What is Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS)?
Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS for its acronym in Spanish) is a fund that mobilises financial resources and provides support to organisations that promote women’s and LBTIQ+ people’s rights in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Since 2017, FMS is also coordinating a regional programme called Leading from the South, covering 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
FMS was founded on October 12th, 2007 by six respected feminists, as a collaborative effort to aid the women's movement at a regional and international level, which had already reached the foundation of other women's funds in various parts of the world.
At FMS, we finance and support grassroots initiatives, organisations and networks created and led by women and LBTIQ+ people, who work to achieve transformative results towards gender equality and justice. Our goal is to strengthen women, feminist and diversity movements, from a human rights-based approach, gender perspective, empowerment, intersectionality and interculturality.
Priorities
• Leadership, Voice-Agency and Political Participation
• Economic Justice
• Eradication of Violence and Discrimination
• Socio-Environmental Justice
• Diverse Gender Identities and Sexualities
Mission
To mobilise financial resources and provide technical assistance to strengthen organisational capacities of women's and LBTIQ+ organisations in situation of most socio-economic, political, cultural, geographic and environmental disadvantages, which aim to advance gender equality and social justice.
Vision
To contribute to building societies where women, girls and LBTIQ+ people enjoy full exercise of their human rights, are empowered to defend and advocate for them, and have access to equal opportunities to develop their entire potential and wellbeing, free from all forms of violence.
