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We’re a Pan-African feminist leadership development organisation headquartered in Kampala, and breaking ground throughout the continent.
Kampala, Uganda
Joined February 2012
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Here is a thread of trailblazing African women who were at the forefront of Africa’s liberation struggles
See a name missing, reply to this thread with their name and image
Let's secure African women's legacy!
#AfricaDay
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What is the point of the revolution if we can't stop to smell the flowers, stop and dance to the beat!
Well, before the year ends, we will have an opportunity to revel in feminist joy at the annual Feminist Healing Festival themed around Radical Care!
See🧵on participation!
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For all the women naming their abusers and sharing stories of rape, we believe you! We are ready to offer legal and psychosocial support to survivors who need it. Please DM us.
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🎉🎉🎉
.
@amwaafrika
is proud to announce that our Executive Director,
@musiimee
, has been named among the 100 impactful African women leading change in development across Africa by
@DonorsForAfrica
Click here to view the whole list:
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Gather around East African feminists!💃🏿
The application for the East Africa gathering of the African Feminist Forum 2022 has officially opened.
Click the 🔗 to register.
Registration closes 26th of August.
#AFF2022
#AFFEastAfrica2022
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We are thrilled to share our guide titled, "From an African Feminist Kitchen: Recipes for Radical Care" with you. Through activist stories, we demonstrate the need for a radical approach to care and how to organize within this framework.
#16DaysOfActivism
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The feminist movement in Spain and Latin America stands in solidarity with
#WomensMarchUg
, condemns the senseless murder of Ugandan women & supports the right of women to demand for accountability through peaceful assembly.
#WomensLivesMatterUg
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 📢
AMwA under the auspices of the Voices for Climate Action (VCA) welcomes proposals from African based feminist creative organizations & coalitions to partner in developing innovative advocacy knowledge products.
Apply here:
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We insist on positioning the black woman in all her diversities at the different stages of Africa's story. We must walk down the path of writing resistance & read everything we can lay our hands on!
Which African woman are you currently reading? What is your latest writing?
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We stand in solidarity with our Kenyan siblings as they rise in protest against Femicide.
If you are in Kenya, check the yellow poster to see the places where the marches will take place.
#TotalShutDownKE
#EndFemicideKE
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Our offering for
#16DaysofActivism
is a healing festival for feminist activists. With most of their time confronting oppressive patriarchal systems, activists often need space and time to nurse and heal the soul wounds sustained in the struggle.
#FeministHealingFestival22
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Are you a passionate feminist who wants to apply your skills and intellect to usher in the revolution?
Look through the vacancies on our website to find yourself an internship, a full-time role or a remote role that suits you!
Find all the details here:
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It's the week to send & receive flowers, flowers & some more flowers! 🌹
Do you ever stop & think about who does the work of nurturing & packaging these flowers?
🥁🥁
#PricklyRoses
-a story about the lives of women working on flower farms in Uganda is coming to a cinema near you!
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Are you a young African writer that wants to enhance their activism and legitimacy for African Feminist thought leadership? Apply for our African Feminist Writing Workshop supported
@awdf01
.
Application deadline is 2nd June 2021>>
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Are you an African Feminist Leader who is willing to inspire and guide young, dynamic women into shaping a feminist future, within the context of economic justice? The African Women's Leadership Institute needs you! Apply here:
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The Uganda National Examination Board will give extra 45 minutes to pregnant & breastfeeding candidates during the exams which started yesterday. Over 200 students in candidate classes reported pregnant upon reopening of schools after the lockdown. The numbers could be more
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We are thrilled to announce that our Executive Director received the She Decides Gender Equality award as a Gender Equality star who has promoted women's peace & security and advocated for women's participation in politics, democracy and governance.
Congratulations
@musiimee
🌟
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Akina Mama wa Afrika is excited to host a 3-day annual workshop for partners working under the Voices for Just Climate Action Alliance.
At this meeting we intend to take stock of our progress on various interventions and explore potential synergies, and best practices.
#VCA
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"unsafe abortion... doesn’t affect elite women, it affects poor women living in the informal settlements. So, having laws that give us that power, it’s really critical, because it’s going to save a whole generation from these deaths that occur due to backstreet abortions."
‘Unsafe abortion is a class issue’ explains Kenyan activist Ruth Mumbi
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On Monday we shall be hosting a virtual fireplace to talk about justice and healing for survivors of violence outside of the formal systems
Set a reminder and join our incredible speakers as we unpack what the alternatives look like .
