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Rawsa Alliance

About RAWSA Alliance

RAWSA (Regional Advocacy for Women’s Sustainable Advancement) Alliance was established in 2019 in Tunisia. In 2021, the headquarters were moved to Egypt. It’s the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -based, women-led, and feminist organization that has more than 150 members including feminists, human rights experts, healthcare, media, and legal professionals. 

Mission

Empower women and marginalized communities and ensure their bodily autonomy by regional advocacy for human rights, gender equality, and climate justice to transform practices, policies, and laws related to above-indicated issues and groups.

Vision

Support, educate, and empower women and marginalized communities to reach their potential and effectively participate across all spheres of society by knowing their rights and responsibilities and being able to make their own decisions. It also, stresses the urgency of climate action to promote women's and marginalized communities’ rights.

Mediterranean Women's Fund

About Mediterranean Women's Fund

MedWF (Mediterranean Women’s Fund) was launched in 2008 by prioritizing to fund initiatives of associations defending women’s rights. MedWF supports the activities of women working to change the Mediterranean region by funding women’s associations to provide them with the material and human resources .

Mission

Since its creation, the Mediterranean Women's Fund has been committed to strengthening the women's movement in all the countries of the Mediterranean basin. Its purpose is to contribute concretely and ambitiously to improving the status of women.

Vision

For Mediterranean women's organizations to have the concrete means to act, unite, and make themselves heard, the Mediterranean Women's Fund pulls together the necessary resources and tailors its support to the specific needs of each group. By amplifying their voices and their movement, it allows these associations to become a force of change for the emancipation of women.

Statement for the Network

Feminist Climate Justice Mena Network

MENA region is one of the most vulnerable regions against the negative impacts of the climate crisis.The already existing vulnerability of women and girls in the region keeps increasing with those impacts. Especially, in rural and less-developed areas, they cannot access their basic rights: clean water, food, education, sanitary and hygiene products for their menstrual cycle, health services, sexual and reproductive health, and rights. 

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