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A few examples of reformed laws and policies in our sample include:

• Women in peacebuilding: Implementing UN Resolution 1325 adoption in Albania in 2018
• Stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Right of women to choose, abortion rights in Mexico and Argentina
• Increased land rights for women in Benin
• 30% quota for women's political leadership in Kyrgyzstan
• Established anti-trafficking policies in Mexico

• Association of Women with Social Problems in Albania developed a National Action Plan for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325, ensuring women's participation and representation in peacebuilding processes and protecting women and girls from war-related gender based violence. The organization established a coalition, comprised of 31 civil society organizations, called 'Women, Peace and Security' to advocate around peace and security issues. They also led in developing the first National Action Plan to implement Resolution 1325 in Albania with the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality.
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina created stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence. Specifically they recommended specific legal amendments and lobbied regarding the Law on protection from domestic violence in the Republic of Srpska. The amendment extended the possibility for women victims of domestic violence to stay in safe houses beyond the current limit of 3 months with possible extension to 6 months to one year, significantly improving women's access to safety.
• Association Nationale des Femmes Agricultrices Du Benin (ANaF-Benin) took a leading role in advocating for and increasing women's right to land. This significant achievement enabled some women today to recover their land which had been confiscated by men. This work was possible thanks to technical and financial partners such as: UN WOMEN, FES, AWAC, ECLOSIO, AP-OSP, COOPERATION SUISSE.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM strengthened the legal framework in Guatemala and increased women's access to justice.  They have handled approximately 300 cases of legal support in complaints to date, both in labor courts and the General Labor Inspectorate. ATRAHDOM developed and deployed a political advocacy strategy targeting the Congress of the Republic, to achieve the ratification of Convention 189, and to support a women's equality legislative agenda. They have also made international complaints to the OHCHR, with CEDAW, DESC and UPR reports, and have filed complaints with the ILO regarding the violation of the labor rights of working women in the country.
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in coordination with civil society organizations, legislative representatives, and feminist and women's rights movements, networks, and organizations have helped to decriminalize abortion in some states. Progress was made in laws on grounds for legal interruption of pregnancy in several Mexican states and decriminalization in the State of Oaxaca.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico successfully advocated for the approval of the State Program against Human Trafficking in the state of Tlaxcala. The Fray Julián Center coordinated the collective efforts of organizations, community groups, academics and academics to build the Civil and Academic Proposal of the State Program against Trafficking in Persons (2017-2018). 
• Women Support Center in Kyrgyzstan in coordination with local NGOs deployed a successful advocacy campaign which led to 30% mandate for women's representation in local villages. The law was passed  on August 8, 2019. More than 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the bill. The organization also supports rural women, in 2019 training more than 200 women providing them with education and deepened leadership skills to be potential candidates for deputies of local keneshes in the upcoming elections.

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• The  Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative (IMD) was co-founded by Just Associates (JASS) MesoAmerica in association with FCAM, AWID, Consortium Oaxaca, Collectiva Feminista en El Salvador and UDEFEGUA. JASS led coordination efforts of the regional alliance during the first eight years since its founding in 2009. Women human rights defenders (WHRD) have faced alarming increases of violence and homicides in the past decade, have a higher risk for violence in general, and states and duty bearers often act in impunity, disregarding growing rates of femicides, gender based violence and threats. The IMD has played a key role in documenting, collecting statistics and advocating for greater justice for women and women human rights activists at risk, raising awareness in the public, governments, media and civil society spheres. The movement building dimension of this work is powerful, bringing together over 150 women's human rights defenders and their organizations, in all six countries in MesoAmerica. IMD supports WHRD safety and security needs, deepens solidarity ties and support across countries, increases regional power and influence to greater impact national contexts and raises awareness of the violence and necessities of defence and protection and support of WHRDs nationally and regionally. 
• Women Win developed a new feminist sports strategy in 2018, in collaboration with various actors from across the sports, women's rights, women's funds and sport for development sectors. One key element of the strategy has been to support the leadership development of young feminists in sport and to shift power and resources to them by establishing participatory grant-making funds. "We have to call out the huge influence of our partnerships with the women's funds and grassroots female leaders in formalising and pushing forward our feminist sports strategy. We started using sport with women's funds such as FCAM and Semillas 7 or more years ago and we learned a LOT from their experiences on the ground."
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina initiated and signed an Agreement of cooperation, creating an organised structure to combat domestic violence in the country and offer better support to women survivors of domestic violence. Stronger cooperation  between police, government, civil society, and the Ženski Centar was established, deepening women's trust in these institutions and increasing requests for support and help. There were 63 signatories including: the Centre of Public Safety, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Centre for social welfare, the Out-patient clinic, Municipal authority, Office of the Public Prosecutor, media (including the TV departments in Trebinje), all primary and secondary schools, nurseries, kindergartens and the Red Cross in all six Municipality in East Herzegovina (Trebinje, Berkoviƒái, Nevesinje, Bileƒáa, Gacko and Ljubinje).

