Akina Mama wa Afrika

This grant will support Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) to strengthen its organizational health, safety, and security infrastructure as an essential investment given the contextual risks and challenges to gender justice and feminist groups in the African region. Specifically, the funding will allow AMwA to establish urgent mitigation measures to protect staff’s and partners' safety and security and the organization’s operations and programming. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)

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)

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)