RFLD Academy
Fifteen short courses built by RFLD, a pan-African network of 1,143 member organisations in more than 35 countries. Create a free account, follow the lessons at your own pace, pass the final quiz and receive your certificate automatically.
How it works
One free account gives you access to every course and saves your progress.
Choose a course and click "Enrol". You can follow several courses at once.
Each course has six short lessons, mostly text, so they work on a slow connection.
Your certificate is issued automatically once all lessons are done and the quiz is passed.
Course catalogue
Complete every course of a school to receive a school certificate as well.
The African and international treaties that protect women, and the bodies that enforce them.
A free course in three modules: what the Maputo Protocol guarantees, who monitors its implementation and how to use it in your advocacy. RFLD certificate at the end.
Start the courseUnderstand the CEDAW Convention, the standards of an effective law against violence against women and how the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) works, so you can advocate more…
Start the courseDiscover the African Union Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls, adopted in 2025, and learn how to use it to advocate, monitor its implementation and protect survivors.
Start the courseUnderstand UN Security Council Resolution 1325, its four pillars and the related resolutions, then learn how to use it in your advocacy in West Africa.
Start the courseDesign a campaign, defend civic space and organise women from the grassroots to the global level.
Learn how to design an advocacy campaign, from defining the problem to the action plan. A practical course from the RFLD Francophone Academy for women's rights defenders.
Start the courseUnderstand civic space, protect women human rights defenders and carry out digital advocacy safely. A practical course designed by RFLD for activists and NGO teams.
Start the courseLearn how to carry out effective advocacy for women's rights in Africa, from land to school, with tools ready to use in the field.
Start the courseDiscover the history of feminist movements in Francophone Africa, the legal texts that protect women's rights and the strategies for taking a local struggle all the way to international bodies.
Start the courseProtect yourself, document violations and activate protection mechanisms for women defenders.
Know your rights as a defender, the African and international protection mechanisms, and the safety habits that help in Francophone West Africa.
Start the courseLead with equality values and build strong, accountable organisations.
A certificate course to develop your leadership, understand the foundations of Afrofeminism and build solidarity networks among women.
Start the courseA certificate course to strengthen your organisation's governance: internal policies, human resources, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and an Afrofeminist approach.
Start the courseDiscover the internal policies that make a civil society organisation credible and sustainable: strategic plan, fundraising, finance, risk, integrity and the protection of people.
Start the courseUnderstand organisational social responsibility and learn how to engage your NGO in a concrete approach, drawing on the ISO 26000 standard.
Start the courseWomen's economic autonomy and women's responses to the climate crisis.
Discover, indicator by indicator, the laws that hold back or support women's economic autonomy in eight Francophone West African countries, based on the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law…
Start the courseUnderstand how the climate crisis, economic inequalities and social injustices reinforce one another in French-speaking West Africa, and discover concrete tools for advocacy and collective action.
Start the courseThe lessons and quizzes are in English. The course videos and the full PDF materials are in French. The community forum is shared with French-speaking learners.
Certificates
Each certificate carries a unique number and a verification code. Employers, funders and partners can check it on this page. You can download it as a PDF and add it to LinkedIn.
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Questions
Yes. Every course and every certificate is free.
The first and last name you give when you create your account. Check them before you finish your first course.
Yes. The same courses exist in French in the Académie francophone du RFLD, and in Portuguese.
Check your spam folder. You can also find your certificate with its code on this page, or write to admin@rflgd.org.
