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Africa Day 2024: Reflecting on RFLD’s Work Empowering Women and Girls

Climate Justice

May 25, 2024 Africa

Africa Day 2024: Reflecting on RFLD’s Work Empowering Women and Girls

Celebrating Africa Day, the Women Leaders Network for Development (RFLD) highlights our mission of empowering women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa. RFLD works to dismantle barriers to gender equality and social inclusion through promoting human right, fostering collaboration, and advocating for the rights of women in areas like SHRH, civic engagement, economic justice, climate change, and peacebuilding.

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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
N°553ACHPR observer statusstatut d’observateur CADHP
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