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• Pastoral Women's Council (PWC) in Tanzania established a microcredit funding program, allowing Maasai women a chance to own their own capital for the first time in their lives, which created ripple effects in their home and community. See the case study for more details!
• Green Lane NGO in Armenia strengthened rural women's economic power and opportunities. Through their programming, rural women in Armenia were able to access new knowledge of sustainable agricultural practices, which improved innovative farming techniques and established more farmer cooperatives, reducing the collective environmental impact of their farming and directly contributing to sustainable environmental stewardship. One key highlight from this line of work is the Green Village brand. Ten women's groups from various rural communities have been supporting joint production of 18 commodities under this brand, and their network and reach is increasing.  
• A women's rights organization in Mozambique implemented income generation and empowerment projects for rural women in the country. The project was funded by UN Women and resulted in diverse and positive outcomes, including increased production and incomes from their projects, and strengthened self-esteem due to income generation. Many women used the extra income to support their family's needs. Some women also started improving their nutrition diets, due to the nutrition education and short courses on alternative diets.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM in Guatemala, over 10 years, have trained more than 15,000 women nationwide in labor rights through training workshops and coordinated through multi-sector alliance building. The results have been significant: two unions, pioneers in the areas of domestic work and maquilas have been legalized. In addition, ATRAHDOM organized a cooperative of women in a textile maquila to project their economic and social rights. Coordination and alliance building have been central strategies for achieving these successes; networks have been built with the municipal offices for women and the Presidential Secretary for women, with the Ministry of Labor, with women's organizations, unions and the peasant movement.
• Association Découvrir has supported more than 3,000 qualified migrants (mainly women) since their founding in 2007 in their professional integration and integration efforts in three cantons of French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva, Neuchâtel and Vaud). According to migrant feedback, more than 40% of them have found a job corresponding to their level and area of ​​expertise. The strategies leveraged to achieve these successes focus on working in a network and in synergy with other associative and state structures, with a view to collaboration instead of competition in order to achieve the common objectives of integration, diversity and inclusion, equality, professional integration, awareness, and recruitment.
• Association de solidarité et de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion "El Ghaith" increased income generating activities for young women and girls in Bordj Bou Arreridj. The women were provided with goats, sheep and bees and trainings to create diverse products, such as cheese, honey and wool through traditional weaving practices. A women's cooperative has been established to supply these 3 products. 

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• The SASA! programme in Uganda, facilitated by Raising Voices, has seen incredible success over two decades in eroding traditional beliefs on women and men’s roles in society, and has broken stigmas around gender-based violence. See our upcoming case study for more!
• Gendes AC in Mexico engaged politicians and policymakers in masculinities awareness with a focus towards the reform of public policy to eradicate gender violence and achieve substantive gender equality. In alliance with the Network Cómplices por la igualdad (and Men Engage), these issues have been brought to Mexican Congress.
• Safe Lives implemented a culture change programme to strengthen police response to domestic abuse for the entire country of Scotland and across the UK. Specifically, SafeLives has delivered the programme to 18 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales and the entire group in Police Scotland, reaching nearly 20,000 officers and staff that police a nation with a population of millions. There are strong signs of positive impact, with better rates in Scotland for the arrest and prosecution of the new offence of Coercive and Controlling Behaviour act than have been achieved in England and Wales, where the programme has only been adopted in some areas. Survivors were integral to the development of the programme and regularly reviewed the materials used, as well as were invited to feed back to Police Scotland regarding their performance. 

