Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund

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Main author: Okech, Awino
Other authors: Essof, Shereen
Carlsen, Laura
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institution SOAS, University of London
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language English
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description This article draws on the work of Just Associates (JASS), a feminist movement support organisation that strengthens the leadership and organising capacity of community-based women networks in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica, to transform the structures that perpetuate inequality and violence. We analyse qualitative interviews and surveys drawn from recipients of the JASS mobilisation fund (JMF), an innovative financial crisis support mechanism for feminist movements. We argue that localisation strategies deployed by women’s networks supported by the JMF in response to COVID-19, challenge dominant humanitarian responses that de-centre feminist movements, local knowledge, and expertise. By accounting for local knowledge generated from long histories of movement building, building collective power, and challenging racialised and gendered responses to humanitarian crises, women’s collectives and networks supported through the JMF developed contextually relevant responses that challenge patriarchal structural barriers heightened by COVID-19.
format Journal Article
author Okech, Awino
author_facet Okech, Awino
Essof, Shereen
Carlsen, Laura
authorStr Okech, Awino
author_letter Okech, Awino
author2 Essof, Shereen
Carlsen, Laura
author2Str Essof, Shereen
Carlsen, Laura
title Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund
publisher Springer Nature
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35476/

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