WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE HIGHLIGHTS 19/20 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Power In Feminist Collaboration Image on cover: Girls in Kibera, supported to overcome sexual violence by Polycom Development Project. . Contents. PHOTO CREDIT: SARAH WAISA FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE.

04 17 Hear her speak: When times get tougher, Lynette’s story we get louder!

18 “It takes 06 Strengthening women’s Our impact 19/20 movements at a glance two flints 08 19 to make Our vision for change Hear her speak: Jane’s story a fire.” 10 How we make 20 change happen Diverse and thriving: Louisa May Alcott Why feminist collaboration American Novelist is essential to women’s 12 movements’ success Ending violence Image below: Women in Chapagaun, Nepal who were supported by Women for Human Rights to set up against women livelihood projects. 22 Womankind community: 13 Our partners Hear her speak: Semira’s story 24 Womankind community: 14 Our supporters Realising women’s economic rights 26 Womankind community: 15 Legacy Hear her speak: Peniah’s story

28 16 Thank you Championing women’s participation and leadership

PHOTO CREDIT: SAJANA SHRESHTA FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE.

2. 3. When times get tougher, we get louder! Women’s movements have the power to change the world. At the heart of the strongest most resilient and diverse movements is the desire to share, grow and learn through collaboration. Over the years, collaboration within and across movements have achieved things which at some point seemed insurmountable. From the introduction of domestic violence legislation in , to the increase in the number of women running for political office in Kenya, changes like these are only made possible through the collective action of women. Last year alone we saw women take to the streets to protest against violence, push for the adoption of laws that protect women in the workplace and lead the call for climate justice.

2020 marks 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint to achieving women’s rights. The power of working together towards a shared goal is evident in just how much has been achieved since 1995. Yet there is still much more to do.

We have seen that while there have been some wins for some women and girls, many more continue to face barriers to their rights. Just some women and girls realising their rights simply isn’t enough.

The events of 2020 have made the level of inequality, both within countries and between the Global North and South, painstakingly clear. As the first pandemic in 100 years swept the whole world, we’ve witnessed the disproportionate impact on women and girls. Women and girls have been faced with the increase in violence during lockdowns, an increase in unpaid care work as schools closed and seeing their livelihoods crumble at a disproportionate rate. Inequalities worsen for those who are more marginalised. For example, women of colour make up a huge proportion of public health employees and thus put their health at risk and at the same time often working long hours for little pay. It quickly became clear that while we were all in the same sea, some of us were in great ships ready to weather the storm while others were afforded little more than a lifejacket to keep us afloat.

Throughout the last 25 years it has been women’s movements who have responded to crises, innovating ways to support women and girls while lobbying governments to do more to ensure their rights are not erased. COVID-19 was no exception.

We know collaboration is the key to successful movements which is why in 2019-20 we continued our partnership approach, learning and sharing from, and with women’s rights organisations we partner with. We encouraged and facilitated greater collaboration between partners with shared missions and listened to what worked and what didn’t. We worked with 41 of our 45 partners to deliver 27 projects supporting women and girls across castes, disabilities and sexualities.

It is clear that despite the progress made since the Beijing Platform for Action, we are still a long way from achieving rights for women and girls in all their diversities. The global pandemic has been a wake-up call to much of the world. We must learn from COVID-19 and work together now, defiantly speaking truth to power and dismantling systems of oppression to realise the rights of women and girls, once and for all.

Image on the right: Womankind PHOTO CREDIT: WOMEN’S staff and supporters gathered for Maggie Baxter CBE COALITION OF ZIMBABWE. the International Women’s Day Chair of Trustees global strike 2020 in London, UK.

4. OUR IMPACT 19/20 at a glance

We worked more We shared our learnings with In the last year we have worked further towards our collaboratively than ever with practitioners and created tools aim of securing women’s rights through supporting for activists launching and strengthening feminist movements. We are 41 PARTNERS working closer than ever with partners, who in leading the 27 projects 4 PUBLICATIONS. turn are working more frequently with each delivered last year. other. Together we’re creating stronger, more unified movements.

