MADRE organized a delegation of Indigenous women climate defenders from around the world to North Dakota. Together, they addressed the impacts of extractive industries - like oil, gas, mining and hydroelectric mega-projects - in their communities, and how they're fighting back.
We fund work to meet urgent needs in communities, enhance women's leadership and build strong local institutions.
We strengthen the skills of individuals and organizations to mobilize in communities, influence policies and sustain movements.
We mobilize our team of advocates and lawyers to train and accompany partners in shared campaigns for policy change.
Our grassroots partners are women leaders who protect and provide for communities facing war and disaster. Together, we build skills, strengthen local organizations and advance progressive movements. And we bring women's demands to policymakers and advocate for rights, resources and results.
VIVA Girls
Young women and girls are planting the seeds for a feminist future. In our new initiative, VIVA Girls partners with and uplifts girl-led programs, cultivates adolescent girls' leadership and co-creates spaces for girls' voices in our social movements. Together, we're helping a new generation of feminist leaders thrive.
Feminist Foreign Policy Jumpstart
In the face of rising authoritarianism and attacks on rights, women are leading the resistance and offering vital solutions to the most urgent challenges of our time. Yet, they are largely excluded from decision-making spaces. The Feminist Foreign Policy Jumpstart brings global grassroots women's voices and solutions to progressive policymaking. Together, we're changing the way policies are made.
Indigenous Women's Exchange: Guatemala and Nicaragua
For a few days in June, a group of 39 women gathered together in a community on the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. MADRE organized this exchange to convene women from our Indigenous partner organizations, MUIXIL from Guatemala and Wangki Tangni from Nicaragua. We are one of the few organizations creating meaningful transnational opportunities for grassroots women leaders to address shared issues, learn from their peers and develop coordinated strategies for social change.
MADRE has collaborated with local Colombian partners, Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) to create a book profiling a group of Black women organizers. This books names the challenges with surveillance, violence, repression and more - as well as the intergenerational movements to combat them.