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• Women's Fund in Georgia (WFG), a women's fund supporting women's rights organizations and movements, built new knowledge and analysis around environmental justice to lay the groundwork for further national, community and legislative action. WFG, with the support of Mama Cash and Filia.die frauenstiftung, completed the "Situation Analysis and Recommendations on Environmental Justice and Women's Rights in Georgia" investigating whether different types of environmental burdens unduly affect the quality of life of Georgian women, and if so, what are the main economic, social and cultural reasons for this. The analysis also investigated if the Georgian legislative framework and national policies have been adequately addressing the gender dimensions of environmental justice and climate change and its disproportionate impact on women. Gender and climate change is an understudied intersection with significant livelihood and security implications.  
• International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) in Australia created the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) to track mutlidimesional aspects of poverty and depriviation using a transformative feminist lens, opening up new spaces for policy debate, resourcing and action on the most marginalized.  See the case study here!
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in Mexico is a pioneer in the analysis and preparation of public budgets with a gender equity perspective, and has consolidated a method for mainstreaming the gender perspective within both public and private institutions. The organization has created methodologies and models in order to advise, support and provide tools to women's organizations, legislators and the government at its three levels (federal, state and municipal), for the construction of budgets and policies with a gender perspective.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico created a rights based model and training for adolescents in high risk schools to become champions to prevent the violence and trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation (2017-2019).  The model has also served as the basis for the coordination of the Program against Trafficking in Persons of the National Human Rights Commission to prepare and resulted in publishing the Manual of guidelines and tools to prevent trafficking in persons in the educational community.
• Red de Acceso al Aborto Seguro Argentina (REDAAS) increased availability and access to academic and scientific research and information on women's sexual health and right to an abortion. Several technical documents have been prepared. The series of REDAAS Documents is intended for professionals to their work and advocacy in order to guarantee the exercise of the right to abortion for women, adolescents and girls in Argentina. The objective is to build better ethical, legal, clinical and health lines of argumentations for the clarification of values, awareness and training in the provision of safe and legal abortions.

A few examples of reformed laws and policies in our sample include:

• Women in peacebuilding: Implementing UN Resolution 1325 adoption in Albania in 2018
• Stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Right of women to choose, abortion rights in Mexico and Argentina
• Increased land rights for women in Benin
• 30% quota for women's political leadership in Kyrgyzstan
• Established anti-trafficking policies in Mexico

