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Thematic Areas

Semia Women's Fund supports and accompanies organizations, networks, and associations with a flexible granting strategy typical of feminist funds. Participating organizations will be able to identify issues within their respective contexts and propose actions, intervention techniques, and the most appropriate strategies to achieve their goals within broad thematic areas. Additionally, the foundation will provide comprehensive support by assisting organizations with capacity-building techniques (such as project design, planning, strategy, and sustainability) and opportunities for connections and strategic alliances with networks, donors, and other stakeholders committed to advancing gender rights.

Semia operates within three major programmatic areas that represent the issues highlighted by the Italian feminist and gender movement as the most urgent and necessary in the fight against gender inequalities.

Self-determination and Defense of the Right to Choose

This program contributes to strengthening the work of organizations that defend the right of women and transgender/non-binary individuals to make decisions about their own lives, bodies, and finances. The goal is to ensure their access to health and physical, psychological, and emotional integrity, as well as to eliminate the structural violence exercised against them in public and private spaces.

The program supports organizations and networks defending people's freedom to self-define and express their identity peacefully, without facing discrimination and violence. Additionally, it promotes the work of all organizations aiming to counter anti-choice movements openly opposed to the democratic values of self-determination and free choice for women, transgender, and non-binary individuals.

What topics does this program address?

> Combatting structural gender-based violence
> Human Rights
> Identity (LGBTQI+ population, racialized communities, migrants, people with disabilities, etc.)
> Sexual and reproductive health
> Mental health

Work, Independence, and Economic Justice

This program contributes to strengthening organizations that advocate for the rights of women and transgender/non-binary individuals to dignified working conditions, discrimination-free workspaces, and aim to achieve a balance between work and private life. Additionally, it aims for genuine political, economic, and social representation.

Beyond addressing exploitation, discrimination, and violence, the program aims to promote the economic and financial independence of women, along with access to work under conditions of fairness and equality. Additionally, it seeks to raise visibility and recognition for domestic and caregiving work historically assigned to women.

What topics does this program address?

> Access to the job market
> Rights of female workers
> Financial education
> Gender pay equity
> Work-life balance
> Female entrepreneurship
> Domestic and caregiving work
> Sex work
> Maternity and welfare
> Political, economic, and social representation

Education for awareness and support for activism

This program acknowledges the central role of culture and education in promoting and defending gender equality, serving as catalysts for systemic change to eliminate any remnants of patriarchal culture still present in public and private life.

The program aims to support organizations involved in emotional and gender education in schools, as well as activities geared towards raising awareness among women, men, transgender, and non-binary individuals about their personal and political relationship with social structures historically centered around the importance of men, white, and heterosexual individuals (such as couple dynamics, family, and the broader community). This is to empower them to become active protagonists in accelerating processes of change.

In addition, the program aims to support activism as a positive and transformative force, mobilizations, and demonstrations by activists as a tool for raising awareness and awakening social consciousness. It advocates for social agitation as a democratic and collective moment of participation in civil and political life and the defense of inalienable rights.

Finally, this program acknowledges the importance of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data from a feminist and transfeminist perspective. It aims to encourage innovation and the use of technologies, inventions, or new methodological approaches to create a fairer and more just society for girls, women, transgender, and non-binary individuals.

What topics does this program address?

> Sexual, affective, and emotional education
> Support for activism
> Culture and sports
> Research and data analysis

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