Funding (in)equality? A comparative look at the funding landscape for pro-and anti-gender initiatives and campaigns in the European Union (EU)

Funding (in)equality? A comparative look at the funding landscape for pro-and anti-gender initiatives and campaigns in the European Union (EU)

Anti-gender campaigns and actors are much better funded than human rights and equality advocates. At the same time, key state services and civil society organisations are being actively defunded or structurally excluded from funding opportunities – EU funding, in particular, is practically inaccessible to grassroots feminist and LGBTQI* organising. In a global context of shrinking space for civil society, the result is an extremely uneven terrain for actors campaigning for and against the rights of politically marginalised populations. This briefing provides an overview of the funding landscapes for pro- and anti-gender organising and provides recommendations on how EU policymakers and other donors can better support human rights and intersectional equality activism and campaigning.

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