Invest to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: Exploring Funding for Women and Girls with Disabilities

Humanitarian crises, climate change and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) have been demonstrated to have an uniquely adverse impact on women and girls with disabilities. While support comes in many forms, it’s clear that in most areas needs are not being met.

One particular area that is rarely discussed is funding. While people are speaking more about GBV than before, the money has not always followed that talk. GBV, Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs) and feminist movements struggle to find sustainable funding in general, as highlighted in the Feminist Handbook on Grantmaking. These challenges are amplified for organizations operating and located at the intersections of multiple systems of oppression. The Black Feminist Fund describes the multitude of ways in which black feminist organizations and movements are underfunded. This seems to be particularly true in the area of GBV against women with disabilities. The Black Feminist Fund highlighted that .09% of funding goes to black women, girls and trans people with disabilities.

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