count me in!
There was a lot of learning of how we can use the local to influence the international and how the international can influence the local. I felt there was validation as well of the kind of activism I do.
Currently, we are aware of and remember each other as network members and seek advice from each other through acknowledging that we all play different parts in the movement. Elizabeth Ombati | Kenyan disability rights activist and CMI! member
The Count Me In! consortium (CMI!) is a joint initiative with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Led by Mama Cash, consortium members include CREA, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, Just Associates, and the sister funds Urgent Action Fund and Urgent Action Fund-Africa. The sex worker-led Red Umbrella Fund and the Dutch gender platform WO=MEN are strategic partners.
CMI! envisions a world where all women, girls, and non-binary, gender nonconforming, trans and intersex people enjoy their rights fully and live to their full potential. To this end, CMI! supports and invests in their autonomy and capacity to lobby and advocate for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence (GBV), for economic justice, and for sustainable resourcing of women’s rights and women-led organizations and movements.
strategies
money
Securing funding for women’s rights organizations and women’s human rights defenders to build resilient organizations, support partners in emergency situations and include structurally excluded women and girls in grant decision-making.
movement building
Supporting greater resources and coordination for women’s rights organizations as they advocate for their rights. We also help build connections across movements and strengthen alliances.
making change
Leading advocacy for more and better funding for women-led organizations, and supporting political and societal actors to push for social, legal and policy change to reach gender equality.
Note: While these are overall strategies for CMI!, CREA only focuses on the strategies of ‘movement building’ and ‘making change.’
themes
CMI! works broadly under two thematic areas:
- Strengthening the capacity of structurally excluded women, girls, and trans and intersex people to effectively prevent and counter gender-based violence
- Support structurally excluded women, girls, and trans and intersex people to advance economic justice and a fairer and more equitable distribution of resources.
non-conforming, trans and intersex people for a gender-just world
As part of CMI!, CREA supports the anti-GBV advocacy and movement-building efforts of LBT, LGBTIQ, sex workers, and other structurally excluded women, with local, national and regional organizations and collectives in South Asia, East Africa and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa).
CREA co-leads CMI!’s working group to challenge anti-gender mobilization and participates in the feminist economic realities and donor-influencing working groups. In these groups, CREA works with other CMI! members to co-create shared advocacy agendas and influence global perspectives from a feminist lens.
partner organizations
strategic partners