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We commend the women who spoke up against sexual harassment at the start of this year. WE BELIEVE YOU!
We are convening a safe space to set young women who have experienced rape, and similar forms of assault on a path of healing.
#MeTooUg
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📢Calling all radical dreamers in the
#ClimateJustice
space who seek grounding in Afro-Feminist transformative approaches to climate activism.
The African Women's Leadership Institute (
#AWLI
)has something brewing for you. Apply here:
#EcoFeministAWLI23
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#HappeningNow
Akina Mama wa Afrika's webinar on
#FeministGovernance
is now in session!
Meet the speakers who will be steering our re-imagination of governance through a feminist lens.
Follow the thread and hashtag for highlights.
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We are in Nairobi convening the feminist thought leadership retreat with amazing sisters doing feminist organising in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe and South Sudan.
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34 years ago, today, Akina Mama wa Afrika was founded to create space for African Women to organize autonomously, identify issues of concern to them and speak for themselves
Join us celebrate this milestone in strengthening young women's leadership capacities
#UpliftYoungWomen
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In the
@DailyMonitor
today, over 1600 cases of defilement were reported last year. This year, 200 fathers have been reported for defiling their daughters.
Abusive men have been socialized to believe it is natural, it's not! Break the silence! End violence against women & girls
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Today we are part of history as we join partners in the FIRST EVER
#CSW66Africa
to ensure African Women & Girls are heard because they too can contribute towards
#CSW66
in New York!
#AfricaDisruptCSW66
#AfricanFeministStories
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📢Africa is in dire need of bold afro-feminist dreamers, ready to lead movements that will dismantle oppressive systems & usher us all into a just, equal & dignified world.
Is that you? Apply for The African Women's Leadership Institute's programme.
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🎨We believe that Art has always been a critical advocacy tool for activists to inspire transformative change.
If you are an African graphic designer whose work is afroccentric, diverse and liberation focused, join our directory by filling in this form!
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The annual FEMINIST HEALING FESTIVAL is this Friday! We are so excited, arent you? 💃🏽
Themed around ‘Cultivating Radical Care in our Communities’, we cannot wait to see this in practice! 👌🏾✨
#FeministHealingFestival
#AMwA
#RadicalCare
#Community
#Ubuntu
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This week: Paula Mae Weekes was sworn in as the first female president of Trinidad & Tobago
For so long, women's political wings have been clipped as the public sphere was appropriate for only men
Political participation of women must be enhanced to accelerate gender equality
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Do you want to create organisational governance structures that embody intersectional feminist & social justice ideals within your context?
Join Akina Mama wa Afrika in a reflective online webinar on
#FeministGovernance
this January. Register👉:
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The feminist revolution must center joy! 💃🏽
We are absolutely stoked for the FEMINIST HEALING FESTIVAL this Friday!🤗 We can’t wait to reflect, dance and heal.✨
Tag a friend you’d like to see at the festival.🤞🏾
#FeministHealingFestival
#AMwA
#RadicalCare
#Community
#Ubuntu
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Stella Mukasa, our sister and former Chairperson of AMwA's board.
Stella was a Queen-maker, passionate about enhancing the leadership capacities of young women and died fighting for justice. She rests in power!
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We remember
@winniemandela
Vocal, unapologetic, uncompromising, revolutionary!
She paved the way for a new brand of fearless leadership during & after the struggle for independence & now all of Africa will walk in her footsteps, standing for what she stood for!
#AfricaDay
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Today we raise awareness and fight to end female genital mutilation around the world. Young women and girls are impacted by this harmful practice daily and are subject to numerous complications like cysts, infections, and infertility.
#ZeroToleranceDay
#ZeroTolerance4FGM
#EndFGM
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#AMwA
joins
#climatejustice
activists at
#COP28
to present Pan-African feminist approaches to the climate crisis that are just and sustainable. We will call out false climate solutions that mask the root causes of the climate crisis hidden within extractive economic models.
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We are participating at the
@unwomenafrica
Africa Youth Conference sharing ideas and experiences on how to effectively address young women's challenges in Africa
#AfricaYouthConf2018
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📌Day 2 of the
#AWLISrhrUg
.
When you see this face, you know what time it is!
Time to understand feminism, time to unpack concepts like intersectionality, gender& sex, patriarchy, decolonization etc.
It is time to marinate ourselves in feminist theory with Prof. Sylvia Tamale!
