African women from all walks of life have made substantive contributions to the preparation of the post-2015 development agenda. A lot remains to be done, however, and we want to make sure to go fo…
Accountability is a vital human rights principle to address preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in Uganda. The continuous use of ‘accountability’ as a term without elaborating on it …
The AWDF believes in adhering to generally acceptable principles and practices for effective grant making.
Four feminists from different parts of the continent converse, electronically, about their own beauty practices: Aleya Kassam (33, Kenya); Fatma Emam (33, Egypt); Valérie Bah (29, Benin and Haiti)…
Full disclosure: I had a serious crush on King and Malcolm X back in the day. I was infatuated by their Black radical voice and political courage. As a high school teen in a predominantly white and…
"The Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) would like to highlight key concerns regarding the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and is expected to be finally adopted during the T…
We welcome our government's commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. The action agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the African Minis…
Background. Elevated arsenic and trace metal contamination of the terrestrial food chain represents one of the most significant environmental risk exposures for human populations in developing coun…
Les femmes representent une grande partie de la base des ressources humaines de chaque nation. Reunies, elles constituent un vivier de talents au service du developpement de leur communaute et des …
As an urban feminist geographer with a research interest in African cities, I was initially pleased when the web series, An African City, debuted in 2014. The series was released on YouTube and als…