• Association of Women with Social Problems in Albania developed a National Action Plan for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325, ensuring women's participation and representation in peacebuilding processes and protecting women and girls from war-related gender based violence. The organization established a coalition, comprised of 31 civil society organizations, called 'Women, Peace and Security' to advocate around peace and security issues. They also led in developing the first National Action Plan to implement Resolution 1325 in Albania with the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality.
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina created stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence. Specifically they recommended specific legal amendments and lobbied regarding the Law on protection from domestic violence in the Republic of Srpska. The amendment extended the possibility for women victims of domestic violence to stay in safe houses beyond the current limit of 3 months with possible extension to 6 months to one year, significantly improving women's access to safety.
• Association Nationale des Femmes Agricultrices Du Benin (ANaF-Benin) took a leading role in advocating for and increasing women's right to land. This significant achievement enabled some women today to recover their land which had been confiscated by men. This work was possible thanks to technical and financial partners such as: UN WOMEN, FES, AWAC, ECLOSIO, AP-OSP, COOPERATION SUISSE.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM strengthened the legal framework in Guatemala and increased women's access to justice.  They have handled approximately 300 cases of legal support in complaints to date, both in labor courts and the General Labor Inspectorate. ATRAHDOM developed and deployed a political advocacy strategy targeting the Congress of the Republic, to achieve the ratification of Convention 189, and to support a women's equality legislative agenda. They have also made international complaints to the OHCHR, with CEDAW, DESC and UPR reports, and have filed complaints with the ILO regarding the violation of the labor rights of working women in the country.
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in coordination with civil society organizations, legislative representatives, and feminist and women's rights movements, networks, and organizations have helped to decriminalize abortion in some states. Progress was made in laws on grounds for legal interruption of pregnancy in several Mexican states and decriminalization in the State of Oaxaca.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico successfully advocated for the approval of the State Program against Human Trafficking in the state of Tlaxcala. The Fray Julián Center coordinated the collective efforts of organizations, community groups, academics and academics to build the Civil and Academic Proposal of the State Program against Trafficking in Persons (2017-2018). 
• Women Support Center in Kyrgyzstan in coordination with local NGOs deployed a successful advocacy campaign which led to 30% mandate for women's representation in local villages. The law was passed on August 8, 2019. More than 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the bill. The organization also supports rural women, in 2019 training more than 200 women providing them with education and deepened leadership skills to be potential candidates for deputies of local keneshes in the upcoming elections.

• An organization in Cameroon worked with local authorities, religious leaders and women’s groups to reforest a region in the eastern part of the country by planting fruit trees. This group also helped to build water wells to improve WASH standards, and strengthen the environmental stewardship of rural women.
• In Mozambique, a movement-based organization worked with rural women to advocate at the government level for their inclusion in political decision-making processes, creating an informal ‘Ministry’ where they can be heard and better organize themselves. This has resulted in increased political influence and improved their food security. Conversations around government funding for rural women have begun, but not yet materialized.  

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A few examples of reformed laws and policies in our sample include:

• Women in peacebuilding: Implementing UN Resolution 1325 adoption in Albania in 2018
• Stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Right of women to choose, abortion rights in Mexico and Argentina
• Increased land rights for women in Benin
• 30% quota for women's political leadership in Kyrgyzstan
• Established anti-trafficking policies in Mexico

• Association of Women with Social Problems in Albania developed a National Action Plan for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325, ensuring women's participation and representation in peacebuilding processes and protecting women and girls from war-related gender based violence. The organization established a coalition, comprised of 31 civil society organizations, called 'Women, Peace and Security' to advocate around peace and security issues. They also led in developing the first National Action Plan to implement Resolution 1325 in Albania with the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality.
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina created stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence. Specifically they recommended specific legal amendments and lobbied regarding the Law on protection from domestic violence in the Republic of Srpska. The amendment extended the possibility for women victims of domestic violence to stay in safe houses beyond the current limit of 3 months with possible extension to 6 months to one year, significantly improving women's access to safety.
• Association Nationale des Femmes Agricultrices Du Benin (ANaF-Benin) took a leading role in advocating for and increasing women's right to land. This significant achievement enabled some women today to recover their land which had been confiscated by men. This work was possible thanks to technical and financial partners such as: UN WOMEN, FES, AWAC, ECLOSIO, AP-OSP, COOPERATION SUISSE.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM strengthened the legal framework in Guatemala and increased women's access to justice.  They have handled approximately 300 cases of legal support in complaints to date, both in labor courts and the General Labor Inspectorate. ATRAHDOM developed and deployed a political advocacy strategy targeting the Congress of the Republic, to achieve the ratification of Convention 189, and to support a women's equality legislative agenda. They have also made international complaints to the OHCHR, with CEDAW, DESC and UPR reports, and have filed complaints with the ILO regarding the violation of the labor rights of working women in the country.
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in coordination with civil society organizations, legislative representatives, and feminist and women's rights movements, networks, and organizations have helped to decriminalize abortion in some states. Progress was made in laws on grounds for legal interruption of pregnancy in several Mexican states and decriminalization in the State of Oaxaca.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico successfully advocated for the approval of the State Program against Human Trafficking in the state of Tlaxcala. The Fray Julián Center coordinated the collective efforts of organizations, community groups, academics and academics to build the Civil and Academic Proposal of the State Program against Trafficking in Persons (2017-2018). 
• Women Support Center in Kyrgyzstan in coordination with local NGOs deployed a successful advocacy campaign which led to 30% mandate for women's representation in local villages. The law was passed  on August 8, 2019. More than 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the bill. The organization also supports rural women, in 2019 training more than 200 women providing them with education and deepened leadership skills to be potential candidates for deputies of local keneshes in the upcoming elections.

