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Women in Action: Advocacy and the Power of Change

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Women in Action: Advocacy and the Power of Change

About Course

This certified course from the RFLD Académie is based on the training material “Women in Action: Advocacy & the Power of Change”. It explains what advocacy is, how to prepare it and how to apply it to five areas: land rights, reproductive health, sexual violence, economic security and education.

Each lesson presents the relevant legal texts, the most common obstacles and strategies that have proven effective in Africa. You will also find exercises to produce your own tools: a land rights guide, an advocacy brief, a care protocol, a business plan and a public debate simulation.

Full course material: download the PDF (in French).

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand the steps of an advocacy process, from analysing laws to monitoring their implementation
  • Know which texts to invoke to defend women's land, economic and reproductive rights
  • Know how to write an advocacy brief and a care protocol for survivors
  • Prepare a convincing public presentation for decision-makers

Course Content

Module 1: Advocacy basics and land rights

  • Advocacy: definition, steps and strategies
  • Defending women’s land rights

Module 2: Reproductive health and sexual violence

Module 3: Economic autonomy and education

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Fund the women who defend rights in Africa, nowFinancez maintenant les femmes qui défendent les droits en Afrique

Aid to women’s organisations is falling. RFLD moves funding fast to women-led organisations and defenders, in French and English, through a network of 1,143 member organisations in more than 35 African countries.L’aide aux organisations de femmes recule. Le RFLD achemine vite les financements vers les organisations de femmes et les défenseures, en français et en anglais, grâce à un réseau de 1 143 organisations membres dans plus de 35 pays africains.

RFLD currently serves as Co-Chair of the SEA-T Programme Advisory Council, mandated to ensure the programme’s direction, priorities, and resources are meaningfully aligned with the visions of African women-led civil society. The 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.Le RFLD assure actuellement la coprésidence du Conseil consultatif du programme SEA-T, chargé de veiller à ce que l’orientation, les priorités et les ressources du programme soient réellement alignées sur les visions de la société civile africaine portée par les femmes. Le programme SEA-T est financé par le ministère fédéral allemand de la Coopération économique et du Développement (BMZ) et mis en œuvre par la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. See the partnershipVoir le partenariat

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  • 35+African countriespays africains
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