Report Back From The DRC And Uganda: Uninspired Leadership and Undignified Citizenship (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. Since this report, conflicts in easetrn Congo have accelerated in the last week.

Indonesia (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.

Global Fund Learns First Hand about the Women's Movement
in Columbia and Ecuador (January 2008)

Erika Guevara Rosas, Global Fund Program Officer for the Americas, spent two weeks with Global Fund grantees in Colombia and Ecuador.

Women in Transition: Outreach to the Caucasus  (June 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.

Legacy of Conflict: Women’s Rights in Vietnam and Cambodia  (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.

Snapshots of the Middle East and North Africa (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.