AWID 2018-2022 - AWID 2018-2021 (Jämställdhetsstrategi) AWID 2018-2022 AWID, Association for Women's Rights in Development, har ansökt om fortsatt kärnstöd för perioden 2018-2022 i enlighet med dess strategiska plan för 2018-2022.

Sida har gett stöd till AWID sedan 2007. AWID är en internationell feministisk medlemsbaserad organisation som har som mål att skapa  en stark kvinnorättsrörelse som är utrustad för att arbeta effektivt och inkluderande med kvinnors rättigheter. AWID's medlemmar arbetar i ett globalt nätverk som genom påverkansarbete, kapacitetsuppbyggnad samt forskning och kommunikation arbetar för kvinnors rättigheter.

Enligt rapportering och de utvärderingar som har gjorts (Merit Partnership 2017-02-06 och KPMG 2017-11-16) framgår det att AWID är en väl fungerande organisation som lyckats väl med att påverka givare och andra aktörer som bl.a. resulterat i att kvinnoorganisationer och kvinnorörelser är bättre resurssatta nu än tidigare för sin uppgift att leda och samordna arbetet med att främja kvinnors rättigheter på olika nivåer. 

Jämställdhet är en av Sveriges strategiska prioriteringar och Sida bedömer att AWID's strategiska plan för den nya femårsperioden stämmer väl överens med målen i strategin för Sveriges utvecklingssamarbete avseende mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati och rättsstatens principer (2018-2022) samt med målen i strategin för Sveriges utvecklingssamarbete för global jämställdhet och kvinnors och flickors rättigheter 2018–2022. AWID is an international feminist member-based organization that aims to create a strong women's rights movement that is equipped to work effectively and inclusive with women's rights. AWID's members work in a global network that, through impact work, capacity building and research and communication work for women's rights. Sida has provided support to AWID since 2007.

According to AWID's strategic plan for 2018-2022, the organization aims to create a strong women's rights movement, fully equipped to work effectively and inclusively for women's rights. The strategic plan consists of four performance areas that will govern the business over the next five-year period, which are: 1. supporting feminist movements to develop; 2. to curb the forces that oppose universal rights; 3. To create, with other actors, feminist environments, and; 4. To continue to strengthen AWID as an organization to fully equip itself to work effectively and inclusive for women's rights.

Gender equality is one of Sweden's strategic priorities, and Sida believes that AWID's strategic plan for the new five-year period is in line with the objectives of both the Strategy for Sweden's Development Cooperation on Human Rights, Democracy and the Principles of the Rule of Law (2018-2022) and also the objectives of the strategy for Sweden's development cooperation for global equality and women's and girls' rights 2018-2022. The new plan is the result of a yearlong participatory process that included internal reflection and analysis as well as extensive input from partners, members, and feminist movements. The plan presents AWIDs core outcomes and impacts for 2018-2022.

Outcomes and objectives are found in the Strategic Plan under the heading "What we aim to achieve". There are three principal strategies (or objectives 1-3) at the centre of AWID's vision to work for the period 2018-2022. These are: 1. Supporting feminist movements to thrive; 2. challenging anti-rights agendas; and; 3. co-creating feminist realities and narratives. Three overarching outcomes follow.

Outcome 1. "Feminist women's rights and gender justice movements are thriving, with stronger collective power to challenge patriarchy and advance feminist agendas. Three objectives are attached:
1. Strengthened connectivity and collaboration across and within feminist women's rights and gender justice moments.
2. Feminist women's rights and gender justice movements have more and better access to diverse resources for their work, and:
3. Feminist women's rights and gender justice activities and movements are better equipped and networked to maintain and enhance their holistic protection, security,safety and well-being. These objectives are also reflected in the Result Framework (RF).

Outcome 2. "Feminist, women's rights and gender justice movements are better able to challenge, disrupt and delegitimize the consensus and influence of actors promoting patriarchy in connection with corporate power, fascism and fundamentalism within international spaces and systems.  Three objectives are attached:
Objective 1: Increased understanding among feminist, womens rights and gender justice movements of the ways in which different actors uphold patriarchy in connection with corporate  power, fascism and fundamentalism
Objective 2: Increased understanding among, and sharing between, feminist, womens rights and gender justice movements of strategies to effectively challenge, disrupt,delegitimize and dismantle the systems, actors and institutions upholding patriarchy in connection with corporate power, fascism and fundamentalism.

Objective 3: Feminist, women's rights and gender justice movements develop and deploy joint strategies to challenge, disrupt, delegitimize and dismantle the consensus and influence of actors promoting patriarchy in connection with corporate power, fascism and fundamentalism
Outcome 3. Feminist realities, proposals and narratives flourish, are amplified and become increasingly influential.Three objectives are attached:
Objective 1: Knowledge that puts forward feminist realities and narratives is co-created,shared and built among feminist, women's rights and gender justice movements.
Objective 2: Increased visibility of feminist realities, proposals and norms in intergovernmental spaces and as well as within and across feminist and other movements, and in society as a whole.
Objective 3: Re imagined existing and new joint agendas that reflect feminist realities, proposals, and narratives are collectively and successfully advocated for by feminist movements and allies.
AWID's programmatic work is organised into initiatives to achieve their goals. One of the important initiatives relates to the International Forum. Held every four years (the most recent held in 2016 in Brazil), the Forum draws up to 2,000 feminists from around the world. This initiative contributes to making visible feminism in practice, inspiring exchange and joint action and the process is co-created with members and partners. Some other examples of activities include the development and dissemination of knowledge and communication products, sharing feminist knowledge, practices and agendas.

The plan also puts an emphasis on maintaining and building organisational sustainability and resilience as well as sharing lessons and experiences with other organisations. Their work in this area includes, for example financial management, IT, human resources and organisational development, monitoring and evaluation; financial sustainability and governance
In our previous support to AWID, AWID has managed to support feminist movements to thrive. It is believed that the objectives set forth in the current plan will continue toward achieving this goal, by challenging anti-rights agendas, and co-create feminist realities and narratives as explained in the Strategic Plan under the heading "what we aim to achieve". Furthermore they underline their commitment to continuing to build a bold and resilient feminist organization that can deliver on their ambitions to serve as a resource for others. 

In summary,  what is expected to be achieved by the end of this support is to strengthen the power of feminist movements, as a critical force in challenging the causes of the problems.