Let's Unpack the Maputo Protocol...
What is the Maputo Protocol?
What does the Maputo Protocol say about...
Climate and Sustainability
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Where can I learn more and how can I get engaged in the Maputo Protocol & Climate and Sustainability rights?
- Connect with SOAWR member organisation FEMNET & their annual African Feminist Academy for Climate Justice. FEMNET is also a member of the African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) Project whose goal is a powerful and lasting climate action footprint.
- Join the Power to Voices digital platform, empowering social justice advocates across Africa. This secure alternative to mainstream social media shields activists from censorship, fostering networking, campaign support, and knowledge sharing; download the Android or Apple app.
- Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO): WEDO collaborates with African organisations to integrate gender into climate policy and practices. You can join their Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice (“Action Nexus”) which aims to advance a comprehensive feminist agenda at the nexus of climate and economic justice towards regenerative economies that centre care for people and planet.
- Become a member of Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA): PACJA champions climate justice across the continent and has initiatives aimed at mainstreaming gender in climate advocacy.
- African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC): AYICC engages young people to link climate change and poverty reduction targets, especially in terms of utilising appropriate and ecologically viable strategies.
- GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice: An international network with active African chapters, working on gender and climate issues by engaging in policy, research, and grassroots mobilisation.
- WoMin African Alliance is Pan African ecofeminist alliance which works alongside organisations of women, peasants, and communities impacted by extractive developments. They make visible and publicise the impacts of extractivism on peasant and working-class African women and support women’s organising, movement-building and solidarity.
- Follow and engage on social media via #FeministClimateJustice
Economic Rights
Where can I learn more and how can I get engaged in the Maputo Protocol & Women’s Economic Rights?
- SOAWR member Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) challenges neoliberal economic models and addresses the precarious and yet often ignored connections between the climate crisis and economic and gender justice.
- SOAWR member the Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) seek to strengthen women and girls’ position as key economic actors through greater and equal access and control over economic resources, opportunities and assets.
- Africa Youth Trust (AYT) – AYT focuses on advocating for youth economic rights, including creating opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, and access to finance. They promote youth-led economic policies and seek to bridge the gender gap in economic participation.
- The Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (Nawi Collective) is a Pan-African Feminist initiative of feminist activists and organisations that are challenging the current macro-level economic policy of governments, reframing gender equality away from building the capacity of individual women, towards challenging the systems and structures that perpetuate this inequality. Their Djali Podcast interrogates how to re-imagine a future that is inclusive and just using a Pan African feminist approach.
- The Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) challenges harmful tax policies and practices that on one hand facilitate illicit resource outflows and on the other hand favour the wealthy while aggravating and perpetuating inequality.
- Learn more about the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the upcoming Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade Africa via Trade Unions and Trade in Africa and Nawi Fem’s
Political Participation
Where can I learn more and how can I get engaged in the Maputo Protocol & Political Participation?
The Women in Political Participation (WPP) project is a Pan-African gender project on the different facets of Women and Politics in Africa, involving a number of SOAWR’s member organisations. Its aim is to contribute to advancing the goal of gender equality in politics and governance, in line with the Maputo Protocol; various associated sub-regional protocols and standards, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
SOAWR member Make Every Woman Count (MEWC) monitors every election around Africa and publishes analysis which focuses on women’s political participation.
- WILDAF (Women in Law and Development in Africa) focuses on enhancing women’s participation in political and decision-making spaces in West Africa through legal empowerment, policy advocacy, and political training.
The African Women Leaders Network (AWLN), initiated by the African Union Commission, is a vibrant network of accomplished women leaders with outstanding trails in the political, business, academia, science, community and general leadership arenas, as well as a pool of accomplished, talented, innovative young leaders and professionals, with notable achievements, striving to reach their leadership potential and be impactful. Through a social network, AWLN Mentorship envisions to foster an exchange of intergenerational views, skills and knowledge amongst network members and beyond to. Find out more on how you can either become an AWLN Mentor or Mentee by emailing [email protected]
Women, Peace & Security
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Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)
Where can I learn more and how can I get engaged in the Maputo Protocol & SRHR?
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Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
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Harmful Practices
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Equality under the Law
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Women with Disabilities
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