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.
Bolivia
Asociación Kay Pacha
Project: Arts and crafts for survival
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: Asociación Kay Pacha, Bolivia
The women on Lake Poopó were already organized into 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.
Bolivia
Colectivo CASA
Project: Organic farming instead of mining
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: 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.
Bolivia
Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural)
Project: Medicines from the forest
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural), Bolivia
Deforestation, mining, and extensive agriculture are a threat to the livelihood of the indigenous Tacana people. Women having a broad knowledge of traditional herbal medicine – that is very widespread in Bolivia – are better positioned to counter this threat. The C-Plural foundation helps the female botanic experts to improve production processes and marketing of their products.
Bolivia
Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA)
Project: Strengthening women affected by violence
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: 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 gives 20 women the opportunity to train as community therapists who can then accompany and support female victims of violence in therapy groups. In this way, the women learn about their rights and are able to free themselves from situations of violence.
Bolivia
RENACE (Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica)
Project: Strengthening small women entrepreneurs
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 10/25–09/28, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: 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 of improving the marketing of their local products.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amica Educa
Project: Initiating change
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project duration: 08/23–07/26
Partner organisations: 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.
Brazil
Casa de Maria
Project: Palm nuts as an opportunity
Country: Brazil
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2023
Partner organisations: Casa de Maria, Brazil
With the Casa de Maria cooperative’s help, palm nut gatherers – most of whom are single mothers currently living on social security – want to develop their self-made licuri and babassu nut oil, and other products to market readiness in order to improve their economic and social standing. In addition, the project plans to build a support network consisting of women’s cooperatives.
Brazil
Instituto Cordilheira
Project: Women fighting for their land
Country: Brazil
Project duration: 10/23–09/26
Partner organisations: Instituto Cordilheira, Brazil
Extensive mining is threatening the existence of many rural communities in Minas Gerais. The project supports women who campaign for human rights and an intact environment. They learn how to deal with the competent authorities while receiving assistance in establishing their economic independence in the field of medicinal herbs and aroma therapy.
Colombia
CENTRAP and Casa Ernestina Parra
Project: Safety and perspective
Country: Colombia
Project duration: 07/23–07/25, project partner since 2021
Partner organisations: 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.
Israel
Kayan Feminist Organization
Project: Rights for Palestinian women
Country: Israel
Project duration: 01/25–12/27, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: 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.
Kenya
CDGN
Project: Strengthening through networking
Country: Kenya
Project duration: 05/24–04/25
Partner organisations: CDGN, Kenia
Community Development Group Network CDGN connects and supports small selfhelp groups and CBOs by offering further training courses in financial planning, reporting, and fund raising. In addition, it carries out joint advocacy activities on the topic of human and women’s rights. More than 40 organizations have already joined the network.
Kenya
Namirama
Project: Human rights and sustainable development
Country: Kenya
Project duration: 07/25–07/27, project partner since 2024
Partner organisations: 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.
Kenya
Wakina Mama Shupavu
Project: Self-aid to provide for old age
Country: Kenya
Project duration: 07/25–06/26, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: Wakina Mama Shupavu, Kenya
Wakina Mama Shupavu – “strong, hardworking mothers” – is a cooperative that started in 2022 with a small pig breeding project. Today, it already includes three groups, two of which have founded a traveller’s café to generate more income for the women involved. In 2025, Wakina Mama has undergone a reorientation and started a new project for sustainable farming.
Nepal
Nagarik Aawaz
Project: To live with dignity
Country: Nepal
Project duration: 05/24–04/26, project partner since 2021
Partner organisations: Nagarik Aawaz, Nepal
For 20 years, Nagarik Aawaz has been working in the areas of peace-making and conflict management. 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 bring about a shift in society’s mindset.
Peru
Las Comunes
Project: Counteracting violence through music
Country: Peru
Project duration: 07/25–07/27, project partner since 2024
Partner organisations: Las Comunes, Peru
Women and young people defend themselves against violence by composing and writing their own songs and raps against violence towards women and children. Their musical appeals are distributed via social media and aim at breaking up the patriarchal narrative. Founded in 2024, Las Comunes is breaking new ground in violence prevention with its pilot project.
Uganda
Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT)
Project: Knowing one’s rights
Country: Uganda
Project duration: 10/24–10/26, project partner since 2021
Partner organisations: 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 an education 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. In 2025, the project was maintained and extended to 40 women’s groups.
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
Partner organisations: 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.