FEMNET
For Support Of A Gender Lens To Macroeconomic Policy At The Local And Regional Level In Africa
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Amount$850,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/16/2018
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a Pan-African feminist membership network established in 1988 that seeks to inform and mobilize women and girls to participate and influence policies and processes that affect their lives. This grant will support FEMNET to strengthen the capacities of women’s rights activists in Africa to use a feminist analysis to challenge current economic models; develop gendered data and evidence on the impact of macro level economic models on women’s rights; bring an African feminist economic perspective to mainstream economics decision making fora; and build and strengthen a network of feminist activists and economists.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.femnet.org
Address
12 Masaba Road, Lowerhill
P.O. Box 54562-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
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)
for support of the Africa Disrupt CSW68 convening
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.
