The Foundation’s partner organizations are generally managed by women and located in the global South.
The Foundation and its partner organizations keep regular contact; their cooperation is based on mutual trust and transparency.
Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
fokus frauen supports three projects run by local partner organisations in Afghanistan. For security reasons, these projects and the partner organisations are not listed in detail here.
Peru
Las Comunes
Project: Counteracting violence through music
Country: Peru
Project duration: 07/25–07/27, project partner since 2024
Partnerorganisationen: Las Comunes, Peru
Women and young people stand up against violence affecting women and children by composing songs and rap music and writing lyrics. Their musical appeals are distributed via social media and aim at breaking up the patriarchal narrative. Las Comunes was founded in 2024 and is breaking new ground in violence prevention with this pilot project.
Kenia
CDGN
Project: Strengthening through networking
Country: Kenia
Project duration: 05/24–04/25
Partnerorganisationen: CDGN, Kenia
The Community Development Groups Network CDGN ensures networking and empowering of small self-aid groups and civil-based organizations by offering further training courses in finance planning, reporting, and fund raising. In addition, it carries out joint advocacy activities on the topic of human and women’s rights.
Kenia
Namirama
Project: Human rights and sustainable development
Country: Kenia
Project duration: 07/25–07/27, project partner since 2024
Partnerorganisationen: Namirama, Kenya
Namirama works closely together with local populations and regional authorities in remote rural areas. In addition to offering courses on sustainable farming and livestock farming to strengthen women economically, Namirama also organizes workshops on women’s and human rights.
Brasilien
Instituto Cordilheira
Project: Women fighting for their land
Country: Brasilien
Project duration: 10/23–09/26
Partnerorganisationen: Instituto Cordilheira, Brazil
Extensive mining is threatening the existence of many rural communities in Minas Gerais. The project supports women who are dedicated to human rights and an intact environment. They learn how to deal with the competent authorities and receive assistance in establishing their economic independence in the field of medicinal herbs and aroma therapy.
Bosnien und Herzegowina
Amica Educa
Project: Initiating change
Country: Bosnien und Herzegowina
Project duration: 08/23–07/26
Partnerorganisationen: Amica Educa, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Socially disadvantaged young women with little school education have no opportunities on the labour market and are at risk of slipping into poverty. In this program led by Amica Educa, 50 young women aged between 15 and 35 years receive the training they need to become fit for the labour market.
Kolumbien
CENTRAP and Casa Ernestina Parra
Project: Safety and perspective
Country: Kolumbien
Project duration: 07/23–07/25, project partner since 2021
Partnerorganisationen: CENTRAP and Casa Ernestina Parra, Soacha, Colombia
The women’s collective Casa Ernestina Parra offers women affected by violence a place of refuge and provides them with access to legal and psychosocial support, as well as educational opportunities. Additionally, this small but efficient group carries out awareness-raising work on gender-specific violence in its community and takes the authorities to task.
Brasilien
Casa de Maria
Project: Palm nuts as an opportunity
Country: Brasilien
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2023
Partnerorganisationen: Casa de Maria, Brazil
Supported by the Casa de Maria cooperative, palm nut pickers, most of whom are single mothers currently living on social welfare, want to develop their home-made licuri and babassu nut oil, as well as other products, for market readiness. Their goal is to improve their economic and social situation. The project also plans to build a support network with women’s cooperatives.
Bolivien
Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA)
Project: Strengthening women affected by violence
Country: Bolivien
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partnerorganisationen: Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA), Bolivia
The Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA) advocates for democracy, justice and equality and wants to counter the ever-present gender-specific violence against women in La Paz. It provides training to 20 women who can become community therapists. They will be able to assist and help women affected by violence in therapy groups. Women are taught their rights and enabled to free themselves from the abusive situation they are in.
Bolivien
Asociación Kay Pacha
Project: Arts and crafts for survival
Country: Bolivien
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partnerorganisationen: Asociación Kay Pacha, Bolivia
The women on Lake Poopó were already organized in arts and crafts associations in the past. The Kay Pacha project helps approximately 200 women to improve their products’ quality and to gain market access more easily. A mutual network is being created to strengthen every single women’s organization. Moreover, they are taught their rights as women and as indigenous peoples in workshops.
