For 2010, we’ve got a number of activities lined up, and we’ll need your help in all of them. Join us to stay informed and get involved!

Support for Young Feminists

Many young women activists from all over the world face similar challenges. Key challenges include:

• Isolation from established women’s rights organizing;
• Lack of funding for young women-led projects or organizations;
• Little access to information resources;
• Few opportunities to access the experiences of others;
• Limited access to agenda-setting and decision-making spaces.

Our response to these challenges vary by region, context, and issue. Here’s some of the things we’re working on this year:

1. Resource Mobilization for Young Women’s Rights Activism: a new women’s funding initiative focused on supporting activism led by young feminists around the globe.
2. Young Arab Feminist Network: Institutional support to young feminists in the Middle East and North Africa to set up a network of support and alliance-building.
3. The Young Feminist Wire: This portal! an online information and networking space for young women across the globe.

Promoting Multigenerational Models

In addition to supporting young feminists directly, we’re also working with women’s rights activists of all ages on practical models and strategies for multigenerational organizing

To do this, we’re working closely with AWID’s other programs to ensure that young women’s participation, perspectives and issues are central to all of our work. We’re producing tools for multigenerational organizing and inter-generational relationships that can be applied by women’s rights activists working in a variety of contexts and issues. Activities promoting multi-generational models for 2010 are:

1. Building Multigenerational Women’s Movements: Experiences and Examples: a practical resource to assist organizations to incorporate multigenerational ways of working into their activities and strategies.
2. Multigenerational Strategies to Challenge and Resist Religious Fundamentalisms: working with the Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms initiative, we are working on a report that documents the ways in which religious fundamentalisms target youth and young women, and makes the argument that building alliances across generations strengthens women’s rights strategies in this area.
3. Young Women’s Dialogue on Resource Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: with the Where is the Money? initiative, we will hold a Young Women’s Dialogue at their regional meeting in Central and Eastern Europe.
4. Young Women and Girls in Development: with the Influencing Development Actors initiative, we are working on a research and discussion paper on aid and development strategies focused on young women and girls.