Cadasta is pleased to award a Data Accelerator Grant to Espaço Feminista, a Brazilian feminist civil society organization, located in Recife and founded in 2008 with the mission to contribute to women’s empowerment from a feminist perspective through political formation, knowledge and partnership building, human rights enforcement, and advocacy.
Under Cadasta’s Global Land Rights Challenge Fund, Cadasta launched its Data Accelerator Grant in late 2019 to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide. The first round of the Data Accelerator Grant was awarded to three African organizations in April 2020.
Espaço Feminista is the first organization to receive a grant under the second round of the Data Accelerator Grant and will use the funds and Cadasta’s Platform to work with the Government of Bonito to map and document 17 informal settlements and 4,000 households, giving priority to women as primary beneficiaries, regardless of their marital status.
Commenting on how the grant will support their work, Co-founder and Executive Director of Espaço Feminista Patricia Chaves said, “Cadasta’s Platform and tools will allow us to speed up the documentation of women’s land rights in Bonito while also allowing us to deepen our knowledge about the communities being documented. The grant will provide the resources needed to train our team and the local government to use Cadasta’s tools in other areas of Brazil.”
“We are thrilled to award Espaço Feminista a Cadasta Data Accelerator Grant,” said Cadasta’s CEO Amy Coughenour Betancourt, “By using the grant funds and Cadasta’s Platform to document these informal communities, they can support the local government to make more informed and data-driven decisions that contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
For more information, including application requirements and selection criteria, visit: 145944a268.nxcli.io/grants or contact: grants@145944a268.nxcli.io
About Espaço Feminista:
Espaço Feminista or Feminist Space for Democracy and Human Rights is a civil society umbrella organization created in 2008 by a group of 10 women activists to create an open space to unite women’s voices and to fight against women’s social and political exclusion rooted in gender and race inequality. Espaço Feminista’s mission is to contribute to women’s empowerment through political formation, knowledge building (research and studies), and advocacy in order to influence public policy agenda setting (formulation and implementation), as well as human rights enforcement, working in collaboration with a very diverse network of strategic partners (alliance building), challenging social exclusion, gender and race inequality as the key elements of social injustice.
Notes to Editors:
- Espaço Feminista’s website: www.espacofeminista.org
- Espaço Feminista’s Twitter: @EspaoFeminista1
- Espaço Feminista’s Instagram: @feminista.espaco
- Espaço Feminista’s Media Contact: Sofia Barros, sofia@espacofeminista.org
About Cadasta Foundation:
Founded in 2015, Cadasta Foundation is a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that develops and promotes the use of simple digital tools and technology to help partners efficiently document, analyze, store, and share critical land and resource rights information. By creating an accessible digital record of land, property, and resource rights, we help empower individuals, communities, organizations, governments, and businesses with the information they need to make data-driven decisions and put vulnerable communities and their needs on the map.
For more information about Cadasta’s work visit: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/
Notes to Editors:
- Cadasta Land Rights Challenge Fund: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/grants/
- Cadasta’s Twitter: @CadastaOrg
- Cadasta Press: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/press/
- Cadasta Media Contact: Madaleine Weber, Communications Director, mweber@145944a268.nxcli.io