Background
The Women's Fund of the South (FMS) is a foundation that  mobilizes financial and technical resources  to promote the  rights of women and LGBTI persons in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. 

Currently, it also implements a Program of regional scope in 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (2016-2020).

The FMS was founded on October 12, 2007 by six recognized feminists from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in response to the lack of resources available to women's organizations, mostly grassroots women, that promote women's human rights.

Consequently, the FMS set out to mobilize resources from various donors, both national and international, to reach small organizations and groups of women with little access to financing, but with innovative proposals to advance towards equality and full inclusion. social of women.

Its creation was part of the struggle of the women's and feminist movement at regional and international level, which had already reached the formation of other funds in various parts of the world. The mobilization of resources and the influence on philanthropy to support initiatives to defend women's rights in the region is the main thrust of the current FMS mandate.

Mission
Mobilize financial and technical resources to strengthen the organizational capacities of groups and organizations of women and LGBTI persons that are at a greater socio-economic, political-cultural, geographic and environmental disadvantage and that aim to promote gender equality and empowerment Women's.

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Contribute to societies where women and LGBTI people have full rights, we are empowered to defend them and we have equal access to opportunities to develop our full potential.

Priority areas
The FMS promotes the rights of women and LGBTI people, the development of capacities of groups and organizations that work to achieve transformative results towards gender equality and empowerment, from a human rights-based approach, gender perspective, intersectionality and Diversity and multiculturalism approach, in the following priority areas:

• Political participation
• Economic autonomy
• Eradication of violence and discrimination
• Socio-environmental justice
• Different identities and sexualities

What does the Women's Fund of the South do?

• Mobilizes international and local resources.
• Finances groups of women located in remote and socioeconomically marginalized areas (grantmaking).
• Promotes the development of the organizational and advocacy capacities of the partner groups.
• Promotes Networks and Partnerships to increase opportunities for impact.
• Support women in amplifying their voices and demands.

As it does?

• The FMS mobilizes funds that come from individual or collective donors, local or international.
• The allocation of funds to women's groups takes place within the framework of thematic programs that help strengthen their institutional development, specify their projects and identify their needs and prioritize them.
• The FMS develops strategies for linking and communicating with individuals and referring organizations located in different geographical areas.
• The FMS organizes annual face-to-face meetings and trainings with the groups of women it supports and with other women activists, in order to strengthen the organizations and generate networks and alliances.