Outreach Trips
Reaching out to our advisors and grantees around the world through site visits and regional conferences is a key component of the Global Fund’s grantmaking. By visiting local women’s rights activists, we experience the work of women’s groups first-hand, share strategies and expertise face-to-face and build trust and respect.
Last month, the Americas program team traveled to Haiti for grantee perspective on ways to strengthen the women's rights movement in Haiti. View the slideshow below, and listen to important excerpts from their report back.
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June 2010
Muadi Mukenge, GFW Program Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, traveled to Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa for 19 days in June and will share an update on her learnings from women's rights groups as the two countries rebuild after over a decade of war. The itinerary included grantee convenings and in-depth conversations with a range of grantees, program beneficiaries, government officials, and potential grantees, as well as visits to rural communities.
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 September 2008
Muadi Mukenge, Global Fund's Regional Director of the Africa region, went on an outreach trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Read her account of the trip, where she shares her chilling insights on the ongoing crises in these two countries.
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 January 2008
Dechen Tsering, Global Fund’s Program Officer for Asia and Oceania visited grantees in Indonesia. One of the trip’s objectives was also to assess the Aceh Women’s Trust Fund, a Global Fund grantee established in response to the devastation experienced by local women in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami and additionally facing military strife.
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 January 2008
Erika Guevara Rosas, Global Fund Program Officer for the Americas, spent two weeks with Global Fund grantees in Colombia and Ecuador.
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 Spring 2006
Global Fund advisors and staff held a three-day forum in the Caucasus, a region deeply affected by conflict and economic transition. In Tbilisi, Georgia, women from Armenia and Georgia developed a regional strategy for women’s rights for the first time.
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 October 2005
Two groups of Global Fund donors traveled to Southeast Asia to experience first hand the growth of women's rights in a region devastated by the Vietnam War, and its subsequent catastrophic political and economic ramifications.
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 Spring 2005
As part of the Global Fund’s Middle East and North Africa Initiative, an international delegation of 28 Global Fund board members, staff, and supporters traveled to nine countries in the region, meeting with nearly 200 women’s groups to learn about the most pressing issues facing the region's women.
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