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Today, we launch 'Framing Feminist Taxation': Making Taxes Work for Women , a feminist tax guide developed by
@GA4TJ
@woman_kind
and
@amwaafrika
to support tax justice and gender justice advocates to challenge international financial institutions’ role in shaping tax systems.
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The leadership Pre-Sawubona has officially kicked off here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Together with civic and political leaders, we will be discussing the theme; Re-centering Women’s Political Agency and Leadership in Africa. Follow
#LeadershipSawubona
for highlights.
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Starting off the week with 24 African Women Leaders at the African Women's Leadership Institute in Accra, Ghana. We are unpacking leadership, feminism & women's rights.
@awdf01
#UpliftYoungWomen
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Please join us in wishing our Executive Director
@musiimee
a very happy birthday 🎂 🎈 ✨
We wish you many more healthy and glorious years!
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Are you a feminist activist?
Ever thought about enhancing your leadership abilities to advance gender equality & women’s empowerment on the African continent & beyond?
Now is your time!
Apply & join the bespoke African Women's Leadership Institute (AWLI)
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#AWLI
Season is here!🎉
We cannot wait to host 25 gender-focal persons from 18 African nations at The African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) where they will be equipped with feminist transformative approaches in climate governance processes.
#FeministClimateJustice
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Welcome to AMwA's home🏡🎉We were thrilled to usher in the first AMwA ED, Her Excellency
@bisifayemi
, early staff member
@AlgresiaAO
Akwi, Alumni of the African Women's Leadership Institute(AWLI), and Ugandan feminists—into our new abode, now a feminist hub.
#AMwALaunch
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We are deeply disturbed and in mourning over the gruesome murder of Edwin Chiloba, a Fashion Designer and LGBTQIA activist. We share thoughts on what Chiloba's death reveals in our society and what must be done in this statement👉
#Justice4EdwinChiloba
🕊️
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We are proud to be partnering with
@OxfaminUganda
, and
@FemnetProg
in hosting the 3-day regional convening on climate change & gender justice bringing together, young feminists and activists from the Horn, East and Central Africa ahead of
#COP27
#YoungFeministVoices
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We are thrilled that our flagship programme, the African Women's Leadership Institute, is one of the selected 60 transnational
#SolutionsForPeace
to be showcased at the 5th edition of the
#ParisPeaceForum
in France from 11th-12th this November.
#PPF22
@ParisPeaceForum
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What is the rationale behind the economic justice cry, "Tax the Rich?" In what ways would it transform the lives of the most marginalized? Get answers to these questions from the freshly pressed paper titled. "A Pan African Feminist Primer on Wealth Taxes:
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We invite you to submit a letter that shares a story(ies) of your individual lived realities or the lived realities of communities with whom you are working that describe how the policies of the IMF & World Bank have impacted you/ them.
Link to call out:
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We are delighted to convene a multi-stakeholder workshop on feminist economics & tax justice that offers feminist economic approaches as an effective solution to Uganda's macroeconomic problems.
#FeministEconomicJustice
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COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT| We are on the lookout for a Communications Support who will play a supporting role in key aspects of AMwA’s communications work. Details here:
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What a delight it is to convene with the Women's Caucus of the East African Legislative Assembly, members of the EALA Legislative Assembly, feminist civil society organizations and development partners as they appraise the EALA Women’s Caucus 2022 – 2026 Strategic Plan!
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What leadership alternatives exist for 2024? Read this insightful and feminist thought leadership article that delves into alternative leadership approaches to better humanity.
Article link:
#AMwA
#FeministLeadership
#ThoughtLeadership
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Dive into the concept of
#Intersectionality
with Make Way's latest video! 🎬 Discover how this transformative framework can reshape the landscape of SRHR advocacy by centering the most marginalized. Read this post for more information:
#MakeWay
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Calling all creative partners with diverse creative capabilities from audio, visual, and other artistry displays that can portray the lived experiences of African women, girls to respond to this call. Follow this link for more details:
#CreativeCall
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In the spirit of building a just, equal and dignified world for women and girls, we are spending the first 3 days of October enhancing the feminist transformational leadership capacities of 25 women leaders, here at the African Women's Leadership Institute.
#AMwAWpl
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As we commemorate
#IWD
on the theme 'Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress,' AMwA urges a shift from superficial to transformative investments. Explore our feminist propositions for investment in SRHR, Political Leadership, and Economic Justice here👇
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As an organization working towards Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Justice for African women and girls in all their diversities, Akina Mama wa Afrika is excited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Maputo protocol on the rights of women in Africa.
