FEMNET

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan-African feminist network at the forefront of informing and mobilizing African women to participate in and influence policies and processes affecting their lives. FEMNET’s mission is to mobilize African women for the achievement of gender equality and the realization of women’s and girls’ rights at all levels, working to interface community and national level women’s human rights processes with global level processes through a regional platform. FEMNET’s work is prioritized around five thematic areas: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Justice; Ending Violence Against Women and Girls; Climate Justice and Natural Resources Governance; Transformative Women Leadership; and Economic Justice and Rights. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan-African feminist network at the forefront of informing and mobilizing African women to participate in and influence policies and processes affecting their lives. This grant supported FEMNET’s sponsorship of the Africa Disrupt Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) — CSW68 in this case — in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Africa Disrupt CSW was created to respond to the shrinking space for feminist and civil society engagement at the annual CSW sessions in New York.