New Field Foundation Grants

Through its main grantmaking programme "Rural Women Creating Change", New Field Foundation supports African rural women, their organisations, and networks in sub-Saharan Africa to increase their agency over resources, information, and policy. Rural Women Creating Change grants are intended to enable:

• Local Organising: to bring significant improvement to rural women's organisations, their families, communities, and countries;
  
• Movement Building: to contribute to a dynamic movement of rural women who are creating social change; and
• Systemic Change: to promote African rural women's leadership that creates economic justice, gender equity, and peace at local, provincial, and national levels.

New Field chooses to concentrate its support in regions that are going through transformation after years of conflict or other upheaval. The programme concentrates on three focus areas: 1) Casamance, Senegal: Kolda district; Kerewane, Gambia; 2) Mano River Union: Kissidougou, Guéckédou, and N'zerekore districts of Guinea; Kailahun and Kono districts of Sierra Leone; Lofa county of Liberia; and 3) Niger River Basin: border area between Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali. The majority of these grants go to support local groups that are organising collectively to create "thriving, equitable, and peaceful communities for rural African women and their families."

New Field Foundation is particularly interested in organisations that:

• Are African-based, women-led, and community-centred;
  
• Increase the resources and agency of rural women's organisations and networks;
  
• Can receive and manage international funds;
• Are well established in the communities in which they work;
  
• Demonstrate well functioning management, finance, and programmatic systems; and 
  
• Are benefitting rural women and their organisations through systemic change.

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