Women Win invests in sport programmes, primarily in developing countries, to create a group of "best in class" community-based organizations which are implementing sport programmes with a women's rights approach. We have partnered with 26 programmes in 19 countries around the world since 2007. Our grants have ranged in size from 5.000 - 50.000 Euro. We do not directly develop or implement our own programmes. We seek to build close working relationships with partner staff to really understand what they are doing, how they are doing it and what the impact is. This enables us to document and develop guidelines and methodologies with them as the source. Ultimately, we believe that by showcasing these strong leaders, and open-sourcing guidelines and methodologies, we can influence others to invest in the sport-for-women's-rights strategies, which is key to our work.
In selecting partners, we try to find organizations that are globally representative and:
Our primary target group in grant giving is to programmes who invest in adolescent girls and young women (ages 10-22) who lack access to social equality, economic opportunities, health information and knowledge of their rights. Girls we serve are often:
Organizations and their programmes are assessed according to our four key criteria:
Note: Women Win does not accept unsolicited partner proposals and granting requests. As of December 2009, volume of interest has mandated that we change our strategy in partners selection and move to an invitation only process.