#Maputo20
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We are convening the inaugural Feminist Thought Leadership Retreat, a gathering of some of the Feminists who get the sh*t done, where we shall be exploring the landscape of our activism as Feminists and see in our mind's eye the Feminist futures we want ✊🏿
📷
#UFF2019
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Is it possible to build feminist economies? Don't miss out on today's conversation: Reframing narratives on Wealth taxation: A Pan African Feminists’ vision for building feminist economies by Akina Mama Wa Afrika. (11:00– 12:30)
Register here:
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As part of our advocacy for macroeconomic policies that respond to women’s rights & human rights, we are organising a Feminist Economic & Tax Justice workshop convening CSOs working at the intersection of Gender Equality & Economic Justice.
#FeministEconomicJustice
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Our esteemed African Women's Leadership Institute (AWLI) faculty member, Dr. Sylvia Tamale, receiving the Human Rights Award at
#HRCUg18
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📢Consultancy Call!
AMwA is in search of a consultant who can conduct a study on “Feminist Macroeconomics in Africa” under the auspices of the project titled ‘Fostering Feminist Macroeconomic Policy Alternatives in Africa.’
Find full details here:
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'Clearly, we will not be able to fulfill our continental and global commitments if women do not participate fully and meaningfully' - Sahle Work Zewde
Another female president for Africa!! Congratulations
@SahleWorkZewde
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It is Feminist Theory O'Clock with Prof. Sylvia Tamale! This means that it is time to unpack concepts like power, gender, sex, intersectionality and patriarchy here at the
#AWLIWpl
@ChristineKaaya
@HonNanyondo
@Nambogga
@Evelyne
@nowippress
@KizzaMariah
@berylbabirye
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We promised to take you to the movies and this is it! You can now watch
#PricklyRoses
- our film about the experiences of women on flower farms in Uganda on our YouTube channel. Grab some popcorn and witness what women go through, bringing roses to life!
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We are delighted to be kicking off 2023 with a high-level engagement with the elected women leaders of Kenya. Today's space provides a chance to foster meaningful deliberation and collective reflection on the challenges women face in political and decision-making processes.
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When young women's feminist & transformational leadership capacities are enhanced, a critical mass of feminist leaders is developed
With support from
@OpenSocietyEA
we're strengthening leadership capacities of young women leaders to effectively participate in decision-making
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We are excited to host the Pan Afrikan Leadership Sawubona in Accra, Ghana- homeland of the Pan-African ideology, this July.
Be a part of the Pan Afrikan Leadership Sawubona by submitting a call for abstracts, 100 -150 words, to amwa
@akinamamawaafrika
.org
#LeadershipSwubonaa
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The Sankofa bird, an ancient symbol from the Akan people of Ghana reminds us to hold our past in reverence.
It is in this same spirit of celebrating and learning from our past that we share our
#AMwAReport2022
. Download it here:
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It is always a privilege to have Afro-feminist scholar, author, lawyer and activist Prof. Sylvia Tamale teaching at the African Women's Leadership Institute(
#AWLI
).
Here are the snippets from her lecture on Feminist Theory to 2023,'s cohort of Women political leaders.
🧵
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📢Have you applied for the upcoming Climate Justice Fellowship at The African Women's Leadership Institute (
#AWLI
)?
Have you shared the link with a budding climate activist in your life? Applications are open on this link.
#ClimateJusticeFellowship
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WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY 💃🏽📣
AMwA recognizes this integral part of an individuals reproductive autonomy through our SRHR advocacy. So we join the rest of the world to celebrate
#WCD2023
.
We want to hear from YOU on how you access SRHR through this form:
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Day 2 of the
#PoDYouthSymposium
has kicked off with 2 speeches from MP, Hon.
@AdekeAnna
, the Secretary General of the
@NUP_Ug
-
@DavidLRubongoya
, and a World Cafe at which we are discussing feminism, perceptions, challenges & opportunities around women's political leadership.
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#FeministOpportunities
alert 🔔
AMwA is seeking feminist researchers with experience in
#climatecrisis
#globaleconomy
#climatefinance
and
#economicjustice
.
Read more here: .
#FeministJobs
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🔴Happening Right: We are excited to be moderate and hold a conversation on "Financing a Just Transition for Africa: strategies for adequate, affordable, and sustainable climate finance."
See thread for highights.
