Urgent Funding Needs and Challenges of Local Organizations Working on Gender Equality: Two years into the Ukraine invasion

From the early days of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, women-led organizations (WLOs), women’s rights (WROs), and LGBTQIA+ organizations based in and outside of Ukraine have played a central role in the response. At the same time, these organizations continue to face a variety of challenges, particularly in relation to funding and access to resources. This factsheet presents the results of a survey conducted by theUN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia to investigate the funding challenges of WLOs, WROs, and LGBTQIA+ organizations two years into the full-scale invasion. The survey was conducted digitally in early February 2024, and received 78 responses from organizations in 7 countries, namely Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. This document presents and visualizes several key survey results.