Bolivien
Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural)
Project: Medicines from the forest
Country: Bolivien
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partnerorganisationen: Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural), Bolivia
Deforestation, mining, and extensive agriculture are a threat to the livelihood of the indigenous Tacana people. Particularly women having a broad knowledge of traditional herbal medicine – that is very widespread in Bolivia – are able to counter this threat. The C-Plural foundation helps the female botanic experts to improve production processes and marketing of their products.
Bolivien
RENACE (Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica)
Project: Strengthening small women entrepreneurs
Country: Bolivien
Project duration: 10/25–09/28, project partner since 2022
Partnerorganisationen: RENACE (Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica), Bolivia
Since 2004, RENACE has been promoting ecological agriculture among indigenous communities in the Alto Beni region. The project supported by focus women offers training and further education in business management to small women entrepreneurs and producers with the aim to improve the marketing of their local products.
Uganda
Women Coalition for Empowerment Eastern Africa (WCEEA)
Project: Empowerment of women refugees from South Sudan
Country: Uganda
Project duration: 11/24–10/26, project partner since 2022
Partnerorganisationen: Women Coalition for Empowerment Eastern Africa (WCEEA), Uganda
Since 2015, WCEEA has been working for the empowerment of women, for their economic and political participation, and for the elimination of all forms of discrimination. In its ongoing project, refugee women from South Sudan are receiving training in business management, agribusiness, and education on human and women’s rights.
Bolivien
Colectivo CASA
Project: Organic farming instead of mining
Country: Bolivien
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2022
Partnerorganisationen: Colectivo CASA, Bolivia
After the first project in which the women successfully fought for their right to clean water, the current project focuses on securing their livelihood in the long term. In the mining regions, they are looking for ecological alternatives to mining, receive training in organic farming and are establishing community and school gardens based on their newly acquired knowledge.
Kenia
Wakina Mama Shupavu
Project: Self-aid to provide for old age
Country: Kenia
Project duration: 07/25–06/26, project partner since 2022
Partnerorganisationen: Wakina Mama Shupavu, Kenya
Wakina Mama Shupavu – “strong, hard-working mothers” – is a cooperative that started 2022 with a small pig breeding project two years ago. Today three groups are already involved. The first group has additionally set up a traveler’s café that helps to increase the women’s income. In 2024, the women also attended training courses and now have a license to produce sausages. Wakina Mama Shupavu is well under way to become independent.
Israel
Kayan Feminist Organization
Project: Rights for Palestinian women
Country: Israel
Project duration: 01/25–12/27, project partner since 2022
Partnerorganisationen: Kayan Feminist Organization, Israel
Kayan was founded in 1998 by Arab feminists and has been campaigning for the needs and rights of Arab women in Israel and the Occupied Territories ever since. Cooperating with other women’s organizations in the region, Kayan’s local offices are developing action plans that are tailored to the respective regional needs.
Uganda
Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT)
Project: Knowing one’s rights
Country: Uganda
Project duration: 10/24–10/26, project partner since 2021
Partnerorganisationen: Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT), Uganda
KWDT has 25 years of experience working with marginalized women in fishing communities around Lake Victoria. In 2021, KWDT started a training program on human and women’s rights with 30 women’s groups. In a second step, the women, with the support of Katosi, shared their newly acquired knowledge with their community in so-called “Community Talks”. The project was continued and extended to include 40 women’s groups in 2025.
Nepal
Nagarik Aawaz
Project: To live with dignity
Country: Nepal
Project duration: 05/24–04/26, project partner since 2021
Partnerorganisationen: Nagarik Aawaz, Nepal
Nagarik Aawaz has been doing peace work and conflict management for 20 years. In every war, women are victims of violence. They are left alone with their traumas, stigmatized and pushed to the margins of society. With this project, Nagarik Aawaz wants to give these women a voice. Supported by the organization, they are seeking to establish a dialogue with the public and with schools in order to change attitudes in society.
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