Human trafficking is a problem we hear about, we know it exists but many of us are not aware of the magnitude of the problem, nor that this is an issue that touches us all. According to the ILO's most recent numbers: 40.3 million people globally are victims of human trafficking. Of those trafficked, 72% are girls and women.
About this EventIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic NGOs have had to ensure the continuity of the education of children in developing countries while schools were closing. Particular effort was placed on girls who were particularly affected by this crisis. During our discussion we would like to raise awareness of the challenges faced by NGOs and how they can and have set up innovative solutions to reach those girls and their communities in different regions of the world.
Please join us at the first informal members' lunch of 2021. Megan Patterson-Brown, psychologist, and Frédérique Lambrakis-Haddad, a mental health therapist, will guide a conversation in which we can talk about what has been difficult and how we have stayed resilient and positive during the pandemic.
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Many of our members have said that they would like meet on a regular basis. We are therefore in the process of selecting a central location for our Giving Women Friday Circle.
To facilitate the organisation for the “Friday Circle” we have set up a WhatsApp group which you are welcome to join https://tinyurl.com/Friday-Circle and we will use it to connect regarding the planned meetings.
All future plans will also be communicated to everyone in the normal way via Giving Women.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 1 September at Rathaus Cafe.
Please join us to delve into the pivotal role of SMART indicators in effective monitoring and evaluation. We will explore how indicators bring focus to our desired positive changes and a lens for continuous improvement. In this interactive session, we will master the craft of creating SMART indicators tailored to the outcomes of our own projects. We will also review how to use indicators to maximize our social impact.
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Dr Tanya Murphy is a member of GW Excom, co-lead of the monitoring sub-committee, and a specialist in impact measurement and management. Tanya is a social entrepreneur and philanthropist. With a Ph.D. in social anthropology and 30 years of experience, she has worked in Europe, the Middle East, USA and Africa. Tanya specialises in social impact management for social enterprises and social development programs. Education is a particular passion and she founded and runs a small charity, the Zoe Sarojini Education Trust in memory of her late sister. She is an active member of Giving Women, helping to maintain and to increase our contribution to the well-being of women around the world, including ourselves.
This will be an informal lunch with our founder, Atalanti Moquette, attending along with some members of the Giving Women Executive Committee.
While this is an event largely for members, we welcome anyone who is interested in joining Giving Women to also attend.
We will meet at Afghan Anar from 12pm and kindly note that each participant will pay for their own lunch.
Register Now!We look forward to seeing many of you in person at our offices for this apero.
We have invited Elise Buckle, co-founder of SHE Changes Climate,a global campaign enabling women in all diversity, to lead equitable climate action globally.
She will speak to us about the work of SHE Changes Climate that is focused on increasing female representation at all levels of climate decision making, by influencing key players, campaigning for public support, collaborating with counterparts and amplifying the overlooked. As our Annual Conference in 2024 will be on women in climate, we thought this would be an ideal opportunity to start the conversation.
In-person Space is Limited so Register Soon BelowFollowing the panel conversation we held back in April this year, where the founder of Skateistan was one of the panelists, we are delighted to be able to screen this Oscar and BAFTA award-winning documentary.
This short film/documentary follows a group of girls who are attending the ‘Back to School’ program at Skateistan to help them enter or rejoin formal education. Alongside winning an Academy Award, the film has also won a BAFTA and won Best Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Skateistan, founded in 2008 in Kabul, runs skateboarding and creative education programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) is a moving account of a group of girls in Kabul and their progress through their classes at Skateistan. The Skate School is seen as a refuge from the dangers and insecurity of life outside its walls. We see the interaction between the girls and their female teachers, some of whom are former Skateistan students, and the bonds that are created between women and girls in challenging environments.
It’s fitting that the film was shot with an entirely female crew, on location in Kabul in 2017. Afghanistan is consistently ranked as one of the worst places in the world to be a girl, but the film shows another side to life and childhood in Kabul. We see the girls in the classroom at Skateistan, being guided by their teachers who encourage them to be brave by coming to the board. They tell stories to each other, joke around and clap for each other when they get things right. In the skatepark, they watch their educator in awe as she demonstrates her skills, before getting on the boards themselves and helping each other to balance.
The screening will be followed by a Q & A with the founder and executive director of Skateistan, Oliver Percovich.
This clinic is to help our Project Circles understand the importance of Monitoring & Evaluation as a tool for accountability and learning. After a quick dive into the key elements of the M&E framework, we will address challenges PCs might face in establishing their M&E system. We want this workshop to be as interactive and practically useful as possible.
*This workshop is open to all GW members, but please note it will be specifically targeting Project Circles.
**If you are a current Project Owner and were unable to register to the workshop, please contact us.
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Elianna is an active giving women member and member of the executive committee. She has been working in the field of development for more than 15 years in direct programme implementation, and more recently as a grant maker. Elianna has conducted many evaluations for Giving Women projects and sat on several project circles.
