2023
Grants approved – February 2023
Number of grants: 15
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1. Non-formal network 8th of March
- RSD: 350.000
- Project title: I cannot live off of my work – marking the 8th of March
I cannot live off of my work aims to mark the 8th March, continuing the tradition of feminist acting in Serbia, and being aligned with the given political moment. This way, the organizers wish to articulate a relevant voice of women in the public, to point at the economic issues women are facing in our society, as well as the day-to-day deterioration of women’s rights. As activists, they wish to offer and strengthen a platform for joint actions of all the women actors in our society advocating for improvements of women’s position.
2. Centre for Biopolitical Education – Biopolis, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Present(ed)
The project implies researching and writing 60 articles on Wikipedia Serbia as a contribution to popularization and complementing the knowledge base, and documenting and acknowledging feminists’ and peace activists’ work in the 1990s, as well as creating a community of women researchers. The project will be operationalized online / in several cities of Serbia from March until June 2023. RWF supports these activities also as a contribution to the efforts of creating an alternative to the practices of erasing progressive (primarily feminist, antimilitarist, antinationalist) knowledge from the public space.
3. The Street Drummers, Belgrade
- RSD: 350.000
- Project title: The Street Drummers Empowerment!
Throughout the years, Women Drummers have been making an important element of the Women’s Day March, as well as of other protests, boosting the atmosphere among the protest participants and empowering them to raise their voices. The aim of the supported activities is a contribution to building and strengthening the feminist movement in Serbia and empowering women to step up in the public space. The Street Drummers aim to continually maintain and additionally prepare the drummers not only for the Women’s Day March but also for other protests of similar values.
4. Centre for Public History, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: The festival of public history: 1990s, strategies of survival and heritage
The second Festival of public history will be held in May 2023 in Belgrade. Throughout four days, the festival will highlight discussions, public lectures, guided public tours, exhibitions and book presentations. The festival aims to entice critical thinking regarding the 1990s, and offer viewpoints presenting an alternative to the nationalist, militarized and patriarchal views of the 1990s past. The festival is devoted to the wider interested audiences, and especially activists, academic and cultural workers, students etc.
5. Hop.La!, Belgrade
- RSD: 394.500
- Project title: We are going to make something about Chelsea Manning, the tile will be To Be or Not to Be
This theatrical project is devoted to the whistleblowing acts and the concept of radical transparency. The base of its preparations are the motifs of the book Readme.txt – the testimony of the former military analyst whose actions have changed our perception of the imperial wars and widened the scope of the gender justice struggle. This is an artistic homage to Chelsea Manning, and at the same time, an experiment based on a dynamic format in which the audience becomes an accomplice, serving actively, being mobilized in direct actions. Local echoes of macropolitical moves are being explored and performed in a public perquisition of an immersive type.
6. The Institute of Social Struggles, Belgrade
- RSD: 295.000
- Project title: The role of workers’ organizations, the Communist Party and women’s organizations in struggles for housing rights in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians – lessons from the past
The researchers/activists wish to explore the history of the struggle for the right to home in our region with a focus on the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in which the welfare state has been born. They are especially interested in the participation of working people, women’s groups and the Communist Party in this issue. The knowledge obtained will be shared with the current actors of progressive leftist struggles which are more inclusive of the right to dignified housing in their programs. The research will be published through texts and promoted through social networks, podcasts, public discussions and the existing media.
7. Citizens’ Association Kučevo Initiative, Kučevo
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: PatrijarhINat
PatrijarhINat is a demonstration of women’s activism using cultural content to address women’s rights, confronting patriarchy as a rooted model of social framework. It is aimed at women of all ages living in the rural, conservative community of the Kučevo municipality in Eastern Serbia. The project will be conducted in the Youth Centre Denon to entice the local audience’s consciousness of activating the community to improve the position of women in society and reducing violence against women.
