The Women’s Voice & Leadership project IN GUATEMALA

This project (2019-2023) is led by the Tz’ununija’ Indigenous Women’s Movement in Guatemala with funding from Global Affairs Canada. Guatemala faces high levels of violence and widespread violations of women’s rights, which disproportionately impact Indigenous women. Through core funding, program support and capacity strengthening, Oxfam is working with Tz’ununija’ to support the strong, autonomous Indigenous women’s rights organizations best placed to advance gender and racial equality and Indigenous women’s rights in Guatemala.

For Oxfam, how we approach projects is just as important as their outcomes. Therefore, a key component of this project is shifting power to Tz’ununija’ to co-design and co-implement the project and the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) process for it. The result is an initiative led and owned by the Indigenous partner, and whose processes and tools entirely reflect their specific needs and worldviews.

The global Women’s Voice and Leadership program hints at what a decolonized approach to programming might look like: funding is partner focused rather than project focused, and the partners are defining the issues for which they want support. It was specifically designed to meet the needs of local women’s organizations and thus, enables such an approach.

https://www.oxfam.ca/publication/indigenous-women-rising-up

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