Horton Hovedpineforening, research on children being To support Dansk which works to ensure that born to undocumented Kvindesamfunds Krisecenter members who are ill remain migrants in Denmark. to establish a new shelter for active and have good living mothers and their children. conditions. Landsorganisation af Kvindekrisecentre Dansk Stalking Center ISHTAR (LOKK) USD 998,125 (36 months) USD 499,287 (36 months) USD 316,049 (24 months) To support Dansk Stalking To support a group of women To support the reconstruc- Center to prevent and reduce of ethnic minority to develop tion of LOKK – a group of the impact of stalking on their shop into a gourmet crisis centres in Denmark – to victims and their families, food store in Nørrebro in become a modern, sustainable including children of victims Copenhagen. and more business-oriented of stalking. Jyske Bank – MurMal organisation. Fonden Mødrehjælpen USD 74,151 (12 months) Mary Fonden USD 428,161 (36 months) To bring young people USD 248,217 (24 months) To support Fonden together around a project To support Kattunneq, which Mødrehjælpen in Aalborg, to design a wall mural for builds the capacity of Denmark, to provide a holistic an old people’s home in the women’s shelters in programme of support for city Kommune Kujalleq in the Greenland. young pregnant women and south of Greenland. young mothers.

This is a list of grants approved in 2017. For a comprehensive list and full descriptions, please visit our website at www.oakfnd.org. 78 ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Programme is national in scope. It funds local organisations involved in caring and providing for the

most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Zimbabwean F Kapnek Trust /J. © Alex Cooke society.

We support organisations operating in the following priority areas: healthcare, including HIV/AIDS; rural water supplies; special needs education; and services that help vulnerable women, children and elderly persons. ZIMBABWE 79

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In Zimbabwe, the Family AIDS Caring Stories Trust Chiredzi has been working towards a HIV-free Zimbabwe since 1992. Some The stories within this section represent of the services it provides include health 15 the diverse range of grants within the examinations at schools, education Zimbabwe Programme. programmes on HIV for children and grants were made adults, and PMTCT treatment. by the Zimbabwe Programme in Established in 1989 by Sister Noreen 2017, totalling Nolan, the Mashambanzou Care Trust Progress in the fight USD 0.97 million. provides care and support to people against HIV/AIDS living with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS in Harare. The Mashambanzou Care When Mrs Magaba tested positive for Unit is a drop-in medical facility that HIV, she thought there was no hope for provides HIV testing services, her to have a healthy baby. However, counselling and self-help programmes when the Family AIDS Caring Trust for HIV-positive women. "We can see of Chiredzi made Prevention of the difference in the women who take Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) part," says Sister Margaret, one of the treatment available at a nearby clinic, sisters who works for Mashambanzou Mrs Magaba signed up. She took the Care Unit. "They start to open up; there treatment, brought her son to term is light in their eyes." and gave birth. When tested for HIV six months later, the baby boy tested The Family Action for Community negative for HIV. "Right now my child is Empowerment in Zimbabwe (FACE) healthy," said Mrs Magaba. "He is eating works to improve the livelihoods and well and he is no longer on medication." health of people in Rusape, Zimbabwe. FACE addresses this through its Mrs Magaba’s son’s success story is one income-generating programme, which of many. PMTCT treatment has been provides courses to members of the successful in reducing transmission rates community on food security, medical of HIV from mother to child in Africa training and sustainable livelihood and around the world. According to the methods. It also provides support World Health Organization, PMTCT groups for people at risk of contracting reduces the transmission of HIV HIV. between mother and child to less than five per cent1. "I really appreciate the “FACE is doing great work,” says service providers at the clinic for the Merciful Machuwe, programme officer lessons and training we receive," said for Oak’s Zimbabwe Programme. Mrs Magaba. "Right now we are looking forward to a bright future."