15,180 individuals have been directly supported through our projects with partners. We supported 15 WOMEN AND GIRLS to access key decision making spaces and influence international policy.

Women’s movements can transform whole communities. In 2019/20

1,075,500 individuals were indirectly We demanded reform to impacted by international frameworks our work. by submitting over JOINT 15 STATEMENTS to world powers.s.

PHOTO CREDIT: SAJANA SHRESHTA Image on the left: Gita supported FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. by Women for Human Rights in Nepal.

Image on the right: A young woman speaks PHOTO CREDIT: BILLY MUTAI FOR at the Africa Beijing+25 regional review. WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. 6. 7. OUR VISION PHOTO CREDIT: ALEX MASSEY FOR FOR CHANGE WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE.

It is a woman’s right to live without fear of violence. She has the right to make decisions that impact her life. She has the right to own her home and control what happens to her land. No matter her caste, her sexuality or her disability.

Yet still, women are prevented from claiming these rights. Womankind and our partners are determined to change that.

Together with women’s movements Image above: Women at the International Women’s Day global strike 2020. we will change the world. We will shift the power. We do this because: We will achieve rights for all women. We work across five focus • Globally 1 in 3 women experience violence in their countries (, Kenya, Nepal, and Zimbabwe) to lifetime and women with disabilities are 2 to 4 times make change happen by focussing on: more likely to experience violence than women without • Ending all forms of violence against disabilities. women and girls. • Women spend at least twice as much time as men on • Realising women’s full economic rights unpaid care and domestic work. and control over resources.

ETHIOPIA • Fewer than 24% of parliamentarians worldwide are • Women having equal influence in women. decision making and ability to exercise political power. NEPAL Last year we worked with partners on: • Strengthening women’s UGANDA • 9 projects that focused on movements at national KENYA and international levels. and girls.

• 4 projects that focused on women’s economic rights.

ZIMBABWE • 12 projects that focused on women’s participation and leadership.

8. 9. HOW WE CAN Pillars in action: MAKE CHANGE Mapping and HAPPEN Intersectionality All women are impacted by gender inequality. However, many women face Women’s movements have the power to change the world, yet they additional discrimination based on other identities such as race, disability, age are often under resourced unable to harness their full power. Through sexual orientation etc. Through working in an intersectional way we ensure that we extensive consultation we have identified 7 key pillars needed to address the specific needs of different women, adapting methods to find solutions resource women’s movements and use them to guide the ways we that ensure no woman or girl is left behind. For example in Ethiopia we worked with collaborate with our partners. the Ethiopian Women’s Disabled National Association to address the barriers that specifically prevent women with disabilities from engaging socially, economically and politically.

Find out more about this project on page 14.

Our theory of change

Pillars in action: Connection between

movement actors

Activists working on changing society can be targeted in their homes, in public and in their workplaces as a way to scare them into stopping their activities. We support partners to provide safe spaces where activists can connect with one another and organise to advance women’s rights. These spaces are particularly needed for women most on the margins of society.

In Uganda we worked with Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) to create the first Uganda Lesbian Forum. A safe space where lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women could gather safely to heal, connect and plan for how to push for LBQ women’s rights nationally.

Learn more about FARUG on page 18.

10. Image on the right: Agness Chindimba, Director of Deaf Women Included, Zimbabwe. ENDING HEAR HER SPEAK: SEMIRA I want them to know that they are equal VIOLENCE to men and they can achieve anything

