[Dpo-officemanagers] FW: Why We Need Specific Funding for the Rights of Women with Disabilities

[savina nongebatu]

Absolutely true!!! This is much needed!

On Oct 15, 2017 6:46 PM, "Simione Bula" <infor at pacificdisability.org> wrote:

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> *Why We Need Specific Funding for the Rights of Women with Disabilities*
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> “We have to really challenge ourselves as donors and as actors in the
> field to set targets and prioritize work advancing the rights of women with
> disabilities.” – Catherine Hyde Townsend
>
> [image: Misti Ashrafun, Women with Disabilities Development Foundation,
> speaks out]
>
> Misti Ashrafun, Women with Disabilities Development Foundation Bangladesh
> speaks out at AWID Conference
>
> July 24, 2017 - In the years following the adoption of the UN Convention
> on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), international disability
> rights advocacy was mostly focused on getting on the human rights agenda.
> It was about getting into the room, becoming visible in places where
> persons with disabilities had been invisible, and participating in policy
> development. These were important targets and there was an important focus
> on uniting people with disabilities across impairments, but less attention
> was paid to the multiple identities people with disabilities hold.
>
> Today, with the Sustainable Development Goals, *leaving no one behind* is
> not only a reference to marginalized communities such as persons with
> disabilities, but the need for the disability rights *community* to
> better include marginalized persons with disabilities.
>
> Women with disabilities are a stark example of the marginalization some
> sub-groups face within the disability community itself. It’s exciting to
> hear how many governments are talking about the need for inclusion of women
> with disabilities. And we also need to keep challenging ourselves.
>
> ·         How much of the funding reflects this commitment?
>
> ·         How are we sharing this work and listening to women with
> disabilities?
>
> ·         How are we strengthening the movement to include women with
> disabilities in leadership?
>
> ·         How are women’s rights donors contributing to this work?
>
> To address this need, several donors created a resource about grantmaking
> at this intersection, which documents case studies and shares research
> about funding levels. Through donor interviews and data from the
> International Human Rights Funders Group and the Foundation Center, the
> research documents the marginalization of women with disabilities in
> funding. It’s stark. Only $2 of every $100 in addresses or includes women
> with disabilities. Money reflects our priorities. We therefore need to
> align our donor investments with our stated priorities.
>
> As a long-term funder of disability rights, I wanted to share three
> fundamentals I’ve learned in funding this work: 1) the need for a twin
> track approach; 2) the importance of intentionality and targets, and 3) the
> value of listening to women with disabilities.
>
>    1. Need for a twin track approach
>
> We all know this work is not achievable through the meager funding for
> disabled persons’ organizations. It’s also not possible simply through
> mainstreaming*. *While disability donors are fewer in number and dollars,
> they need to consider how their work reflects a gender lens. And women’s
> rights donors need to include women with disabilities.
>
> I want to give a concrete example of what this looks like in the field.
> The largest feminist conference in the world, the AWID Conference in Brazil
> last year, presented an amazing opportunity for women with disabilities.
> AWID’s board chair, Myrna Cunningham, took the main stage and called for
> stronger inclusion of women with disabilities. It’s not a coincidence that
> Myrna had served a “bridge builder” in the early years of the Disability
> Rights Fund. At AWID, activists were demanding donors pay more attention
> and waving the flag. Women with disabilities were saying, “We are here. How
> are you including us?” The Women’s Refugee Commission, CREA and others
> implored donors and women’s rights coalitions and campaigns to better
> include women with disabilities.
>
> This is not about “allowing” women with disabilities to participate. This
> is about how women fight patriarchy more effectively. This is about how
> women’s rights campaigns can be successful. They need women with
> disabilities.
>
>    1. Importance of Intentionality and Targets
>
> It’s important to say that AWID didn’t just happen. *There was
> intentional funding for women with disabilities to be there, raise their
> voices and be heard. *
>
> Yet inclusion of women with disabilities won’t just happen as funding
> increases to the disability rights field. We talk about leaving no one
> behind, but often when we make decisions as donors and create grantmaking
> processes, they don’t include women with disabilities. We don’t always
> promote women with disabilities as leaders of the organizations that we’re
> funding. In the course of my own work, I had a principle of including women
> with disabilities, but it was not formalized in a strategy. We must really
> challenge ourselves as donors and as actors in the field to set targets and
> prioritize work advancing the rights of women with disabilities, which is
> often different than the work led by mainstream disability rights
> communities. We also need to create indicators holding ourselves
> accountable to funding women with disabilities. What matters gets counted.
>
> 3.      The value of listening to women with disabilities
>
> Lastly, I want to talk about *learning and experimentation*. Women with
> disabilities have been working on the ground for decades. They know what
> they need. They know effective strategies. They haven’t had access to
> resources, money, or leadership opportunities and opportunities to develop
> their organizations and partner with women’s rights organizations. Informed
> by theses voices, we’ve created a brief for donors
> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://disabilityrightsfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Supporting_inclusive_movements_web.pdf&c=E,1,0SqGkOrfyc28KMpRm9L5qHsgsoHA-FiLMpR85X2EV_MLyz4wf8xh2-WB-iKSCEo9Pyr3vwijetpNL5hMR05_JLof2cMuXBqqg_i2ALtLCtPaVAakMRQlwU4g&typo=1>
> who want to begin supporting the rights of women with disabilities.
>
> *Funding this work requires taking some risks, fostering learning on the
> ground, but most importantly listening to women with disabilities
> themselves about what they need and how they want to grow the movement.
> They have the most accurate assessments about what solutions can work. And
> they’re informed about the advocacy strategies that can really move this
> work forward.*
>
> Adapted from a presentation made by Catherine Hyde Townsend, Sr. Program
> Officer, Wellspring Advisors and DRF / DRAF Board Co-Chair at the 10th
> session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, “Supporting
> Inclusive Movements: Funding the Rights of Women with Disabilities,” June
> 14, 2017
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