The FFFV project aims to enhance gender equality and empowerment of women and girls and those who have other gender identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Paraguay, Peru, and Mexico. It focuses on raising awareness of their rights, expanding their access to health services, contraceptives and other essential products, and preventing violence in their lives.
To further our goals, we use evidence-based interventions that demonstrate sustainable changes over time such as Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), an approach based on a framework of rights that seeks to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values they need to determine and enjoy their sexuality (physical and emotionally), individually and in their relationships.
By focusing on strengthened prevention and response to gender-based violence in alignment with a theory of change which underlies all the actions, we have identified four key domains of change in which gender power structures operate:
Transforming individual beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
Strengthening SGBV primary prevention at individual, relational, community, and institutional levels to transform cultural norms and practices.
Increase access to services and resources, specially the health response to SGBV for women, girls, and those who have other gender identities.
Influencing laws and policies to promote increased government commitment and accountability to prevent and respond effectively to SGBV.
The project aims to reach an expansive combination of direct and indirect beneficiaries by leveraging more than 230 collective years of partners’ robust experience advancing gender equality and SRHR, as well as specialized expertise in addressing SGBV. This project brings together partners’ deep trust-based relationships and their honed skills for ensuring health, rights, and justice for women, girls, and gender-diverse people in widely diverse communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with specific local implementation expertise in Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay.
The project Feminist Futures Free from Violence funded by Global Affairs Canada includes a three-year process which sets forth an ambitious and comprehensive approach to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Latin America, with a focus on Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay. This project is been carried out in collaboration with one global partner (Equimundo) and five local implementing partners: Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir/Mexico (CDD), Red Nacional de Refugios (RNR), and Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional de Feminicidio (OCNF) in Mexico, Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de la Mujer (CEPAM-Guayaquil) in Ecuador, and Centro Paraguayo de Estudios de Población (CEPEP) in Paraguay.
The target population is women, girls, and people with other gender identities, with an emphasis on reaching young people as well as poor and marginalized groups, in addition to an innovative component focused on positive male engagement. The use of participatory feminist methodologies, South-South exchanges, and gender-transformative, intersectional, and human rights-based approaches throughout all stages of project design, implementation, and evaluation will be instrumental to its success.
In alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this initiative is contributing to poverty reduction by fostering the individual and collective agency of women, girls, and those with other gender identities to be full participants in their families and communities, indirectly expanding their educational and employment opportunities. This initiative will also influence two of the action areas established in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy: action area 1 (Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls) and action area 2 (Human Dignity).
During the first year of the project has been progress towards the goals with main results achieved, such as: All our implementing partners have demonstrated a gender transformative perspective in their programs, services and materials meeting criteria for the provision of a full range of youth friendly SRH services and information; The specific populations of beneficiaries are sex workers, trans women, and women’s organizations from marginalized areas, indigenous and afro descendant women and girls; at least 485 women and girls have been provided with access to sexual and reproductive health services; over 4900 of people reached with Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE); and 1 institutionalized participation mechanism used to advance the SRHR agenda.
A social organization that works to promote a society free of violence against women, children, adolescents, youth; and, the full exercise of the DSDR through interventions related to education, capacity building, incidence, and provision of accompaniment, among others.
An organization that works to promote and defend comprehensive health and the SRHR of people, especially the least attended and/or most discriminated population, through activities such as sensitization to decision makers, development of national studies and dissemination of results, making recommendations for actions and strategies based on their experience and research carried out, educating, training and providing SRH services.
An organization of believers that, from an ethical, catholic, and feminist perspective, joins the defense of the human rights of women and young people, particularly Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights, including access to safe and legal abortion, and its link with social justice, democracy, and secularism, through various actions of education, advocacy, capacity building and work with strategic allies in various parts of Mexico.
A global organization that works to promote gender equality and the creation of a world free of violence, involving men and boys in collaboration with women, girls, and people of all gender identities. Through its interventions, Equimundo promotes and strengthens the capacities of men and boys to integrate healthy masculinities and challenge harmful gender norms that allow GBV to exist.
An organization that works to monitor, monitor and systematize information on the lack of prosecution and administration of justice for GBV survivors and victims of femicide in Mexico, articulates with local organizations and groups to influence in public policies, protocols, and other existing mechanisms to respond to these problems.
An organization that brings together diverse civil society organizations, working on the care, response, and reception of GBV survivors in Mexico. The organization carries out the work of accompaniment and support to survivors of violence, as well as advocacy actions in public policies, training public servants, and community interventions to strengthen the Network.
An intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. As the connecting fabric of this Alliance, Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action, amplifies partners’ work, and promotes South-South learning and collaboration toward achieving common objectives.
