Focus Areas

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The OSI International Women's Program is committed to bringing global attention to gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict situations. The program supports and builds capacity of national and regional women’s groups, human rights groups, and other relevant organizations in select countries to undertake advocacy, education, and outreach. The objective is to promote, protect, and guarantee women’s rights in conflict and post-conflict regions.

This initiative includes the following areas:

• Rights Protection Addressing Discrimination and Violence Against Women
  To demand and support critical initiatives that protect women from all levels of violence during conflict, within a country or in international fora, as well as violence-prevention measures.
• Engendering Transitional Justice
  To support mechanisms to ensure that women have access to justice, as well as reparations and compensation, and are engaged in post-conflict reconstruction.
• Legal and Judicial Reform
  To strengthen the voice of the women’s movement by supporting advocacy efforts and access to decision-making processes, particularly in the post-conflict phase.
• Empowerment
  To build capacity for organizations on the ground to shift power relations affecting the status of women in society, including: 1) ensuring women’s participation in democratic processes and peace-building, 2) women’s and girls’ access to education, and 3) women’s economic livelihoods.

For more information, please see the "Promoting Women's Rights in Conflict/Post-Conflict Zones" grant guidelines.