AGAINST “I was living with relativesINTRODUCTION in Addis and that is where my uncle’s wife brother was violent. I used to sleep in a small room that didn’t have a lock. I just had this strange feeling of anxiety all day and when I WOMEN went to sleep, I put a lot of jerrycans to block the door. Then just when I was starting to fall asleep, I Strong, inclusive women’s movements are an essential heard the jerrycans falling off because someone was element of preventing and responding to violence opening the door and I woke up. I realised it was him against women and girls. Last year we worked alongside when I opened my eyes and I started screaming …he held my mouth and raped me on my bed. He then partners strengthening women’s movements nationally threatened to kill me if I dare tell anyone. and enabling connections between movements at the global level. PHOTO CREDIT: CYNTHIA R MATONHODZE My uncle’s wife found me on the floor crying. I just FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. couldn’t tell them what happened although they were insisting I tell them. I didn’t want my family to find out because it would hurt them and I wanted to just end everything. I wanted to kill myself. In Nepal, the women’s movement is divided Women’s rights organisations rarely between older activists and younger activists, get the time and resources to plan I finally said his name and they took me to the which weakens the power of the movement strategically to ensure their survival hospital. They recommended I stay at AWSAD. to address issues like child marriage. LOOM’s and continued support of women I used to feel really down and I had no self-esteem. project ‘Konnect her’ aimed to end violence in their communities. Association But once I came to AWSAD and got to know against women by strengthening the women’s for Women’s Sanctuary and everyone and the way they support me, it felt like my movement - a powerful vehicle for change. Development (AWSAD) in Ethiopia second home. strengthened their organisation to Through workshops, LOOM facilitated continue to run their shelter for women The counselling service was very helpful. It made dialogues between different generations of who have experienced violence. me realise that I can be independent and start a activists. The space allowed them to share life outside the safe house. It helped me gain self- and document knowledge of the women’s Through networking at the World confidence. I also took self-defence class so I felt movement in Nepal. LOOM decreased Conference on Women’s Shelters, that I could protect myself. the generational gap between activists, AWSAD were able to use their new I also got different training during my stay at the supporting them to share power with each learnings to strengthen their strategic safe house. I took sewing training and passed my other and collaborate. Young women were planning. International networking and accounting certification exam as well. recognised as leaders and together with older a strengthened strategy ensures that activists formed a more united movement AWSAD can continue to deliver their I learned about pregnancy and sexual and with an agreed agenda to end violence services and support women who have reproductive health. I now understand the risks I against women and girls. experienced violence. may face and precautions I should take before I get into a relationship and start having sex. I now also understand what an abusive relationship is. I hope that women in the future will be able to We supported 12 partners across our focus countries to strengthen their advocacy efforts protect themselves and know that they can do as much as men can do. I want them to know that they in the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. The campaign is a key are equal to men and they can achieve anything.” global platform which brings together women’s rights organisations to strengthen their calls to end of violence against women and girls. Semira is supported by Association for Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) in Many partners were able to get their messages out to more people by using the media. Ethiopia. Organisations like AWSAD having the time For example Deaf Women Included held a press conference to advocate for specialist to network and plan ensures they are able to keep support for women with disabilities who face violence. the service which supports women like Semira alive. Partners also increased their engagement with decision makers who made greater Find out more on page 12. PHOTO CREDIT: MAHEDER HAILESELASSIE commitments to change. In Nepal Women for Human Rights reported that the police TADESE FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. wanted to collaborate with civil society to end harmful customary practices.

12. Image on the right: Semira, Ethiopia 13. Image on the right: Kedija, supported by Ethiopian Women with Disability National Association to start her own business. REALISING HEAR HER SPEAK: PENIAH When you are united, WOMEN’S your voice can be heard

ECONOMIC “When the government [compensation] programme came in, we thought we were going to relocate together, get money and be happy. But it is not as we thought. When men get the compensation they run away and leave women and children. As women RIGHTS we suffered, we did not gain. Children are not going to school, girls marry when they are young. We feel helpless and not happy. We women were dormant.

