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We can help you use your funds wisely to end violence against women and girls within our lifetime.
Violence against women and girls occurs in every country — devastating lives, weakening communities and undermining the security and prosperity of nations.
When you support us, you’re funding a leader in preventing violence against women and girls, with a proven track record of impact. At the Global Women’s Institute, we’re working to end violence against women and girls through research and partnerships that share power and shape policy.
- We created a first-of-its-kind model for rigorous and ethically safe research in conflict settings.
- We’re leading the world’s largest global research consortium to study and scale up effective measures to prevent gender-based violence.
- We developed the first program to professionalize and standardize the gender and development field.
We know that violence can be prevented and that this can happen within our lifetime with proper investment and programming.
That’s why we develop cutting-edge research to build the global evidence base on violence against women and girls and to strengthen interventions, policies and investments designed to end violence against women and girls. And it works.
'We’ve contributed to Nicaragua’s first domestic violence law, South Sudan’s peace negotiations and Australia's tenfold increase in its investment to end gender-based violence.'
By funding the Global Women’s Institute, you’re not only contributing to the global evidence base but you’re also helping to create supportive policies and institutions so that together, we can end violence against women and girls for good.
Why Should I Fund Research on Violence Against Women and Girls Even If That’s Not the Focus of Our Grantee Portfolio?
Even if your grantee portfolio isn’t directly focused on ending violence against women and girls, you may be surprised at how much women and girls’ daily experiences of violence impact their ability to engage with the services you’re providing.
For example, if the women and girls you’re working with need to access water from a well in a remote area or don’t have proper community lighting, they may be at higher risk of experiencing violence. That risk can affect not only their own lives but also their families and communities — and their ability to show up and participate in your programming.
We can support you to convene spaces for women and girls to talk freely so that they can share experiences about the community they're living in, including sensitive experiences of violence or discrimination. We’re equipped to do this work with care and nuance, in local partnership, so that you can get the information you need to inform and improve your programming and ultimately make public services, program offerings and communities safer.
But Isn’t the Global Women’s Institute Based in Washington, D.C.? How Do You Work in Partnership Across Different Countries?
We always partner with frontline organizations and local communities to develop our strategies and implement the work so what we produce is rigorous, evidence-based and reflective of firsthand experiences.
We see ourselves as capacity-sharers. We don't want to take resources that could be better spent in-country, and we wouldn't influence you to do that. What we specialize in is adding value to the relationships you already have, strengthening your local partners’ research capacity so they can take on more and more leadership in the areas you’re interested in.
In the event you don’t already have local partners, we have long-term partnerships with more than 50 local and international women’s rights, humanitarian and development organizations in more than 30 countries. By working together, we can introduce you to these partners, see if they’re already networked with the work you're doing and/or build new networks in your setting.
What About the Cost?
One key concern that prospective partners have is cost — they hear that universities have high indirect costs, and they are conscious of actual (or perceived) waste, fraud and abuse.
If your organization puts a limit on your indirect costs, we'll respect that. We’re highly competitive in this area, as opposed to nonprofits that aren’t legally able to change their indirect cost rates to NICRA (a negotiated indirect cost rate agreement).
Since most of our funding comes through university tuition, we’re able to be much more flexible, and this has allowed us to take in funding with lower, indirect costs. We only charge salaries and direct costs — for example, we don’t need to charge for facilities.
Another way that funding the Global Women’s Institute is a cost-effective investment is that we have a huge body of courses and materials that we’ve developed since 2012 that we can adapt to your setting. When we work together, we’ll be building upon global evidence and adapting our work to your context. We’re never starting from scratch.