#EconomicJustice
#ClimateFinance
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Feminist activist & scholar Prof. Sylvia Tamale spent yesterday teaching about feminist theory at the transformative feminist leadership training for climate justice activists in Zambia.
#ClimateJusticeAWLI2023
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This is how our first Feminist Book Club went! Our first read was the Feminist Africa Journal containing papers on Pan Africanism and Feminism. We were so lucky to engage directly with one of the authors, Professor
@Josephineahiki1
who provided the context to her paper.
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We came as African Feminists. Our voices were heard. We march onward, reinvigorated to practice fearlessness in all the spaces we occupy.
A sneak peek into
#UFF2019
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Social media is awash with opinions on wives' contribution in marriages and whether upon divorce, they are deserving of financial compensation. To ground this discourse in feminist analysis, here is feminist activist Silvia Federici's take on women's labor in the household.
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With a heavy heart, we announce the demise of our feminist sibling,Maria Magezi who joined AMwA in February 2009 as an intern and became a programme officer in October 2009. She left the organization in June 2012.
May she rest in power 💐
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On 14 Feb 2020, we premiered
#PricklyRoses
, a film dramatizing the lives of women working on flower farms in Uganda, to promote decent work conditions & showcase their interaction with issues of social protection, minimum wage & sexual harassment.
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Happy birthday🎂 to our phenomenal Research, Advocacy and Movement Building Manager
@ironladey
. May your birthday be the start of a year filled with good luck, good health and much happiness🎉
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Burnout, chronic sadness & loss of hope are constant experiences of activists working on issues of Violence against Women and Girls.
#AMwA
's 🎁 this
#16DaysOfCActivism
is a healing guide for feminist activists. Grab yourself a copy here 👉
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We are excited to continue our national-level capacity strengthening training on
#IntersectionalSRHR
advocacy 🚀. This time we are in Kenya with the Make Way consortium partners, collaborating partners, and youth panel members.
#SRHR4Me
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Today, we celebrate the 25 young women turned Feminist leaders who were part of our African Women's Leadership Institute (AWLI) last week.
Here's to a strengthened young women's network that's here to challenge the patriarchy!
#UpliftYoungWomen
#WCW
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These phenomenal Pan-African Feminist Leaders
@musiimee
,
@JeanKemitare
,
@kachambwa
and
@DinahRwiza
will be discussing Feminist Transformational Leadership during
#COVID19
this Friday 4pm-5pm EAT.
Don't forget to join the conversation!!
#DignifiedResponse
#COVID19Leadership
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It is a delight to host AMwA's first Executive Director, Her Excellency Bisi Adeleye Fayemi (
@bisiafayemi
), today at the High-Level Women Leaders Round Table Conversation on "Recentering Women's Political Agency and Leadership in Africa."
#FeministLeadership
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Will you attend the 31st International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in Cape Town?
Don't miss out on AMwA &
@NawiAfrica
's well curated
#EconomicJustice
space themed "Inspiring a Pan African Feminist Vision for Economic Justice " Register👉
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Are you an SRHR activist in Uganda or a feminist passionate about SRHR?
This user-friendly brief on Uganda's legal and policy framework around SRHR, as seen through an intersectional feminist lens, could transform your work Get it here.👉
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We are looking for a Finance & Administration Associate who will support daily transactions, including handling of invoices, expenses, receivables, payables as well as offer day to day administrative support to the team. Sounds good? Apply here:
#AMwAJobs
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It's
#WorldSexualHealthDay
! This year, we're shining a spotlight on consent as the cornerstone of healthy, fulfilling relationships. Teaming up with
#MakeWay
, we've crafted an enlightening video, exploring consent through the lens of power. Join the conversation!
#WSHD23
@Wemos
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About last week's emotional premiere of
#PricklyRoses
where the plight of women working on flower farms was uncovered resulting in commitments to amplify the experiences of women working on flower farms and pushing for laws and policies that work for women at the workplace.
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We are excited that Akina Mama wa Afrika is participating in the conversation on the impact of extractives in Africa and pathways to just green energy transition at the Alternative Mining Indaba 2023 (AMI) happening now in Cape Town, South Africa.
@AltMiningIndaba
#AMI2023
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📌 OPPORTUNITY
🌟Open ONLY to alumnae of
@amwaafrika
's African Women’s Leadership Institute
#AWLI
With support from
@awdf01
, we're inviting applications from young women who are interested in building their capacity in
#SRHR
advocacy.
#UpliftYoungWomen
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