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Forum for Women and Development - FOKUS

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Development
  • Education
  • Extreme poverty
  • Family
  • Financing for Development
  • Governance
  • Human Rights
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Justice
  • Labour
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Population
  • Statistics
  • Sustainable Development
  • Torture
  • Violence
  • Women
  • Youth

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Men and boys
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Social Development:
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • International law
  • Poverty
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation

    • Peace and Development in Africa:
  • Peace in Africa

    • Conflict Resolution in Africa:
  • Conflicts Resolution
    • Geographic scope: International
    Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1999
    Organizational structure: The organization consists of more than 50 Norwegian women's organizations and women's committees in political parties, trade unions, and solidarity and aid organizations
    Number and type of members: 59 member organizations
    Affiliation with NGO networks: wide+. awid. women`s major group
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Grants from Governments
  • Foreign and international grants
    • Funding structure other: FOKUS receives financial support from the Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD), the Ministry of Children and Equality, The Kavli Trust,the NOVO Foundation and the Norwegian Association of Lawyers. aND INDIVIDUAL DONORS
     
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