The First Response Fund is a global pooled fund designed by and for women and girls in all their diversity. It delivers responsive, rapid funding through national, regional and multi-regional women’s and feminist funds to support locally led organizations and groups on the frontlines of crises.
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ABOUT FIRST RESPONSE FUND
ABOUT FIRST RESPONSE FUND
Mission
Mission
First Response Fund is a humanitarian pooled fund rooted in community-based responses, humanitarian and feminist values, local leadership, and self-determination. It resources local, diverse women and girl-led responses to disasters, conflict, and climate shocks.
Core Principles
Core Principles
First Response Fund is an innovative advance on localization that provides agile, responsive resources to local diverse women and girl-led organizations for life-saving, humanitarian services prioritized by their communities. The principles that guide our work:
Local leadership
Intersectional and context-specific approaches
Neutral, impartial humanitarian action
Conflict sensitivity & safety
Protection, gender-based violence prevention and response
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