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1. Donors contribute funds to First Response Fund
First Response Fund receives funding from humanitarian donors, including governments and philanthropic organizations. By pooling funding, First Response Fund expands each donors’ reach and impact, while also building a community of allied donors committed to better resourcing diverse women and girl-led organizations.
Donors can contribute resources to:
Global Response Window: Resources for sudden-onset crises or the aggravation of existing crises selected by the First Response Fund Advisory Group.
Region or Country-Specific Window: Earmarked resources for crisis response in donor designated geographies that align with First Response Fund priorities.
2. First Response Fund partners with Women’s and Feminist Funds
Grants are quickly made to trusted and pre-vetted multi-regional, regional, and national women’s & feminist funds.
First Response Fund works with a network of over 50 Women’s and Feminist Funds operating nationally, regionally, and multi-regionally. Women’s and feminist funds have longstanding partnerships with local networks of diverse women and girl-led organizations, which First Response Fund leverages for timely and strategic crisis response.
Women’s and feminist funds are public fundraising foundations that, in addition to humanitarian response, work to realize the power of grassroots movements let by diverse women and girls around the world by providing them with sustained financial and other resources to realize their visions of social justice. Every year, women’s and feminist funds collectively resource over 9000 organizations, groups, collectives and individuals working locally in diverse settings across the globe.
3. Women’s and Feminist Funds flow urgently needed resources to diverse, local women and girl-led organizations for:
Emergency response
Recovery & resilience
Preparedness & early action
Women’s and Feminist Funds resource diverse community-led organizations and groups. These groups are led by members of the constituencies they support, including:
Women and girls in all their diversity and communities in high need, at risk of exclusion, and/ or in hard-to-reach or remote areas;
Those with most acute needs and vulnerabilities such as refugees, women with disabilities, internally displaced populations, Indigenous and Black women and/or other ethnic, religious, cultural and social minorities, and those at the intersection of these identities;
Groups exposed to violence, discrimination, exploitation and abuse such as those at risk of or survivors of human trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, or other violence or abuse.
4. Women and girl-led organizations provide life-saving, humanitarian services prioritized by their communities.
Local organizations provide humanitarian support including multi-purpose cash assistance and needs-based, sectoral support such as food, water and sanitation, hygiene products, and gender-based violence prevention and response.
Women and girl-led organizations prioritize gender-specific response activities, including:
Dignity kits
Sexual and reproductive health services
Gender-based violence prevention and response
Protection activities for affected people;
Safe spaces for women and girls
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