Women’s economic rights continue to be After [National Association for Professional Environmentalists] NAPE came we can now stand and refuse. When rich people come to buy my land I can stand and say: no, you threatened. Together with our partners we will not take my land. We know now that it is the family’s land, not men’s land. We have pushed to ensure women have control over come together – I can call a meeting and the women will come. their lives and livelihoods at national and international levels. PHOTO CREDIT: MAHEDER HAILESELASSIE Men have changed because they do not bring others to come and buy the land, as TADESE FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. they know that there are strong women here. Before NAPE helped us, women were dormant and couldn’t talk, especially if their husbands were there. But now – they talk! When you are united, your voice can be heard. Women with disabilities face a Since the project, leaders have committed to steps The pipeline is coming and I am disturbed and not comfortable. I feel tension, I don’t dual discrimination because of to enhance the inclusion of women with disabilities. know if it is coming past my land or not. But I feel happy that people believe in me and their gender and because of As well as this, women with disabilities now have a they believe what I say. We have begun to say that if you are compensating a man, a their impairment. In Ethiopia greater awareness of their rights and the confidence woman must also be present “ this means women with to demand change. disabilities are inhibited from Peniah, Uganda was supported by National Association for Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), through advice about being fully economically Currently in Uganda 300,000 women have been independent. her land rights she is able to stand strong with women in displaced by powerful corporations. They have been her community. Ethiopian Women with left without a home and without a livelihood, as Disabilities National many grow crops which they sell to sustain a living. Find out more about this project on page 14. Association worked The National Association for Professional towards the social and Environmentalists and National Association This project is funded by the UK Government as economic inclusion of for Women’s Action in Development are part of the UK Aid Match Programme. women with disabilities, working together to strengthen the eco-feminist through supporting women movement and protect the rights of women with disabilities to conduct affected by land grabs. Image below: Peniah, Uganda research and document One element of the multifaceted project is the their everyday experiences. pioneering mobile legal aid clinics where women The data collected then have been able to receive legal advice. The legal PHOTO CREDIT: ESTHER MBABAZI formed trainings to FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. raise awareness and clinics have resulted in women being able to seek recommendations justice for their land rights. Women are able to for government and receive compensation or, in some cases, return to community leaders. their land and reclaim their livelihoods.

Land grabs are not just happening in Uganda, but in countries all over the world. Which is why we have worked at the international level to end these and other human rights abuses carried out by corporations. Through engaging in the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights we ensure the specific impact of these abuses on women is acknowledged and addressed and inform international policy making. Until there is an international legal framework in place the most marginalised women will continue to bear the brunt of these human rights abuses. We work in collaboration with allies across movements to advocate for a robust legally binding treaty to hold corporations to account.

14. 15. Image to the right: Laxmi Ghalan, president of Mitini Nepal CHAMPIONING HEAR HER SPEAK: LYNETTE WOMEN’S I want women to be recognised as human beings who can be effective PARTICIPATION leaders in any position

AND LEADERSHIP “I am a passionate female politician who has been in active politics since the formation of my political party in 1999. As a young Decisions made without meaningful engagement politician I discovered that there was no of women fail to address the unique experiences of space for women to fully participate in elections. Men from both our political party women and undermine women’s rights. Last year and within our communities did not believe we worked with partners to continue to promote in being led by women. the inclusion of women at all levels of society. PHOTO CREDIT: MITINI NEPAL. Back then, during the Robert Mugabe era, as a political party, we were experiencing more of cross party political violence than internal In Zimbabwe women were increasingly In 2010 a change to the Kenyan constitution party violence especially during elections subject to violence from within their guaranteed the representation of women and this made me feel vulnerable. It was own political parties. With no real and marginalised groups in parliament. public knowledge that sexual harassment access to justice, women were being However, ten years later parliament is yet was happening in the workplace and in pushed out of participating in politics. to meet its quota of 30% women and 5% many spheres of our lives. people with disabilities. Through their project Women in This project has assisted me by Politics Support Unit (WIPSU) Women Challenged to Challenge strengthening my appreciation of the ensured that women in politics were have been leading the call for women causes and impact of sexual harassment better protected against sexual violence. with disabilities to finally be included especially at a political party level. It also WIPSU conducted research into the in political leadership, by bringing created an opportunity for our party to prevalence of internal party violence together women with disabilities for come up with an anti-sexual harassment and then used their findings to engage a two day conference in Nairobi. Here policy which is one of the policy documents politicians across political parties to they collaborated on strategies to that will assist women to compete fairly in increase understanding of the issue. make the constitution a reality and the upcoming 2023 elections. get more women with disabilities This resulted in all three political parties in decision making positions. The For me the formulation of this policy has committing to tackling violence against conference helped to establish been our greatest achievement because women in politics, each outlining their plans networks with the mainstream many times people highlight problems on how to do this. In the longer term this will women’s movement and but never get to the stage of putting remove a barrier to women entering politics, strengthen advocacy efforts mechanisms to solve them. I am happy increasing women’s political participation. to push for more women with because this anti-sexual harassment policy disabilities in parliament. articulates the need to institute a reporting desk that receives cases of violation of women in our party and also making sexual harassment a punishable offence. Too often decisions are made about women, without their input. This leads to their I want women to be recognised as human needs and experiences being ignored. In the last year we’ve continued to amplify our beings who can be effective leaders in any partner’s voices at key decision making spaces on the world stage. position. I hope that women will continue to Not only have we supported 15 women to join these spaces, we have supported them grow in confidence and tackle the monster to engage with policy makers and have their voices heard. For example at the UN of patriarchy and defeat it.” Binding Treaty negotiations FIDA Kenya and SIHA addressed state representatives. Lynette Karenyi, Zimbabwe is a politician Decisions made in these high level forums can help or hinder the rights and lives of who worked with Women in Politics women. The expertise of women from the Global South is essential to push through Support Unit to end sexual harassment of changes to support women’s rights. women politicians.

