Funding

The Funding group aims to address how women-led organizations and organizations focused on gender equality can be more effectively considered in the allocation of developmental aid. The group also investigates the conditions that prevent funds from being directed to women-led organizations, and it proposes processes that would allow funds to reach these organizations more easily—even in the face of global cuts in developmental aid. Finally, this group is developing a series of concrete recommendations to facilitate a gender-equitable distribution of funds.

Our Experts

Jutta Allmendinger

Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, PhD is the chair of this year’s GEAC under the German G7 presidency. She was previously a member of the UK’s 2021 GEAC. Dr. Allmendinger is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor at Humboldt University Berlin. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, the Communicator Prize and the Schader Prize. She is active on numerous advisory boards in Germany and abroad, such as the supervisory board of Berlin’s BSR Department of Sanitation and the editorial board of the weekly DIE ZEIT. In 2021, she was appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontificial Academy of Social Sciences.

Zarifa Ghafari

Zarifa Ghafari (Afghanistan) is an activist, broadcaster, and defender of women rights in Afghanistan and beyond. She established the Afghan Women Development and Help Foundation to advocate for women’s inclusion in the Afghan National Army. Ms. Ghafari also served as the first female mayor to the Maidan Wardak province in Afghanistan.

Juliane Rosin

Juliane Rosin (Germany) is Head of International Affairs at the National Council of German Women’s Organizations (Deutscher Frauenrat, or DF) and leads this year’s Women7. Her work for the DF has focused on women’s dialogues at the G7 and G20, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and gender equality across Europe.

Sawako Shirahase

Sawako Shirahase (Japan) is Senior Vice-Rector at the United Nations University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Tokyo. She is currently the director of the University Tokyo Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies. Ms. Shirahase’s research interests include comparative social stratification and demographic transformation, gender and generational relations, and family change and the social security system. She has served on numerous Government of Japan councils and advisory boards, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ Statistical Commission and the Social Security Council of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.