Find out more at References: Please see page 84 of this report. www.oakfnd.org 80 ZIMBABWE © Dance Trust Zimbabwe Trust © Dance © Alex Cooke /J. F Kapnek Trust /J. © Alex Cooke

“It has not only proved to be a haven 60 years of dance and resource for many people but also Prevention of a springboard to restart their lives.” To mark six decades of its work, Dance Mother to Child Trust Zimbabwe has been partnering Transmission with international organisations to (PMTCT) "In the last 15 years, showcase the impact dance and the treatment the programme has Trust has made on Zimbabwe’s Harare reduces the grown from one small community. transmission clinic to 850. More than of HIV from Not only has the Trust provided the 250,000 women are now community with exciting, international mother to child opportunities, but it has opened doors to less than tested for HIV each year." for many aspiring artists, dancers and - Dr. Daniel Robbins choreographers to launch into J.F.Kapnek Trust international careers. Leah Nelson is a Zimbabwe-born 5 % dancer who, through her connection to The J.F.Kapnek Trust works to reduce the Dance Trust of Zimbabwe, won a child mortality and creates educational scholarship to study performing arts in opportunities for Zimbabwean youth. the United States. She is happy to see that increasing numbers of children in To achieve these goals, the Trust Zimbabwe are learning about ballet. operates an HIV/AIDS prevention programme in Zimbabwe and provides “The quality of their work is just financial support to thousands of phenomenal,” says Leah. “I am also really orphans and disabled children. happy to see several male dancers venturing into classical dance and taking “Most paediatric HIV comes from it seriously – something which was rare mother to child transmission at to see when I started pursuing a career birth,"says Dr. Daniel Robbins. “So we in dance.” developed the national programme, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV."

The photographs in the Zimbabwe section of this report have been provided by our partners and illustrate the diverse work being carried out in Zimbabwe. ZIMBABWE 81 Grants © Alex Cooke /J. F Kapnek Trust /J. © Alex Cooke F Kapnek Trust /J. © Alex Cooke

Midlands AIDS NZEVE Deaf Children's HIV/AIDS Service Organization Centre Other Bethany Project USD 39,100 (12 months) USD 49,829 (12 months) Rotary Club Harare Dawn USD 72,854 (12 months) To create safer environments To increase access to early USD 9,188 (3 months) To mobilise communities to for children which ensure intervention healthcare for To buy medical equipment for promote the wellbeing of their care and protection deaf children and their use in some of Zimbabwe’s children affected by HIV/AIDS and support their growth families. hospitals. and development. in the south of Zimbabwe. Sir Humphrey Gibbs Family AIDS Caring National St Johns Training Centre Trust, Chiredzi Council for the Republic USD 17,369 (12 months) USD 31,195 (12 months) of Zimbabwe To promote and facilitate Women, To reduce the prevalence USD 67,579 (12 months) the provision of high quality of HIV/AIDS and mitigate its To continue to strengthen special needs education children and impact by empowering the care-giving skills of and care for adults with communities through training communities, families and intellectual disabilities at Sir elderly at risk and awareness raising. young people in healthcare Humphrey Gibbs Training so that they can help people Centre. Simukai Child Protection Family AIDS Caring infected with and by HIV/AIDS. Trust, Rusape Zimcare Trust Program USD 55,483 (12 months) USD 335,509 (12 months) USD 35,000 (12 months) To improve the quality of life To facilitate an environment To support the Simukai Child of people with HIV and AIDS in which all learning and care Protection Program to in the Makoni District of Special Needs programmes are anchored provide for the social, Manicaland Province and around individual needs so physical, psychological and Marondera, Mrewa, Mutoko Education that each person is assisted spiritual needs of vulnerable to excel. children and youth. and Mudzi Districts of Dance Trust of Zimbabwe Mashonal and East Province. (formerly National Ballet Island Hospice and of Zimbabwe) Bereavement Services USD 39,521 (12 months) USD 80,112 (12 months) To promote the art of dance To provide quality palliative in Zimbabwe. care services for the ill and Isheanesu Multi-purpose support to the bereaved Centre for Disabled through: comprehensive Children direct care; service USD 19,200 (12 months) provider capacity To provide support to children development; partnerships; with disabilities and their research; and advocacy. families. Mashambanzou J.F. Kapnek Trust Care Trust USD 53,493 (12 months) USD 64,557 (12 months) To renovate and refurbish To provide quality integrated classrooms at primary schools services and empower the in Zvimba District for the most vulnerable communities use of 200 children, and to to deal with HIV and AIDS. improve the health of 5,800 early childhood development This is a list of grants approved in 2017. students in Sanyati District. For a comprehensive list and full descriptions, please visit our grant database at www.oakfnd.org 82 Oak staff and addresses

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