Find out more about this project on page 16. PHOTO CREDIT: WOMEN IN POLITICS SUPPORT UNIT.

Image on the right: Lynette, Zimbabwe. 16. 17. Image on the right: Peniah, supported by National Association of Professional Environmentalists to advocate against the impacts of the land grab in Uganda. STRENGTHENING HEAR HER SPEAK: JANE Reach out to the women who WOMEN’S have not been reached. MOVEMENTS “What I’m getting out of the regional review is that we still have a lot of gaps. My special interest is representation and participation of adolescent girls [in key decision making spaces] and I’m not hearing this coming out clearly [in the Beijing+25 review]. My Women’s movements have the power to drive intention is to bring these voice out. Right now we are talking about the 25 year review forward change in their communities and hold but in 25 years’ time if we are reviewing again, adolescent girls will be taking the spaces governments to account. Last year we worked where we are today. If we don’t involve them right now, it means we’re not going to get with partners to strengthen movements so far. that they can continue to change the world. My suggestion is the [regional] report that we come up with should address adolescent PHOTO CREDIT: ESTHER MBABAZI girls, their welfare, their representation and their participation. As an organisation we’ve FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. been able to take young women [to the regional review] and we hope they are going to take the conversation forward in their communities.

In Uganda the restriction on human rights and the lack of political will has made it near My takeaway from the meeting is the importance of inclusion, listening to the voices impossible to push through progressive laws that promote the rights of women and girls. of the marginalised in the community especially women with disabilities. I’d like to see people with disabilities who live in the slums being part of these conversations. To remedy this six partners collaborated to strengthen the women’s movement in order to push for these progressive laws. My advice to women’s rights organisations is to reach out to the women who have not been reached. What we realise is that we always see the same type of women, where are Partners collaborated through a number of activities to bring diverse and frequently the other women? Let’s reach out to them and let’s not forget girls – they are our future.” unheard voices to the table in a meaningful way. For example Freedom and Roam Uganda provided a platform for lesbian, bisexual and trans people through the Uganda Jane Anyango, Kenya is Director of Polycom Development Project, speaking at the Lesbian Forum. Together activists gained a joint understanding of the diverse needs of Africa regional review for the Beijing+25 process talking about the importance of different groups of women. This strengthened and unified movement is now better including diverse voices in the process. able to pressure government to promote women’s rights. Find out more about this work on page 18.

Image below: Jane, Director of Polycom Development Project, speaks at the Africa regional review for the Bejing+25 process. Often movements have the In 1995 world leaders adopted the most biggest impact when responding progressive blueprint on achieving

to women’s rights violations as women’s rights. The global review process PHOTO CREDIT: BILLY MUTAI they happen, so it’s important to is an opportunity to measure success and FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. strengthen movements to respond make recommendations on how to close in urgent situations. To do this gaps in attaining these rights. we pioneered a range of smaller movement strengthening initiatives We supported partners across our focus across our focus countries to countries to engage in the Beijing+25 support collective action. review process, through mobilising in their countries and communities and We invited partners to identify producing parallel reports as well as short term areas that could be engaging and influencing regional addressed to strengthen women’s reviews. At the regional reviews civil movements in their communities. society presented states with a number In Ethiopia we worked with the of recommendations on how to realise Ethiopian Women’s Disabled women’s rights. The lived realities of National Association to produce diverse women must be included in transformative feminist leadership this key international space. A strong workshop, which dispelled myths unified women’s movement is essential of feminism and strengthened to mobilise and push leaders to make leadership in the women’s movement. promises made 25 years ago a reality.

