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Female Genital Mutilation Fact Sheet
A fact sheet by the World Health Organization about female genital mutilation.
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Women's Digital Knowledge Library
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Women’s Microfinance Initiative
WMI believes that increasing financial inclusion and teaching financial literacy empowers poor women to take control of their livelihoods and their lives.
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Women and the informal economy in urban Africa
In this open-access book, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women’s movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.
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African Women in Governance
African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder’s Participation presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigate the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality.
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Women and Power in Africa
This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives.
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Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War
This open access book helps correct an egregious gender bias in contemporary accounts of a major episode in 20th-century African decolonization.
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Gender Inequality in the House of God: Comparing Islam and Traditional Religions in Yorubaland and Lome in West Africa
Paper researching gender politics in religions in Western Africa.
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Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa Network
SIHA aims to strengthen the capacities of women’s rights organizations and address women’s subordination and violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa.
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Not as simple as ABC: Christian fundamentalisms and HIV and AIDS responses in Africa
This study explores the agendas, strategies and influence of Christian fundamentalist actors in HIV and AIDS responses in the African region.
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Girls’ Education South Sudan
Programme that aims to transform a generation of South Sudanese girls by increasing access to quality education.
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A Price Too High to Bear: The Costs of Maternal Mortality to Families and Communities
This study documents the costs of maternal mortality to households in poor remote communities and explores the impact of these costs on family well-being.
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Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda
Report presents the first attempt to quantify the incidence of abortion in Rwanda, by using a methodology that builds on the only accessible data on the subject—the number of women who seek care at health facilities for abortion related complications.
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Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU)
A national, voluntary, non-discriminatory and not-for-profit, non-government organisation, affiliated to the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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Women in Agriculture: An Assessment of the Current State of Affairs in Africa
This study examines the state of women in African agriculture, focusing on how policy and institutional considerations frame the conditions of access to agricultural resources.
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Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa
AGE Africa enables disadvantaged, academically talented young women to finish secondary school and to pursue opportunities beyond high school.
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The State of the World’s Midwifery: Analysis of the Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health Workforce in East & Southern Africa
Evidence base for challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals relating to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health.
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WoMin
Researches and publicizes the impacts of extractives on women while campaigning for structural changes.
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African Feminist Forum
The African Feminist Forum (AFF) regional gathering brings together African feminist activists to discuss strategy, refine approaches and develop stronger networks to advance women’s rights in Africa.
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Iranti
Media advocacy organization defending the rights of Lesbians, Transgender and Intersex persons in Africa.
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Team Kenya
Their mission is to involve entire communities in gender equality, so that girls in rural Kenya can create their own bright futures.
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Team Kenya
Involving communities in gender equality, so that girls in rural Kenya can create their own bright futures.
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African Feminist Initiative (AFI)
A global and transnational platform where feminist scholars and activists engage in interdisciplinary collaborative knowledge production about Africa and its diaspora.
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African Feminism (AF)
A pan-African feminist digital platform and collaborative writing project.
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AWA : la revue de la femme noire
This website hosts a digitised version of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines: AWA: la revue de la femme noire. AWA was an independent magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a network of African women between 1964 and 1973. The magazine features poems, short stories, political reportage, and essays, alongside recipes, fashion, home-furnishings, and readers’ letters pages. It presents women’s lives as citizens, mothers, sisters, workers, and consumers against the global backdrop of Cold War politics, new formulations of Afro-modernity, and demands for women’s rights.
