Dear partners and friends,
Twenty-three years ago this month, the Maputo Protocol was adopted in Mozambique. To mark the anniversary, we have brought RFLD’s entire sexual and reproductive health and rights portfolio together on a single page, and we would like to invite you to explore it:
What you will find there:
— Six thematic areas, each anchored in the Maputo Protocol article it implements: safe abortion and reproductive choice; family planning and sexuality education; ending FGM and child marriage; gender-based violence, including technology-facilitated violence; sex trafficking and exploitation; and inclusion and stigma reduction;
— Our health work on malaria and maternal, newborn and child health across the highest-burden francophone states, including our 2026–2028 commitments;
— Our work with adolescent girls: menstrual health, covering sanitary products, school sanitation and ending menstrual stigma; early pregnancy prevention, with school re-entry support for adolescent mothers; HIV prevention; and the recognition of GBV as a health issue;
— The West African Francophone Feminist Fund and its four grant windows for feminist organisations across the nine Ouagadougou Partnership countries, including urgent-action decisions within five business days;
— The Africa Portfolio Grant, opening for applications in September 2026 across all 55 AU member states.
RFLD serves this year as Co-Chair of the Society Equality Africa Transformation (SEA-T) https://www.giz.de/en/projects/society-equality-africa-transformation-sea-t Programme Advisory Council (BMZ/GIZ), helping ensure that programme direction and resources align with the visions of Afro-feminist civil society.
Please explore, share with your networks, and write to us whether you are a grassroots organisation looking at the West African Feminist Fund windows, a researcher interested in our open data, or a partner exploring deeper collaboration.
In solidarity,
Our Offices : Porto-Novo · Accra · Dakar · Banjul