18. 19. ISSUE SPOTLIGHT: Women’s rights are human rights: collaborating across movements DIVERSE Across our international advocacy work we are continuing to build alliances to support a more equal world for all. In order to achieve women’s rights it is necessary to join forces with other groups campaigning on similar issues. Not only does this create larger movements that wield more power to influence AND THRIVING: decision makers, but it also helps these movements to be more gender aware. WHY FEMINIST COLLABORATION Last year we built on our advocacy work calling for a just feminist economy to IS ESSENTIAL TO WOMEN’S realise women’s rights, by working with tax justice groups such as the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. Through our work with the group we MOVEMENTS’ SUCCESS were able to highlight that not only do unfair tax systems contribute to greater inequalities between the rich and the rest of the world, but also that women are Collaboration underpins the way we work at Womankind. This has never been truer more likely to bear the brunt of the impact of these inequalities. than in the year 2019/20. The last year has seen increased numbers of our partners working together to design and deliver projects with a total of 41 out of 45 partners Collaborative, enriched, diverse working on the 27 projects delivered in the year. In our policy work we have also continued to work across movements to advance human rights in general and Women’s movements are the key to true transformative change. Only when women’s rights in particular. these movements are enriched with a multitude of experience and voices can they ensure that women and girls in all their diversities can realise their rights. We know collaboration is key to movement strengthening and with our partners Collaboration is the tool through which movements learn, grow and adapt to continue to explore ways of building diverse, resilient movements that ensure make women’s rights a reality. no woman or girl is left behind. Thriving women’s movements Women’s movements are at their strongest when people within a movement are working together sharing their knowledge and expertise. For over 30 years this has formed the basis of our approach – we work in equal partnership with Image below: Nomatter, Margret and Agness from women’s rights movements and organisations knowing they understand better Deaf Women Included in Gweru, Zimbabwe. than anyone the barriers to achieving women’s rights in their countries and communities. We encourage and facilitate, but never insist, our partners located in the same countries or regions work together collaboratively. Collaboration enriches women’s movements. Instead of movements being unaware of issues that impact more marginalised women, they open up to address diverse issues. We’ve seen this in I had only focused on violence. I had no Nepal with LOOM who used workshops and feminist storytelling to bridge the idea that sexuality and gap between young activists and more leadership also exists, and established activists in the movement. Not I feel free and eager to only were young women, an often excluded continue my work… these group, trusted to take up leadership kind of interactions has positions in movements but they also raised issues that other marginalised brought a lot of changes women face and included it on their in the women of the agendas. Collaboration brings the different community. factions of the movement together and establishes a more unified movement Sunita Sah, community leader strengthened in its resolve to on how her work has been broadened and enriched ensure the rights of all women through collaborating with and girls. younger activists.

PHOTO CREDIT: CYNTHIA R MATONHODZE FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE.

20. 21. WOMANKIND COMMUNITY OUR PARTNERS

We work in equal partnership with women’s rights organisations across our focus countries. They know better than anyone the barriers facing women in their communities and together we work to overcome them. Find out a little more about two of our partners. Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) is a national membership-based network of women’s rights activists and women’s organisations in Zimbabwe. It is a forum where women meet to engage in collective activism on issues affecting women.

