The initiative follows AWID ‘s important and pioneering work on tracking the access to resources for women’s groups and organization working on women’s human rights. Click here to learn more about the Resource Mapping Initiative

SAWF is in the process of developing an innovative programme for ensuring women’s right to safe and secure movement and countering trafficking. Currently, the programme focuses on India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal), Nepal and Bangladesh; we hope to eventually expand this programme to Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well. This programme has been conceptualized within a framework of the right to secure and safe movement using rights based approach.

Following is the criteria for seeking support under the programme:
• The programme will support women’s groups only.
• It will also support required dialogue and interaction space so that collaboration may flourish.
• SAWF will identify a maximum of three interventions, that adopt an innovative and rights-based approach to women’s right to movement with a focus on countering exploitation and violence against women in situations of trafficking and migration;
• The interventions will support intra-local/state dialogues and capacity building interventions that enable addressing challenges to existing interventions that do not adopt a rights-based approach;
• the interventions and workshop outputs will feed into a broader programme within SAWF that will support a regional programme for advocacy with the focal states for better policies
• As the process is exploratory, the grants will be designed and mutually negotiated, with advice from the Expert advisors on the matter.

For further details about the programme please contact us on sawf@sawf.info