Supporting Groundbreaking Initiatives in Kenya, Liberia, Uganda & Zimbabwe

This report highlights the findings of the project including lessons learnt from the implementation of a dual approach that included grant making and self documentation of women's experiences li…

Review of Joy Kwesiga's Women's Access to Higher Education in Africa: Uganda'…

The book is divided into two sections: Part One describes women's access to formal education in sub-Saharan Africa and Uganda particularly. Here Kwesiga explains theories and concepts underpinning …

Women and Land Resettlement in Zimbabwe

Peasant demand for land is one of the crucial issues determining Zimbabwe's strategy for agrarian transformation. Yet women's demand for land has been ignored. Susie Jacobs traces the development o…

Standpoint: “Murderous women”? Rethinking gender and theories of violence

Given the high rates of gender-based and other forms of violence, it is understandable that substantial local research has focused on violence perpetrated by men (Boonzaier and de la Rey, 2004; Jew…

Report of The Multisector Impact Assessment of Gender Dimensions of the Ebola…

In the face of adversity such as the crisis of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) which has dealt a heavy blow to the Republic and the people of Sierra Leone; and the effects to urgently respond to the …

Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and…

In this paper, my objective is to interrogate gender and allied concepts based on African cultural experiences and epistemologies. The focus here is on the nuclear family system, which is a specif…

Bringing Gender Dimensions Back from Obscurity: Governance, Peace and Securit…

Efforts to address the gender dimensions of governance, peace and security in Africa have registered some success. At the same time, fundamental challenges remain. These challenges continue to rele…

AWDF'S 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence

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Obstacles for Women in Leadership Positions: The Case of South Africa

One of the findings of a 2007 survey done by the South African Commission on Gender Equality is that more than 30 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that women are too emotional to ha…

Reflections on South African's Anti-eviction Campaign

This article focuses on the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) in Cape Town, South Africa, which is part of the larger anti-privatization movement, mobilized by disadvantaged township residents to asse…