Our partnership with Womankind provides us with Meet our organisation, Freedom and Roam Uganda practical support for strengthening coordination of (FARUG). We are the first Ugandan lesbian, bisexual and women’s movement in Zimbabwe and allows us to queer (LBQ) women’s membership organisation. Our create a platform for organising and supporting organisation is a place that feeds minds, bodies and women’s rights organisations and activists in souls and where the struggle for human rights and their diversities. Through this partnership dignity intentionally collide. We fiercely promote, we strengthen collaborative effort in the demand and protect the rights and wellbeing movement by fostering unity, solidarity and of LBQ women; most of whom are excluded, amplifying voices and demanding action for marginalised and exploited just because they women’s rights. exercise their right to choose whom to love. When women’s movements come together Our partnership with Womankind Worldwide driven by a common goal, they become means building a radical Ugandan lesbian powerful institutions, diverse in their feminism through the political acts of telling, nature and far more reaching in their documenting and sharing our stories as impact. WCoZ collaborates with other LBQ women. This act helps to shape and women’s rights and gender justice influence socio-political and socio- institutions through organised trainings, structural change by connecting the lobbying, advocacy and movement personal to the political. building. Through this collective power of the movement, communities can achieve Collaboration is crucial because the much-desired social change. intersectionality gives us a tool for finding ourselves in the various constituents that we are. As the Sally Ncube, symptoms of intersectional National coordinator, oppressions are connected, so Women’s Coalition are the solutions, connected of Zimbabwe at all layers of experience.

SSenfuka Joanita Warry, Executive Director Freedom and Roam Uganda

Image on the left: Image on the right: SSenfuka Joanita Warry Sally Ncube PHOTO CREDIT: FREEDOM AND ROAM UGANDA. PHOTO CREDIT: WOMEN’S COALITION OF ZIMBABWE.

22. 23. WOMANKIND COMMUNITY OUR SUPPORTERS

For over 30 years we have been generously supported by a range of

individuals and organisations who like us are passionate about women’s PHOTO CREDIT: REDONE N10. rights. Here are some from last year.

International Women’s Image above: Izzy, Sophia and Hannah raise money Day Gala from Womankind through their sustainable fashion brand. Held to celebrate International Women’s Day, the Womankind Gala 2020 was a huge success, raising Community support: £468,868. The night, hosted by feminist broadcaster upcycling for a better future Deborah Frances-White, was held in the iconic Natural History Museum. Izzy, Sophia and Hannah are a group of sixth form students who have been supporting Womankind since June 2019. Together, they make up the sustainable fashion brand Our inspirational keynote speaker was women’s rights activist ‘Redone N10’. They upcycle clothes and sell them at their school, local fairs and online, Theo Sowa, CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund. with all the profits going to Womankind! Huge thanks to our sponsors Goldman Sachs and Weil, Gotshall and Manges (London) LLP whose support helped us raise vital At the East Finchley festival last summer, they raised a fantastic funds for women’s rights. £200, and are soon to donate the profits from their recent online sales. We spoke to Izzy about how the group formed and why they were inspired to support Womankind.

How did Redone N10 start? Comic Relief supporting “We began the project due to our interest in sewing and sustainable fashion. We are also CARE in Zimbabwe strong feminist advocates, attending and helping to run our school feminist society, so decided to support a charity which works at improving the lives of women across the world.” In 2019 Womankind received a grant of £509,994 from Comic Relief for our What inspired you to support Womankind? project ‘Collective Action to Realise Equality (CARE): Feminist Movement Building in Zimbabwe’. In this three year project Womankind will work in partnership “We are so lucky to live in a country where we have access to resources and facilities with the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe and the Women in Politics which are vital to our daily life. Womankind supports women who don’t have these basic resources and support. As women we know how vital this work is. They also raise Support Unit to ensure the women’s movement in Zimbabwe is stronger, more awareness of these issues which allows people to understand and advocate for things to accountable to the women it serves and more inclusive of the wide range of women that change.” make up the movement. Through the project, leaders of the women’s movement will be strengthened to What advice would you give to young people collectively demand change and hold decision makers to account. Women elected who want to support a charity? and those aspiring to be elected will have strengthened skills to be better able to lead, “Just get involved! Anything you do will make such a difference so don’t be afraid to try... influence and be accountable to the women they represent. YOU CAN DO IT!”

