When the Nordic Council of Ministers established the Nordic Gender Equality Fund in June 2013, the aim was to stimulate Nordic cooperation in the area of gender equality. Since then, the Fund has granted funding to NGOs, public authorities, researchers and networks within the context of 79 different projects. In this publication, we present the experiences, insights and effects of these first ten years of the Fund.
In these projects, organisations from at least three different Nordic countries or the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Aaland Islands have cooperated to promote gender equality in the Nordic countries. Some also include cooperation with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Funding partnerships have resulted in everything from proposals for legislation and educational tools to conferences and policy documents.
This publication gives an insight into ten of these partnerships, one for each year in the history of the Fund, and the concrete results they have generated. In brief reports and interviews, project participants share their experiences, knowledge and insights from their efforts to promote gender equality. They reflect on the benefits of Nordic cooperation and how we can meet the challenges identified in the Nordic cooperation programme for gender equality. They also give us examples of how the perspectives of children and young people can be integrated into work to promote gender equality, and contribute to the achievement of global sustainability goals.
Thanks to the cooperation projects financed through the Gender Equality Fund, knowledge in the area has grown and spread across Nordic borders. By sharing these projects they will be able to benefit more people and inspire new and exciting Nordic cooperation projects in the future.
Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK) administer the Fund’s calls, evaluations and follow-up. NIKK is located at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg and since 2020 also administers the Nordic LGBTI Fund.