Press Release
New research from the MOTERIS project, covering 15 EU Member States, reveals that women’s rights organisations (WROs) across Europe are facing growing funding insecurity, political conditions on received resources, and rising demand with fewer resources and heavy reliance on unpaid work.
Researchers in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden identified funding insecurity as the most consistent challenge. Financing remains predominantly short-term and project-based, providing little to no core operational support.
The research also highlights political conditioning of funding, shifts towards “gender-neutral” priorities, and the impact of merged equality and diversity frameworks on women-only services and sex-disaggregated data. Marginalised women, including migrant and Roma women, are among those most affected.
As negotiations on the MFF 2028–2034 advance, more than 200 women’s rights organisations and platforms have called for visible and dedicated funding for women’s rights, gender equality, and combating violence against women.
On 29 September 2026, WROs gathered outside the European Parliament at Place du Luxembourg, followed by an accountability event inside the European Parliament hosted by MEP Klára Dobrev (S&D).
Read the MOTERIS Research Brief
For the full research methodology, country-level evidence, and key findings across the 15 EU Member States, read the complete MOTERIS Research Brief below.