GATJ Tax And Gender Working Group Launches Framing Feminist Taxation vol.2
Download the Guide in English, French, or Spanish The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ)’s Tax and Gender Working Group, together with ActionAid International, Akina Mama wa Afrika and Womankind Worldwide, launched today Framing Feminist Taxation vol. 2: Issues and tools for analysis and capacity building – a case study of Uganda. The new volume […]
When We Say SRHR Is Essential, This Is What We Mean!
Today May 28th on the international day of action for women’s health, people all over the globe are advocating for the recognition of women’s and girls’ right to health in particular their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SRHR is an essential part of universal health coverage, which is more than the absence of disease […]
Nothing without Us: Exploring Opportunities to Advance Women and Youth’s Political Leadership in Kenya’s 2022 Elections
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), Mzalendo Trust, and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducted a Political Economy Analysis (PEA) of women, youth, and the public participation in Kenya. Drawing from the findings of the PEA, this policy brief focuses on the drivers and challenges […]
Feminism as Practice-A Reflection
Three years spent at arm’s length due to a global pandemic came to a wonderful end at the 9th convention of the Uganda Feminist Forum. Somewhere in Namanve on the outskirts of Kampala, a room was alive with shared joys, struggles and experiences of practicing feminism in Uganda, and largely, Africa. Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) […]
Global South perspectives on “Why the climate crisis is a feminist issue”
Existing climate governance does not adequately support inclusivity. On the contrary, as the climate crisis worsens, civic space is shrinking. The voices of local people, particularly women are rarely heard when climate decisions are being made, with women, youth, indigenous people, and other marginalized groups being the most noticeably absent – and yet it is […]
FEMINIST AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP 2021 – YOUNG WOMEN LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE JUSTICE.
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), under the auspices of the Voices for Just Climate Action Programme convened a feminist leadership development fellowship as part of her flagship programme, the African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI). The fellowship sought to raise awareness of a feminist intersectional approach to climate action to develop a critical mass of feminist […]
Akina Mama wa Afrika Annual Report 2020
Greetings from Akina Mama wa Afrika! While the global pandemic gripped our world and changed everything we thought we knew about life, work and organising, we’ve come out of it a more patient and formidable organisation. The team at Akina Mama wa Afrika is pleased to share with you; our partners, constituencies, donors and beneficiaries, […]
Annual Report 2020
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Gender, Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy and Practice
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‘Framing Feminist Taxation’: Making Taxes Work for Women
New publication provides guidance and recommendations for policy-making and advocacy that can influence and change our current economic and tax systems for a feminist future. Women and girls are disproportionately hurt by current global economic and taxation systems. Even though challenges may differ from country to country, everywhere women tend to proportionately pay more taxes […]
‘Framing Feminist Taxation’: Making Taxes Work for Women
To support tax justice and gender justice advocates to challenge international financial institutions’ role in shaping tax systems, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice’s (GATJ) Tax and Gender Working Group, Womankind Worldwide and Akina Mama wa Afrika developed ‘Framing Feminist Taxation’. Presenting a feminist intersectional and human rights-based approach to fiscal policies, the guide brings […]
From the Margins to the Centre: Discourses on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Uganda
‘From the Margins to the Centre: Discourses on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Uganda’, is an outcome of an effort by AMwA and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Uganda to document the different facets of the pandemic and its numerous impacts on different areas of life for women. It is a collection of essays, […]
Keep Your Hands Off My Thighs, Ssebo
Keep Your Hands Off My Thighs, Ssebo is a compilation of fictionalized accounts of women who have experienced abuse at the workplace, intended to provide a basic and simplified understanding and context of sexual harassment at places of work from a feminist perspective. These stories of fear, shame, blame, and silence depict how the impunity […]
Rethink! Conversation Series
With support from Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), under the auspices of The Jas Programme, Akina Mama wa Afrika is convening a reflection platform for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) actors to critically reflect on current development theory and practice from a feminist perspective. This Re-think: Conversation series: Choice, Rights and Reproductive Freedom aims […]
Action Research On Women’s Leadership And Participation In Political Processes In Uganda
Introduction Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is a Pan-African Feminist Leadership Development Organization with headquarters in Kampala, Uganda. It was founded in 1985 by African women immigrants living in the United Kingdom to create space for African women to organize autonomously, network with each other, share skills and expertise, identify issues of concern and speak […]
“The African Women’s Leadership Institute has boosted my morale and indulgence to self.”
Joining the Feminist and Transformational Leadership Fellowship was a dream come true. I have always wanted to be part of the African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) to improve my feminist leadership and access more opportunities. I am extremely pleased that Akina Mama wa Afrika made this possible. For a transgender woman to be accepted to […]
The Gendered Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs)
This paper provides an anthology of the views and understandings of Illicit Financial Flows, the national, regional, international contexts in which they exist and the gendered impacts of all these factors. The paper contends that because the economy is a gendered construct, phenomena like IFFs that threaten socio-economic development cannot be gender neutral and are […]
AMwA’s Virtual Advocacy Training on SRHR: Participant and Faculty Profiles
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Experiences of Sexual Harassment Against Women in the World of Work in Uganda
Discourse on sexual harassment has captured the public imagination, both globally, regionally and nationally. The #MeToo Movement which was started by Tarana Burke in the United States and gained worldwide prominence in 2017 after a string of high level male executives were accused of sexual harassment is largely credited for driving this discourse and reckoning. […]
Annual Report 2019
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