Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer
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Grants
19
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Total Awarded
$4,775,000
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Years
1992 - 2020
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Categories
Grants
2020 ( 7 months)
$50,000
Fondo Semillas is a feminist fund that mobilizes resources and accompanies women-led grassroots organizations in Mexico to advance gender equality. The funded activities will support four to seven local organizations to advocate for quality maternal health care by the public health system in the context of COVID-19. Examples of the work Fondo Semillas will support are: communications campaigns in traditional and social media, advocacy for quality maternal health in the public health system, community-based work with indigenous women and girls, promotion of midwifery models, and documenting women’s experiences.
2017 (2 years)
$120,000
Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Semillas) works with women’s groups and leaders to improve the status of women in Mexico. It provides technical, financial and capacity-building support to groups both in rural and urban communities in Mexico. The award supports Semillas’ efforts to strengthen the capacity of civil society to ensure that Mexico’s post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction resources reach the intended recipients. Award money will be used for stakeholder meetings, public information activities, and litigation to ensure that victims have meaningful access to justice, and that legal action is taken in cases where negligence or corruption resulted in loss of lives and homes.
2013 (3 years 3 months)
$600,000
A grant of $600,000 to Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Semillas) will support its Rural Reproductive Health Initiatives program to fund six locally based indigenous women’s organizations to design and implement projects to improve the reproductive health of indigenous youth in Mexico. Semillas will provide organizations with funding as well as technical assistance and strategic support to build connection with larger agencies and to strengthen outcomes.
2012 (1 year 3 months)
$150,000
Sociedad Mexicana pro Derechos de la Mujer will organize international exchanges for organizations specializing in maternal and reproductive health from Mexico, India and Nigeria, to share strategies for holding governments accountable on these issues. A meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, in early 2012 and follow-up exchanges will provide opportunities to share examples from these and other countries and help prepare for 2015 – the target date for the completion of the Millennium Development Goals. Some funds will support the ICPD+20 review by the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network, with a special focus on Mexico.
2010 (1 year 6 months)
$750,000
To purchase office space and contribute to an endowment (over two years).
2010 (4 years 9 months)
$700,000
To strengthen local capacity and organizing to decrease maternal mortality in rural indigenous areas of Mexico (over three years).
2008 (1 year)
$150,000
To support grassroots projects to prevent maternal mortality and improve young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca.
2007 ( 9 months)
$25,000
In support of the 7th International Conference on HIV/AIDS.
2007 ( 5 months)
$20,000
To support a planning meeting for the broader human rights community to develop common strategies for advancing human rights in Mexico (over one year).
2006 (2 years 10 months)
$250,000
In support of local organizations' initiatives for improving youth reproductive and sexual health or decreasing maternal mortality (over thirty four months).
2006 (4 years 6 months)
$470,000
In support of a program to strengthen the leadership capacity of indigenous women to decrease maternal mortality and improve the population's reproductive health (over three years).
2003 (3 years)
$660,000
In support of leadership development among individuals working in reproductive and sexual health and rights, especially in areas related to young people and maternal mortality and morbidity (over three years).
2001 (4 years 6 months)
$440,000
To develop leaders in the field of reproductive and sexual health (over two years).
2000 (2 years)
$50,000
To stimulate philanthropy in Mexico (over two years).
2000 (1 year)
$50,000
For a meeting of Mexico Fund for Leadership Development grantees to foster professional growth, collaboration, and networking.
1997 (3 years)
$90,000
To support a philanthropy project (over three years).
1996 (1 year 3 months)
$30,000
To develop local philanthropy that benefits women's rights organizations.
1993 (1 year)
$50,000
To support a research, publication, and advocacy program in population and women's reproductive health among an international network of scholar-activists (over three years).
1992 (1 year 6 months)
$120,000
To support a small-grants fund for organizations working in women's health (over two years).
