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In this series, the Urgent Action Funds unpack how they practice their recently launched Sisterhood Feminist Principles of Philanthropy in day-to-day work.

The Urgent Action Funds are a global consortium of feminist funds that provide rapid and responsive support for women and LBTQI+ human rights defenders in moments of need, sustaining feminist activism by supporting the resistance and resilience of frontline defenders.

We share ADD International’s experience to prepare others seeking to achieve similar transformations, and to encourage funders to invest in organisations that are leading system-wide change. We believe we will need many to undertake and support similar shifts in how the funding system operates, if we are to put more funds in the control of movements and indigenous organisations led by those with lived experience of the issues they want to support.