Progress Report: October 2019 to March 2019 

Thanks to you, in the last four and a half years, more than 8.5 million women and girls have benefited from programs that are enabling them to live safer, healthier, and more productive lives.

World Vision was able to declare and initiate a global response just one hour after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11. With our global positioning, expertise, and long-term relationships with communities and partners, we’re responding to COVID-19 in nearly 100 countries, providing relief assistance to 43 million people, including more than 22 million women and girls, as of July 10.

Progress Report: October 2019 to March 2020 

Strong Women Strong World serves as a connection for women and men worldwide who recognize that women’s empowerment and gender equality are key to lasting social change and essential to the well-being of children, families, and communities.

During the first half of fiscal year 2020, the following programs and projects were supported by the Strong Women Strong World Fund: Water in Rwanda, Child Protection in Kenya, Women's Empowerment Fund, the Syrian Refugee Crisis.

The global water crisis hits women and girls the hardest. Imagine what will happen with 25 million get access to clean water by 2030.

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This document presents World Vision’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approach and theory of change. GESI is integral to achieving World Vision’s “Our Promise” global strategy and child wellbeing objectives.

The GESI approach and theory of change provides guidance on how to fulfill these promises to contribute to the well-being of the most vulnerable children, their families, and communities. It also supports World Vision’s global impact framework by meeting our goal to become a thought leader in advancing evidence-based GESI transformative change.

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Progress Report: October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019 

The Women’s Empowerment Fund (WEF) aims to build the resilience of women and their families, improve gender equality, and support the development of livelihoods by providing vulnerable women increased access to high quality financial services and education.

1.1 million clients have been provided with microloans by leveraging nearly $148 million in equity to support $694 million in loans disbursed. 

Progress Report: October 2018 to September 2019 

Today, more than 8 million women and girls around the world are living safer, healthier, and more productive lives, and we’re just getting started.

Thanks to you, the lives of millions of women and girls are being transformed, as well as those of their families and communities.

Progress Report: October 2018 to September 2019 

During fiscal year 2019, (October 2018 through September 2019), the following projects were supported by the Strong Women, Strong World Fund. The Burundi Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project provided access to clean water for 48,045 people in FY19 by constructing five piped water systems, rehabilitating one water supply water system and 59 water springs, and equipping eight boreholes with hand pumps.

The Women’s Empowerment Fund aims to build the resilience of women and their families, improve gender equality, and support the development of livelihoods by providing vulnerable women increased access to high quality financial services and education. The fund is facilitated by VisionFund, World Vision’s microfinance network.

Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019)

The Women’s Empowerment Fund aims to build the resilience of women and their families, improve gender equality, and support the development of livelihoods by increasing access to and quality of financial services to vulnerable women.

Progress Report: October 2016 to March 2019 

Today, more than 7 million women and girls around the world are living safer, healthier, and more productive lives, and we’re just getting started.

Thanks to you, the lives of millions of women and girls are being transformed, as well as those of their families and communities.

This project in Uganda aims to transform social norms and practices, reduce risks of early marriage, pregnancy, Gender Based Violence (GBV), and HIV infection, and support girls to stay in school.

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