Equality Fund

Tewa means 'support' in Nepali and is the only women's fund in Nepal. Tewa's vision is to establish a truly sustainable development model in overly aid dependent Nepal. The Fund engages in community philanthropy, capacity development, movement building, networking, and collaborations with allied organizations for self-reliance and creating an equitable society. Combining locally raised funds with international funding, Tewa provides grants to marginalized women-led organizations and groups to organize community-level initiatives. Tewa supports issues such as sexual and reproductive health rights, legal rights, socio-economic empowerment, violence against women, rights of marginalized women and women with disabilities, political rights, and environmental rights, organizational development and sustainability, and feminist humanitarian support.

The Story Kitchen (TSK) is a non-profit distributing company registered in September 2012 under Company Act 2006 of Nepal. TSK essentially works with women across the country to empower them to share their stories. It aims to amplify their voices by innovative storytelling through new and old media tools. It provides a platform to the grassroots women across nation to make them vocal about their issues and experiences to seek social justice and to empower them.TSK firmly believes that voices of women can play crucial role in promoting gender equality and fighting violence against women. Mainstreaming their voices into national debates and policy making is the aim of TSK, which believes that media can influence existing knowledge, perception and opinions of policy and decision makers by making them more attentive to the women’s issues and the practices in which those issues have been framed. Through narrative storytelling, TSK hopes to build capacities of women and make the State, decision and policy makers accountable and responsive towards the issues of women at ground, especially those of the conflict survivors.

Hamro Palo's mission is to empower adolescent girls, women and boys and equip them with the skills, and knowledge to create their own safe and healthy futures. The organization delivers culture sensitive services that advance adolescents health, safety, and confidence and leadership skills. This grant will support Hamro Palo's gender transformative workshops and support for adolescent girls, young women and boys to allow them to create their own safe and healthy futures. The Equality Fund grant will support Hamro Palo's core operational costs as well as advancing the following priorities: -Expand the flagship Her Turn program to reach more girls in rural villages, responding to requests to deliver workshops in more schools. -Partner with schools to expand girls-in-sports initiatives which showed great success in terms of girls interest and confidence they have built up during the pilot activity last year. -Support activities to create safe spaces and platforms advancing girls and women's rights as well as core operations costs, such as travel, administrative support, audit and monitoring and evaluation costs

NIDWAN's mission is to promote a decent standard of living for all indigenous women, women with disabilities and young indigenous women with disabilities and to advance social, economic, political and cultural rights to create a more just society. The Equality Fund grant will support NIDWAN's core operational costs including salaries and the following activities: -Administrative/transportation expenses to support and increase the capacity of the organization in key programmatic and operational areas. -Training of indigenous women with disabilities about their rights: training on human rights provisions, CEDAW, Convention on the rights of people with disabilities. -Data collection for proposal writing and for advocacy and campaigns.