FCDO Hands Feminist Group More Than £20 Million to ‘Abolish Hetero-Patriarchal Capitalist World Order’ – Guido Fawkes

EXC: FCDO Hands Feminist Group More Than £20 Million to ‘Abolish Hetero-Patriarchal Capitalist World Order’

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The FCDO has handed £20 million to an organisation which wants to abolish “racial hierarchies within the hetero-patriarchal and capitalist world order.” Nice to see where our remaining development spending is going…

Guido’s FoI unit has established that since January 2023 the FCDO has handed £20,788,284 to the Equality Fund, an organisation which says it is “ushering in an era of abundance for women, girls, and trans people leading the charge on solutions to our most urgent social and political challenges.” The fund supports “human rights and women’s rights movements via our grantmaking across the Global South” – handing out UK taxpayer cash. The Tories initially committed the funding – Labour has continued it to the tune of £9,123,952 since it came to power…

The organisation, which features UK development fund branding on its website, says it “can disrupt the colonial and patriarchal practices” and “centre the voices of those living at the edges of change, shifting power and disrupting colonial north-south patterns.” It deploys grants and makes investments. On the latter point the Fund boasts that “our private market investments help to maximize our goals of shifting power by investing in women-led and women-focused funds, products, businesses, and services (inclusive of girl-led and trans-led actors)”…

The organisation spends a lot of time ruminating on “decolonisation” as a “political project” which includes:

• “Abolishing racial hierarchies within the hetero-patriarchal and capitalist world order;
• Dismantling the geopolitics of knowledge production; and
• Rehumanizing our relationships with others and nature (including the repatriation of Indigenous lands).”

The FCDO sent the Equality Fund an extra £149,000 in March on top of the £1 million it got in February and £3.7 million it got in January. Nice for some…