World Humanitarian Day: reflections on the Jo Cox Memorial Grants and the legacies they leave behind – a new podcast episode

Categories: Cause days, Jo Cox Memorial Fund, Podcast, Project impact, Women

18 August 2022

To mark World Humanitarian Day this year, we were joined by Su Moore, CEO of the Jo Cox Foundation to talk about Jo Cox and The Jo Cox Memorial Grants.

This is a picture of Jo, taken when visiting Gaza with Oxfam International in 2006

Listen in to this special episode on The Learning Post podcast today to

Learn more behind the reasons for focusing the grants on projects that would help prevent identity-based violence and support women’s empowerment
Hear more about the reach that the funding has had and
Understand why the impact from these projects are a fitting legacy for Jo.

Group discuss domestic violence. Photo credit Mifumi — Jo Cox Memorial Grant projects: MIFUMI Movement Builders discuss domestic violence and gender based violence in Tororo, Uganda; Suna is an elected Dalit Women’s Member from Bajura District, Nepal and is empowered to lead in her community; a community awareness meeting taking place in Karusandara, Uganda.

Suna B.K, an elected Dalit Women’s Member from Bajura District. Photo credit: Womankind Worldwide — Jo Cox Memorial Grant projects: MIFUMI Movement Builders discuss domestic violence and gender based violence in Tororo, Uganda; Suna is an elected Dalit Women’s Member from Bajura District, Nepal and is empowered to lead in her community; a community awareness meeting taking place in Karusandara, Uganda.

Extract from podcast

“…Those themes were chosen because they were issues that were so important to Jo. And one of the key things about these grants when it was decided that we would go ahead with them, was that we wanted to authentically tell the story of Jo’s interests and values.”
Su Moore, CEO of the Jo Cox Foundation

Find out more about the Jo Cox Memorial Grants

Su Moore has written a blog about Jo and the grants which is available to read on the foundation’s website.

Additional podcast episodes are also available:

Publications and features:

The new framework on women’s empowerment
Impact and reflections, five years on from Jo’s murder
Case study: Community engagement is reducing gender-based violence in Uganda through the work of rights agency, MIFUMI
Case study: Minority Rights Group networks for peace in Northern Kenya
Case study: Economic empowerment for women is key for meaningful leadership and participation in politics – Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)
Case study: The role of women in peace processes leads to efficient and sustainable results – Internews Europe
Case study: Teaching vulnerable young women to believe in themselves gives them the confidence to succeed – Zimbabwe Educational Trust.

Photo credits: Left to right: Promote Mifumi, Womankind Worldwide and Minority Rights Group

For further information about the work of The Jo Cox Foundation, visit their website on jocoxfoundation.org.