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• The  Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative (IMD) was co-founded by Just Associates (JASS) MesoAmerica in association with FCAM, AWID, Consortium Oaxaca, Collectiva Feminista en El Salvador and UDEFEGUA. JASS led coordination efforts of the regional alliance during the first eight years since its founding in 2009. Women human rights defenders (WHRD) have faced alarming increases of violence and homicides in the past decade, have a higher risk for violence in general, and states and duty bearers often act in impunity, disregarding growing rates of femicides, gender based violence and threats. The IMD has played a key role in documenting, collecting statistics and advocating for greater justice for women and women human rights activists at risk, raising awareness in the public, governments, media and civil society spheres. The movement building dimension of this work is powerful, bringing together over 150 women's human rights defenders and their organizations, in all six countries in MesoAmerica. IMD supports WHRD safety and security needs, deepens solidarity ties and support across countries, increases regional power and influence to greater impact national contexts and raises awareness of the violence and necessities of defence and protection and support of WHRDs nationally and regionally. 
• Women Win developed a new feminist sports strategy in 2018, in collaboration with various actors from across the sports, women's rights, women's funds and sport for development sectors. One key element of the strategy has been to support the leadership development of young feminists in sport and to shift power and resources to them by establishing participatory grant-making funds. "We have to call out the huge influence of our partnerships with the women's funds and grassroots female leaders in formalising and pushing forward our feminist sports strategy. We started using sport with women's funds such as FCAM and Semillas 7 or more years ago and we learned a LOT from their experiences on the ground."
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina initiated and signed an Agreement of cooperation, creating an organised structure to combat domestic violence in the country and offer better support to women survivors of domestic violence. Stronger cooperation  between police, government, civil society, and the Ženski Centar was established, deepening women's trust in these institutions and increasing requests for support and help. There were 63 signatories including: the Centre of Public Safety, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Centre for social welfare, the Out-patient clinic, Municipal authority, Office of the Public Prosecutor, media (including the TV departments in Trebinje), all primary and secondary schools, nurseries, kindergartens and the Red Cross in all six Municipality in East Herzegovina (Trebinje, Berkoviƒái, Nevesinje, Bileƒáa, Gacko and Ljubinje).

