Dear colleague,
After months of work with our team, we are launching the RFLD African Women in Leadership Tracker – an institutional platform that brings together verified data, Afrofeminist analysis and continental advocacy infrastructure in one place.
It is built for three communities : donors seeking investment-grade evidence, civil society organisations looking for comparative continental infrastructure, and journalists needing press-ready statistics with traceable sources.
What you will find
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Dashboard – Continental snapshot, regional comparisons, top performers and critical gaps
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37 Country profiles – analytical briefs
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Gender analytics – Beijing+30 framework, quota mechanisms, pipeline gaps, women in informal economies
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Maputo Protocol tracker
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Afrofeminist Charter – 10 principles, movement genealogy, and intellectual genealogies
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Theory of Change
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Outcome indicators with 2025 baselines and 2030 targets, partnership ecosystem
Explore the African Women in Leadership platform tracker here →
RFLD currently serves as Co-Chair of the SEA-T Programme Advisory Council — providing strategic guidance to the SEA-T programme to ensure its direction, priorities, and resources are meaningfully aligned with the visions of Afro-feminist civil society. As Co-Chair, RFLD provides strategic guidance to the SEA-T programme — ensuring its direction, priorities, and resources are anchored in the lived realities and political visions of Afro-feminist civil society across the continent.
The Society · Equality · Africa · Transformation (SEA-T) Programme is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. RFLD’s Co-Chair role places francophone African feminist leadership at the centre of one of Europe’s most significant African gender-equality investments.
DISCOVER BELOW OUR WORK AND IMPACT
RFLD West African Francophone Feminist Fund: https://rflgd.org/waff-fund/
RFLD Africa Portfolio Fund: https://rflgd.org/africa-grant-portfolio/
Gender Equality and SHRH : https://rflgd.org/plaidoyer-politique/
Climate Justice: https://rflgd.org/climate-justice/
Ending Harmful practices: https://rflgd.org/pratiques-nefastes/
Participatory governance : https://rflgd.org/gouvernance-participative/
Human Rights Protection: https://rflgd.org/protection-des-droits-humains/
Civic Space and Democracy : https://rflgd.org/espace-civique-droits-de-lhomme/
Give through your Donor Advised Fund: https://rflgd.org/give-through-your-daf/
Founded in 2013 with offices across Senegal, Ghana, Benin, and The Gambia, RFLD is a a leading francophone African feminist network combining legislative advocacy, community organising, re-granting, and open-data tools to advance women’s rights, SRHR, civic space, and climate justice across 35+ African countries.
http://www.rflgd.org
