BUILDING ADVOCACY AND FUNDRAISING CAPACITY FOR WOMEN-LED ORGANIZATIONS IN COLOMBIA

CARE is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to
ending global poverty. In 2022, CARE launched an innovative pilot
that focused on capacity-sharing, learning, and grant-making for
women-led organizations (WLOs) in four conflict-affected settings,
including 15 WLOs in Colombia’s Nariño region. The pilot aimed to
increase the representation of women and girls’ priorities and needs
in humanitarian settings through direct funding to WLOs. CARE
enlisted the Capstone team to understand how to strengthen and
scale up WLO capacity to serve women and girls more effectively.
During its fieldwork in Bogota and Pasto, Colombia, the team led
interviews with key institutional stakeholders, conducted in-person
visits to WLOs, and held a participatory workshop for WLO leaders.
Guided by its fieldwork, the team created an easy-to-use, interactive
toolkit in Spanish for partner WLOs to use in expanding their global
networks and advocating for funding.