Mama Cash Strategic Plan 2022-2024 (2027)

Mama Cash receive's core support from Sida as of annual year 2022. Sida funding is not being forwarded. Mama Cash's strategic plan (or Strategic Guide which is the term they themselves use) is called "In Movement Together: Funding Feminist Action Globally" and covers the period 20212030. For each year planning cycle, a results framework (RALF) focusing on intermediary outcomes and indicators and outputs for the upcoming period is developed. Mama Cash provides grantmaking to new groups and individuals through five participatory grantmaking funds. Mama cash has also a proven track record of catalysing funding to the women´s movement working for more and better funding for women human rights defenders. The Resilience Fund provides core, flexible, longterm grants to selfled feminist groups, collectives, and organisations, and to women´s funds. Mama Cash made 35 new grants to the fund in 2023 an increase of 40% over last year and 70 renewal grants and 7 grants in support of Mama Cash grantee partners who are responding to crisis, bringing the total of Resilience Fund grants to 112. The Revolution Fund: supports timely, one off initiatives that create or respond to a strategic opportunity for change, or seed a new project or idea. In 2023, MC nearly double the number of Revolution Fund grants to 30, as well as increase the maximum grant amount to €10,000, up from €7,000 in 2022. The Radical Love Fund supports individual feminist activists in coordinating or catalysing projects, such as creative initiatives, and networking that strengthens bonds across groups or movements. Ten new Radical Love Fellows were selected in 2023. The Solidarity Fund was developed by and for women´s funds to strengthen and support their community. It provides flexible funding to the global community of women´s funds to respond to emerging needs. A committee of women´s funds makes the funding decisions. the number of grants increased in 2023 this year (to 21, up from 12 in 2022), as well as the grant amount (€40,000, up from €30,000). The breadth and depth of Solidarity Fund grantee partners continues to grow, covering more geographic areas than ever before. Grantee partners include both established and emerging women´s funds. Accompaniment grants Mama Cashs accompaniment enables the groups and movements to set up and/or strengthen the knowhow, practices, processes, and relationships that make their work possible and sustainable in the long term. The accompaniment, which focuses on Resilience Fund grantee partner organisations, takes different forms throughout a groups (on average) ten year relationship with Mama Cash. In addition to non-financial accompaniment, such as advice and network-building, grantee partners can also receive accompaniment grants to strengthen their organisation. Mama Cash also provides unique end-of-trajectory grants, which help support grantee partners so that they are better positioned to sustain their work beyond their time with Mama Cash.

Long term goal "Mama Cash's long-term goal is to support the collective action of women, girls, and trans and intersex people who organise to liberate societies from injustice and build feminist realities and futures. We do this by mobilising and moving resources to feminist organising around the world and supporting feminist movements to be autonomous, inclusive, pluralist and resilient" Outcomes The Strategic Plan has the following outcomes: Movement outcomes (as per the results framework) 1. Strengthened movement actors. Movement actors have built their knowledge and skills to contribute meaningfully to movements making change. 2. Coordinated movement actors. Movement actors have mobilised and coordinated their work within and across allied movements. 3. Making change. Movement actors will have created, advanced or blocked changes. 4. Feminist movements are autonomous, inclusive, pluralist and resilient. Money results fundraising outcomes (as per the results framework) 1. More funds secured. 2. Better funds secured. 3. Mama Cash has build its base of support with individuals. 5. More money available to feminist movements. 6. More funding accessible to feminist movements. 7. Mama Cash and women's funds have successful long term partnerships. 8. Funders recognise women's funds as relevant actors in the funding ecosystem In addition to the above outcomes, the intervention also aims at a number of internal outcomes for Mama Cash's own organisation, for example: 1. Supervisory board, management board and staff are reflective of the feminist movements we work with. 6. Learning and acting on what we learn are integral components of our work. 7. Annual CO2 emissions are reduced (compared to the 2018-2019) by 50% by 2030.