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. 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.

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 works to mobilize, inform, influence, and amplify the voices of African women and girls for gender equality across five interlinking domains of change: economic justice, climate justice, transformative leadership, sexual reproductive health and rights, and ending of violence against women and girls. This organizational effectiveness grant will support an organizational capacity assessment and leadership coaching for FEMNET’s senior management team. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

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.