As a women’s fund, South Asia Women Foundation India (SAWF IN) supports grassroots initiatives and women’s and trans* person led organisations with financial and non-financial resources. We believe in their leadership and skills to find the most appropriate and long-term solutions to address the issues facing them. We also understand that women’s groups engaged in gender-transformative work continue to operate with limited resources and systems of support; as many are under-resourced and rarely equipped to access donors, they need more long-term support. SAWF IN engages and promotes rights-based work of marginalised women-led groups and organisations that need the additional resources to build and strengthen their institutions.

Our role is to ensure that resources are made available and are reaching the most dispossessed women’s collectives, for the priorities they identify, and the claims they make. We support organisations led by women, to scale their strategies for political, social, and economic empowerment of women and trans* persons. While we support the agenda prioritised by grassroots groups of marginalised women and trans* persons, our current grants on women and trans* communities’ rights span across these priority areas:

1.  Economic participation and economic justice for women and trans* persons
2.  Elimination of gender-based violence

Write to sawfindia@gmail.com if you are interested in supporting the work of women's groups.

Our partners

Diya Welfare Society, Chitrakoot- SAWF IN is committed to supporting women’s and trans* rights organisations and activists in their work to advance their rights and leadership in India. We support community organisations, collectives and individual experts working collaboratively with community actors to bring a holistic and sustainable change using feminist principles. Read More