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• Pastoral Women's Council (PWC) in Tanzania established a microcredit funding program, allowing Maasai women a chance to own their own capital for the first time in their lives, which created ripple effects in their home and community. See the case study for more details!
• Green Lane NGO in Armenia strengthened rural women's economic power and opportunities. Through their programming, rural women in Armenia were able to access new knowledge of sustainable agricultural practices, which improved innovative farming techniques and established more farmer cooperatives, reducing the collective environmental impact of their farming and directly contributing to sustainable environmental stewardship. One key highlight from this line of work is the Green Village brand. Ten women's groups from various rural communities have been supporting joint production of 18 commodities under this brand, and their network and reach is increasing.  
• A women's rights organization in Mozambique implemented income generation and empowerment projects for rural women in the country. The project was funded by UN Women and resulted in diverse and positive outcomes, including increased production and incomes from their projects, and strengthened self-esteem due to income generation. Many women used the extra income to support their family's needs. Some women also started improving their nutrition diets, due to the nutrition education and short courses on alternative diets.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM in Guatemala, over 10 years, have trained more than 15,000 women nationwide in labor rights through training workshops and coordinated through multi-sector alliance building. The results have been significant: two unions, pioneers in the areas of domestic work and maquilas have been legalized. In addition, ATRAHDOM organized a cooperative of women in a textile maquila to project their economic and social rights. Coordination and alliance building have been central strategies for achieving these successes; networks have been built with the municipal offices for women and the Presidential Secretary for women, with the Ministry of Labor, with women's organizations, unions and the peasant movement.
• Association Découvrir has supported more than 3,000 qualified migrants (mainly women) since their founding in 2007 in their professional integration and integration efforts in three cantons of French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva, Neuchâtel and Vaud). According to migrant feedback, more than 40% of them have found a job corresponding to their level and area of ​​expertise. The strategies leveraged to achieve these successes focus on working in a network and in synergy with other associative and state structures, with a view to collaboration instead of competition in order to achieve the common objectives of integration, diversity and inclusion, equality, professional integration, awareness, and recruitment.
• Association de solidarité et de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion "El Ghaith" increased income generating activities for young women and girls in Bordj Bou Arreridj. The women were provided with goats, sheep and bees and trainings to create diverse products, such as cheese, honey and wool through traditional weaving practices. A women's cooperative has been established to supply these 3 products. 

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• The SASA! programme in Uganda, facilitated by Raising Voices, has seen incredible success over two decades in eroding traditional beliefs on women and men’s roles in society, and has broken stigmas around gender-based violence. See our upcoming case study for more!
• Gendes AC in Mexico engaged politicians and policymakers in masculinities awareness with a focus towards the reform of public policy to eradicate gender violence and achieve substantive gender equality. In alliance with the Network Cómplices por la igualdad (and Men Engage), these issues have been brought to Mexican Congress.
• Safe Lives implemented a culture change programme to strengthen police response to domestic abuse for the entire country of Scotland and across the UK. Specifically, SafeLives has delivered the programme to 18 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales and the entire group in Police Scotland, reaching nearly 20,000 officers and staff that police a nation with a population of millions. There are strong signs of positive impact, with better rates in Scotland for the arrest and prosecution of the new offence of Coercive and Controlling Behaviour act than have been achieved in England and Wales, where the programme has only been adopted in some areas. Survivors were integral to the development of the programme and regularly reviewed the materials used, as well as were invited to feed back to Police Scotland regarding their performance. 

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• Women's Fund in Georgia (WFG), a women's fund supporting women's rights organizations and movements, built new knowledge and analysis around environmental justice to lay the groundwork for further national, community and legislative action. WFG, with the support of Mama Cash and Filia.die frauenstiftung, completed the "Situation Analysis and Recommendations on Environmental Justice and Women's Rights in Georgia" investigating whether different types of environmental burdens unduly affect the quality of life of Georgian women, and if so, what are the main economic, social and cultural reasons for this. The analysis also investigated if the Georgian legislative framework and national policies have been adequately addressing the gender dimensions of environmental justice and climate change and its disproportionate impact on women. Gender and climate change is an understudied intersection with significant livelihood and security implications.  
• International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) in Australia created the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) to track mutlidimesional aspects of poverty and depriviation using a transformative feminist lens, opening up new spaces for policy debate, resourcing and action on the most marginalized.  See the case study here!
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in Mexico is a pioneer in the analysis and preparation of public budgets with a gender equity perspective, and has consolidated a method for mainstreaming the gender perspective within both public and private institutions. The organization has created methodologies and models in order to advise, support and provide tools to women's organizations, legislators and the government at its three levels (federal, state and municipal), for the construction of budgets and policies with a gender perspective.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico created a rights based model and training for adolescents in high risk schools to become champions to prevent the violence and trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation (2017-2019).  The model has also served as the basis for the coordination of the Program against Trafficking in Persons of the National Human Rights Commission to prepare and resulted in publishing the Manual of guidelines and tools to prevent trafficking in persons in the educational community.
• Red de Acceso al Aborto Seguro Argentina (REDAAS) increased availability and access to academic and scientific research and information on women's sexual health and right to an abortion. Several technical documents have been prepared. The series of REDAAS Documents is intended for professionals to their work and advocacy in order to guarantee the exercise of the right to abortion for women, adolescents and girls in Argentina. The objective is to build better ethical, legal, clinical and health lines of argumentations for the clarification of values, awareness and training in the provision of safe and legal abortions.