24. 25. Image below: Anna and Peniah, supported by National Association of Professional Environmentalists to advocate WOMANKIND COMMUNITY against the impacts of the land grab in Uganda. LEGACY

At Womankind, we are incredibly humbled by the loyalty and commitment of our supporters. Frances has been a Womankind supporter since 2005 and, in 2015, she let us know that she would be leaving us a gift in her Will. She is one of over 330 people who have told us they will be remembering Womankind in this unique way

I decided to leave a legacy gift to Womankind because I admire their commitment to supporting girls and women by working in partnership with them. My gift is also an expression of gratitude to my parents, who worked hard to give me a good education at a time when educating girls was not seen as particularly important.

Frances, Womankind supporter

No matter how small or large a gift is, a gift in a Will has the power to shape a woman’s future. Thank you to Frances and to all of our supporters for your fantastic commitment to women’s rights.

PHOTO CREDIT: FRANCES.

PHOTO CREDIT: ESTHER MBABAZI FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE.

Image above: Frances, Womankind Supporter.

26. 27. THANK YOU

Our partners Our supporters Ambassadors ETHIOPIA • All donors and guests at Womankind’s Gala Dinner • Agnès Ayekpa • Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (AC-IPH) • Abercrombie and Kent • Baroness Helena Kennedy QC • Association for Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) • Baker McKenzie LLP • Dr Kate Young • Association of Women In Boldness (AWiB) • Breitling • Paloma Faith • Centre for Accelerated Women’s Economic Empowerment (CAWEE) • Cathy Moore • Zulekha Rahman

• Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) • Comic Relief • Ethiopian Women with Disability National Association (EWDNA) • Evan Cornish Foundation • Setaweet • Formula 1 • Siiqqee Women’s Development Association (SWDA) • Golden Goose • Goldman Sachs International KENYA • Helen Carter • Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya (FIDA Kenya) • Ing Foundation • Minority Women in Action (MWA) • Jane and Gavin Anderson • Polycom Development Project (Polycom) • Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP • Women Challenged to Challenge (WCC) • OptiBac Probiotics • Young Women’s Leadership Institute (YWLI) • Sir Halley Stewart Trust NEPAL • St Clare & St Francis Charitable Trust • Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO) • The Cruach Trust • LOOM • The Department for International Development (DFID) • Mitini Nepal • The Players of the People’s Postcode Lottery through the • National Indigenous Women’s Federation (NIWF) Postcode Equality Trust • Nepal Disabled Women’s Association (NDWA) • The Souter Charitable Trust • Saathi • Travelopia • Sankalpa - Women’s Alliance for Peace, Justice, and Democracy • Weil, Gotshall and Manges (London) LLP • Tewa • Voices of Women Media (VOW Media) Our founder • Women for Human Rights Nepal (WHR) • Sir Alec Reed

UGANDA Trustees • Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) • Annie Kelly • Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) • Fenella Porter • Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) • Jennifer Margaret Jones • Mentoring & Empowerment for Young Women (MEMPROW) • Juanita Rosenior • National Association for Women’s Action in Development (NAWAD) • Laura Hucks • National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) • Lia Larson • National Association of Women’s Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU) • Lubna Qunash • National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU) • Maggie Baxter CBE • Women’s International Peace Centre (WIPC) • Noelia Serrano ZIMBABWE • Rebecca Wood • Deaf Women Included • Roshana Arasaratnam • Female Prisoners Support Trust (Femprist) • Siobhan Allen • Musasa • Sophie Efange • Pakasipiti • Susana Leith Smith • Women and Land in Zimbabwe (WLZ) • Women in Politics Support Unit (WiPSU) Gala committee • Women’s Action Group (WAG) • Denise Gibson • Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) • Emma Barrier • Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) • Federica Gironi • Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) • Lia Larson

• Lubna Qunash PAN-AFRICA/REGIONAL • Maria Andrisani • African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) • Susana Leith-Smith Image on the right: Jane Anyango, • Yasmine Bassili PHOTO CREDIT: SARAH WAISA • Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement Director of Polycom Development Project. FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. of Women (EASSI) • Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)

28. 29. Image below: Firehiwot, Zelalem, Tigist and Kedja who are part of the EWDNA group.

PHOTO CREDIT: MAHEDER HAILESELASSIE TADESE FOR WOMANKIND WORLDWIDE. 32.