Akina Mama wa Afrika
For General Operating Support
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Amount$550,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/15/2022
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is a feminist pan-African organization building feminist leadership and collective power to deconstruct intersectional systems of oppression and advance gender justice. Under its new strategic plan, AMwA aims to scale up feminist activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa to secure better outcomes for women, girls, and gender-expansive persons. AMwA aims to deepen partnerships in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, and Ethiopia and at the regional and global level to mobilize a critical and growing mass of feminist advocates that actively supports intersectional SRHR activism. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.akinamamawaafrika.org
Address
Plot 222, Mama Africa Close, Off Kiwatule Road, Ntinda Kigoowa
P.O Box 24130, Kampala, Uganda
Grants to this Grantee
for a project to foster feminist macroeconomic policies in Africa
Akina Mama wa Afrika is a feminist pan-African leadership development organization working on core thematic issues including women’s political leadership, women’s economic justice and climate action, and sexual reproductive health and rights, with extensive experience in feminist leadership development, feminist research and knowledge building, and feminist advocacy and movement building. This grant will support Akina Mama wa Afrika to contribute to building a movement of feminist macroeconomic policy advocates to collectively create policy alternatives. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is a feminist pan-African organization building feminist leadership and collective power to deconstruct intersectional systems of oppression and advance gender justice. Under its new strategic plan, AMwA aims to scale up feminist activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa to secure better outcomes for women, girls, and gender-expansive persons. AMwA aims to deepen partnerships in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, and Ethiopia and at the regional and global level to mobilize a critical and growing mass of feminist advocates that actively supports intersectional SRHR activism. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
