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African Women's Development & Communication Network (FEMNET)

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:

Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Human rights of women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Geographic scope: Regional
  • Africa
  • Country of activity:
  • Kenya
  • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1996
    Organizational structure: Since inception in 1988, FEMNET has played a leading role in building the women’s movement in Africa and ensuring that women and girls’ voices are amplified, and their needs, priorities, and aspirations are prioritized in key policy dialogues and outcomes that have direct and indirect impact on their lives. FEMNET has established her niche as a nucleus serving to mobilize African women and girls to influence, lobby and advocate for the domestication and implementation of commitments made by African governments to the advancement of gender equality and realization of women’s rights. Such commitments include the global and continental declarations on gender equality and women’s rights that African governments are signatories to such as the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women and Girls (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), ICPD Programme of Action, and Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development (SDGs) at the global level and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) at the regional level.
    Number and type of members: FEMNET is a Regional Pan-African Network of women's rights organizations. Currently, FEMNET has over 600 members (individual and organizational) in 46 African countries.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: A member of the UN Women's Major Groups, NGO CSW/Africa, Solidarity for African Women's Rights.
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
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