The South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF) has published a resource mapping study covering all five South Asian countries i.e. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The study was undertaken in order to identify and map:
- The availability of resources for social justice work
- The allocation for women’s human rights work within that, and
- The access of women’s groups and organisations to these resources
The study explores the:
- • baseline available resources for human rights work and tracks allocations for women’s rights work and to women’s groups and organizations
- • identifies the obstacles and challenges faced by women’s groups and organisations in accessing resources for undertaking their activism and work to ensure human rights of women
- • identifies and creates a data base of information on available resources: fiscal, technical and in kind, that can be used to strengthen women’s movements for human rights in the region
- • identifies areas for capacity building and support required by women’s groups to enhance and strengthen their outreach and access to required resources
It is hoped that the study will be widely shared and used as a strategic advocacy and planning document to augment women’s access to resources to support and strengthen their struggles for human rights.