The African Feminist Forum Position on the New UN Entity for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
Climate change is a threat to sustainable development in Africa. The continent is home to the world's most susceptible populations, because of the sensitivity and fragility of its natural environme…
From 19 to 20 August 2019, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) hosted a two-day convening on Evidence-Based Prevention of Violence Against Women in Accra, Ghana. The space was created …
Equal access to economic opportunities by both women and men contributes to better development outcomes. Globally, women enterprises comprise about a third of all enterprises and contribute signi…
Patients with HIV not only have to deal with the challenges of living with an incurable disease but also with the dilemma of whether or not to disclose their status to their partners, families and …
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 handl…
This toolkit has been designed as a resource document for the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to implement clean energy projects at the household level in conserv…
African culture and custom, as they exist today, are a blend of African customs, imported colonial common and civil law notions, and religious concepts from Christianity, Islam and traditiona…
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a substantial gender divide that encompasses numerous aspects of life. Though this divide is a historic reality for Sub-Saharan Africa, the recent and current process …
This paper is guided by the feminist theoretical perspective which argues that if you want to know about women, you should start with women, for they know.