Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Millennium Development Goals
Women and armed conflict
Women in power and decision-making
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| Geographic scope: |
Regional
Africa
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2007 |
| Organizational structure: |
As of 2009, WPP Africa could boast of sub-regional networks in Eastern, Central and West Africa. |
| Number and type of members: |
As of November 2009, the WPP Africa Desk has managed to build partnerships with over 80 women from grassroots organizations in twenty-one countries in the Greater Horn of Africa and Central and West Africa where there is dire need for the empowerment of women to resolve conflict situations in their countries.
The Desk has reached out to Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Cameroon, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Republic of Guinea Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The focus has been on building the capacities of mid-level women in grassroots civil society organizations, to enable them spread the knowledge and skills of active nonviolence in those countries.
Our major strategy to achieve this is through our Training of Trainings (ToTs) in Gender and Nonviolence which were organized at sub regional levels. The first ToT was held in Kenya in 2007, for countries from the Greater Horn of Africa. This was followed in 2008 by another one in Burundi for countries from the Central Africa region. Then there was yet another one ToT in 2009 for Countries in West Africa Sub region.
Bringing together women of the same sub-region also culminated in the setting up of WPP sub regional and country networks.
As of 2009, WPP Africa could boast of sub-regional networks in Eastern, Central and West Africa.
Each of these trainings culminated in the development of country- level nonviolent programs which the Desk supported with seed funds and mentors. The idea of mentorship support for our network members whiles the organized during their country-level follow-up trainings in their home countries is to give them further grounding in the skills they acquired during the trainings. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
A member of several NGO networks including the Women Peace Builders' Community of Practice (WPBCoP) |
| Funding structure: |
Foreign and international grants
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