Pledges Girls Want Funders to Take

In 2018, the With and For Girls Collective brought together 12 girl activists from Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, U.S.A, Poland, Kenya, Nepal, Barbados, Guatemala, Israel, Romania and Nicaragua, to put on the closing plenary at the Human Rights Funders Conference, to an audience of over 700 of the worlds largest and most prominent funders. These pledges serve as recommendations to funders globally on how they can ensure their funding makes a difference. They went on to be included in the U.N Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. You can watch this short film to find out more.

I pledge:

To fund capacity building, networking and mentoring opportunities for girl-led organisations.

To fund informal, non-established groups.

To make grant processes more accessible.

To increase core and long-term funding to girl-led and girl-centred groups.

To include girls in strategic decision making.

To acknowledge the intersectionality of girls’ issues.

To enforce protocols so girls are given platforms to speak candidly about issues, beyond the confines of organisational alignment.

To not see girls as trends or gimmicks, but as real change makers.

To collaborate with girls at the board level.

To actively seek out diverse, marginalised and hard-to-reach groups.