8. Workers’ Commune Links, Belgrade
- RSD: 347.000
- Project title: KundK
Project K&K is being implemented on the website of Workers’ Commune Links since 2017. The purpose is a critical reading of book production on the former Yugoslav territory, specifically those books that tackle the joint destiny of this region. Likewise, it sheds a light on a cultural-social-political underground existing outside the focus of the mainstream media, while it is important to understanding current affairs. The goal is to build an alternative network for evaluating literary production of the region, made of young critics as well as authors. The end result of these activities would be the affirmation of subjects essential to public debate in our post-traumatic society, which are as such marginalized.
9. Roma Students’ Association, Niš
- RSD: 449.650
- Project title: On the pathway towards equality
On the pathway towards equality is a support program for strengthening the economic and social inclusion of girls from the marginalized populations in the south of Serbia, primarily Roma girls. It is designed for girls aged 16 to 30 from Niš, Babušnica and Grdelica. Through the support to better access to employment, through the support in having basic human rights. Through a holistic and individual approach, through peer social moderation in the community alongside the promotion of successful role models.
10. Non-formal group of activists for available and quality healthcare, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: The guide to surviving healthcare – printing and dissemination
After two years of creating The Guide for Navigating Health Crises and finalizing the digital version of it, the activists/researchers wish to complete the original goal to publish the guide and distribute it to people living in distant areas and having limited access to information. The Guide for Navigating Health Crises connects the fields of healthcare, rights and lived (primarily women’s) experiences. In a simple way, it directs people and presents diverse options during health crises. It is designed for patients as well as for their carers. The guide takes a holistic approach to the crisis situations, observing them in the wider context, pointing out the related issues and offering solutions if they exist, or advocating for different practices where they are needed.
11. Welfare Hub, Novi Sad
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Supporting Ukrainian women in Novi Sad
The project refers to providing support to women coming from war-torn Ukrainian territories, through action research of their problems and needs, and empowerment, informing, and advising through this process. More specifically, the project will encompass direct informing, informing through leaflets, and providing psychosocial and legal support relating to the problems they experience while staying in Novi Sad. Also, the content and the process of informing are intended to be gender-adjusted to meet the need of the popularity mainly consisting of women and children. Likewise, working with these women will encompass education for the prevention of gender-based violence and human trafficking, considering that it is about the category of women at risk.
12. Collective action „A Roof above Head“, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Speak loudly and take an attorney with you
Collective action „A Roof above Head“ widens its action field against unfair evictions. Communal companies and rich creditors are breaking the minimal socially responsible regulations to earn on the poor and discriminated. But they do not expect that the poor and discriminated will have the help of activists and legal support. RWF supports the activists of the CA „A Roof above Head“ in providing legal support for the poor who cannot afford it from their own pockets to set themselves free from unfairly blown-up or non-existent debts.
13. Centre for self-sustainable growth and development Green Age, Gornji Milanovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Balkan Earth Sisters
Through these activities, the activists wish to map the needs of women from the region working around sustainable practices, permaculture and empowering other women, and to, based on these activities, create a curriculum with the subject of transformative leadership that would further be used in the organizational work. The ain activities are working meetings, survey, survey analysis, and creating a curriculum. The end goal is creating a non-formal regional network of women who will conduct joint initiatives locally and regionally.
14. Women at Work, Belgrade
- RSD: 288.700
- Project title: Women at Work Archive
The archive of Women at Work evades the forgetting and dehistorization process of the feminist political and activist experience of a collective which has rooted its work in the principles of solidarity and networking. The gathered documentation brings testimony of feminist strategies in turbulent historical circumstances, as well as potential inspiration for future and current allies. The WAW collective worked on a variety of subjects – economic empowerment of women, IT in activism, combinining arts and activism… And in that way, it has been widening the spaces of feminist struggle as much as alliances in different fields.
15. Women for Peace, Leskovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Safety of Women in Public Spaces
The project „Safety of Women in Public Spaces“ is designed for women from the Leskovac city territory as well as surrounding rural areas. The key activities refer to researching the safety of women in public spaces, and sharing information and experiences through workshops and discussions on the following subjects: Personal Safety, Economical Safety, Community Safety, Health Safety, Political Safety, Environmental Safety. The goal is to, alongside participating women, explore what is general safety to them. Working in groups at workshops and discussions will produce research results and demonstrate the levels of how safe women feel in their environment.