Sophie is an active giving women member and also sits on the executive committee. Sophie spent a decade building her career in London's financial sector, with expertise in Leveraged Finance later transitioning to private equity. Upon relocating to Switzerland, she engaged in local volunteering activities and competitive ski touring races while raising her four children. In 2020, Sophie Pelka co-founded the Give It Forward Trust (GIFT) with two partners. GIFT embodies her belief in the power of professionalized philanthropy to drive sustainable changes, especially for women and girls.
This workshop proposes to focus on what we mean by governance, why good governance is important, the characteristics of a good governance framework and the roles and responsibilities of the different actors within that framework. We will touch on some of the practicalities of setting up and supporting a Board, including managing conflicts of interest. Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance of the workshop, as well as suggestions for specific themes that they would like to see addressed.
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Joanne Goetz is a member of GW and a corporate governance expert, having worked with boards, committees and management at a senior level in the fields of scientific cooperation and international development. She is currently Head of Governance in a Geneva-based international organisation which brings together both the public and private sector. In addition to her corporate governance experience, Joanne has worked in project management roles and as data protection officer.
* We also encourage you to watch one of our previous Panel on the topic of "Nonprofit Boards: How to make them more effective", held in June 2023 and available on our Youtube Channel.
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The challenge of finding unrestricted funding is ubiquitous in every discussion with beneficiary organisations large and small. Is unrestricted funding the way to go? Why are funders finding this so difficult to do?
Join us for a conversation with a panel made up of directors of two grant-giving foundations, the director of a Giving Women project and Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah, the CEO of OXFAM to discuss the merits and impact of their Women’s Rights Fund (WRF) which supports women’s rights organisations (WROs) with flexible, multi-year funding to invest in their own priorities.
Katharina Samara-Wickrama, director of Issues Affecting Women Programme (IAWP) at Oak Foundation will be moderating the conversation
Our panelists will be:
Muriel Guigue, Head of Philanthropy, Cartier Philanthropy
Olivia Leland, Founder & CEO of Co-Impact
Amisa Rashid, Founder and Executive Director Nivishe Foundation
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah,CEO, OXFAM
Bios to follow
Katharina Samara-Wickrama - Moderator
A lawyer by training, Katharina began her humanitarian career in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) where she worked primarily on promoting gender equality and the rights of refugee women. Thereafter she set up the first joint NGO programme to prevent and address sexual exploitation and abuse of refugee women and girls, training staff on the issue and conducting investigations into allegations of abuse and exploitation. More recently she led the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership. Katharina is currently the Director of the Issues Affecting Women programme of Oak Foundation supporting initiatives that address violence against women, intra-familial violence and trafficking and exploitation of women. Katharina’s passion is to open spaces for the voices that most often go unheard. Otherwise you can find her dipping in the chilly waters of Lake Geneva or making music with a community of Afro-Brazilian Samba Reggae drummers. Her favourite vegetable is chocolate.
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Muriel Guigue
Before joining the Cartier Philanthropy in 2016, Muriel worked for the last 15 years within UN agencies (UNCTAD, UNOG, ITC) and Foundations (International Cocoa Initiative, Trafigura Foundation and Puma Energy Foundation), and has extensive experience of programme management, with a specific focus on monitoring and evaluation of projects in developing countries. Muriel holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Grenoble and a diploma in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
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Olivia Leland
Olivia is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative for equitable systems change at scale, focused on advancing gender equality and elevating women and girls’ power, agency and leadership at all levels. Olivia has more than two decades of international experience in philanthropy, government, and the non-profit sector. Prior to Co-Impact, Olivia was the founding director of the Giving Pledge – an effort launched by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to help address society’s most pressing problems by encouraging increased philanthropy. Previously, Olivia worked in microfinance and financial inclusion, and in the areas of strategy development, multi-sector collaboration, and advancing gender equality.
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Amisa Rashid
Amisa Rashid is a counselling psychologist and a mediator specializing in peace building and Trauma Healingcentring her work on Trauma informed resilience for community building. Aiming at reducing conflict and violence in her community, Amisa is the Founder and Executive Director of Nivishe Foundation whose main objective is building community resilient using Trauma informed programs for peaceful social cohesion to her community by creating safe spaces and offering psychosocial support to victims of violence. Being an individual who values inclusivity she has pioneered Nivishe in offering Mental Health services through sign languages which since its commencement has managed to serve 200 individuals with hearing Aid challenges. To have a holistic approach in her field she is also a 2020 IPHRD (International Peace and Human Rights Development) Africa Fellow as a young woman Mediator Ambassador. She is the also the only Kenyan chosen among 10 participants globally to participate in the 2021 Orygen Global fellowship for young Mental Health Advocates.
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Dr Danny Sriskandarajah
Danny has been Chief Executive Officer of Oxfam Great Britain since January 2019. Prior to that he spent six years as Secretary General of CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance. He has previously been Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation and held various posts at the Institute for Public Policy Research. From 2018 to 2019 he was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and from 2015 to 2016 a member of the High Level Panel on Humanitarian Finance. He has been a Trustee of the Baring Foundation, Comic Relief, and International Alert, and a member of the Lead Group of Scaling Up Nutrition.
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