Women’s Fund Asia (WFA) is a regional women’s fund working across 22 countries in South, South East and East Asia with a vision of a just, gender-equal, and democratic region where women, girls, trans, and intersex people’s participation, leadership and enjoyment of human rights is ensured and irrevocable. Our mission is to nurture and lead feminist philanthropy in the region; to effectively mobilise resources to support individuals, groups, and networks by enabling their sustainability; and to strengthen partner capacities, leadership, advocacy, and networks in the field.
In 2024, WFA celebrated its 20 years of resourcing feminist activism in the region. WFA’s journey started in 2004, when it was first registered as South Asia Women’s Fund working in five countries in South Asia. In 2016, WFA undertook a regional expansion, increasing our mandate to 18 countries and now to 22 countries and territories across South, Southeast and East Asia.
WFA seeks to achieve its vision through its following key strategic objectives:
- Resourcing feminist movements in Asia through feminist grant-making that seeds, strengthens and sustains feminist movement-building and feminist leadership in Asia. Please see details in section 2.
- Strengthening the feminist resource architecture for feminist movements in Asia through advocacy, influencing, alliance building, resource mobilisation and communication that focuses on reclaiming resources and addressing the deprioritization of Asia in resource flows.
- Bolstering feminist movement partnerships and power by strengthening feminist perspectives, skills and knowledge, through community exchange and knowledge production.
- Addressing organisational needs, capacities, innovations and processes from a feminist lens to effectively channel more resources to the global South.