A few examples of reformed laws and policies in our sample include:

• Women in peacebuilding: Implementing UN Resolution 1325 adoption in Albania in 2018
• Stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Right of women to choose, abortion rights in Mexico and Argentina
• Increased land rights for women in Benin
• 30% quota for women's political leadership in Kyrgyzstan
• Established anti-trafficking policies in Mexico

• Association of Women with Social Problems in Albania developed a National Action Plan for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325, ensuring women's participation and representation in peacebuilding processes and protecting women and girls from war-related gender based violence. The organization established a coalition, comprised of 31 civil society organizations, called 'Women, Peace and Security' to advocate around peace and security issues. They also led in developing the first National Action Plan to implement Resolution 1325 in Albania with the support of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality.
• Ženski Centar Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina created stronger laws protecting women that have experienced domestic violence. Specifically they recommended specific legal amendments and lobbied regarding the Law on protection from domestic violence in the Republic of Srpska. The amendment extended the possibility for women victims of domestic violence to stay in safe houses beyond the current limit of 3 months with possible extension to 6 months to one year, significantly improving women's access to safety.
• Association Nationale des Femmes Agricultrices Du Benin (ANaF-Benin) took a leading role in advocating for and increasing women's right to land. This significant achievement enabled some women today to recover their land which had been confiscated by men. This work was possible thanks to technical and financial partners such as: UN WOMEN, FES, AWAC, ECLOSIO, AP-OSP, COOPERATION SUISSE.
• Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila -ATRAHDOM strengthened the legal framework in Guatemala and increased women's access to justice.  They have handled approximately 300 cases of legal support in complaints to date, both in labor courts and the General Labor Inspectorate. ATRAHDOM developed and deployed a political advocacy strategy targeting the Congress of the Republic, to achieve the ratification of Convention 189, and to support a women's equality legislative agenda. They have also made international complaints to the OHCHR, with CEDAW, DESC and UPR reports, and have filed complaints with the ILO regarding the violation of the labor rights of working women in the country.
• Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia in coordination with civil society organizations, legislative representatives, and feminist and women's rights movements, networks, and organizations have helped to decriminalize abortion in some states. Progress was made in laws on grounds for legal interruption of pregnancy in several Mexican states and decriminalization in the State of Oaxaca.
• Centro Fray Julián Garcés Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Local in Mexico successfully advocated for the approval of the State Program against Human Trafficking in the state of Tlaxcala. The Fray Julián Center coordinated the collective efforts of organizations, community groups, academics and academics to build the Civil and Academic Proposal of the State Program against Trafficking in Persons (2017-2018). 
• Women Support Center in Kyrgyzstan in coordination with local NGOs deployed a successful advocacy campaign which led to 30% mandate for women's representation in local villages. The law was passed on August 8, 2019. More than 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the bill. The organization also supports rural women, in 2019 training more than 200 women providing them with education and deepened leadership skills to be potential candidates for deputies of local keneshes in the upcoming elections.

• An organization in Cameroon worked with local authorities, religious leaders and women’s groups to reforest a region in the eastern part of the country by planting fruit trees. This group also helped to build water wells to improve WASH standards, and strengthen the environmental stewardship of rural women.
• In Mozambique, a movement-based organization worked with rural women to advocate at the government level for their inclusion in political decision-making processes, creating an informal ‘Ministry’ where they can be heard and better organize themselves. This has resulted in increased political influence and improved their food security. Conversations around government funding for rural women have begun, but not yet materialized.  

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