Internet Resource Guide

African Resources

ActionAID is a technical and financial support to help national NGOs and communities to develop their capacities to respond to HIV/AIDS, promoting the participation and the leadership of HIV+ people and the use of participative methodologies which take into account the questions of gender, power, culture, and poverty as factors which have an influence on the impact of HIV in the community. ActionAID also does development work with women and children to alleviate poverty.
http://www.actionaid.org

Africa Action -- Strategic Action Issue Area: African Women's Rights contains links and documents on women.
http://www.africapolicy.org/action/women.htm

AfricaBib is a searchable bibliography of 25 years of Africana research, consisting of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and women's literature. Also includes a bibliography of women travelers, explorers, and missionaries to Africa, 1763-2000.
http://www.africabib.org

African Centre for Gender and Development (ACGD) is a division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Established in 1975, the ACGD is the regional structure that deals with gender issues and the advancement of women within the United Nations system in Africa. In this capacity, it works in conjunction with national, sub-regional and regional structures engaged in the advancement of women and gender equality.
http://www.uneca.org/fr/acgd/en/800x600/acgd.htm

African Gender Institute (University of Cape Town) has a vision of Africa as a continent liberated from the legacies of colonial and patriarchal domination, and transformed into a powerful and united region in which women and men are respected as equal, and social justice is a reality for all its people. The AGI's mission is to contribute to the realization of this mission by building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity.
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi

African Lives consists of a series of occasional articles, written by Stephen Buckley for the Washington Post, chronicling the joys and struggles in the everyday lives of African peoples.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/front.htm

The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas, and strategies among African women's non-governmental organizations through communications, networking, training, and advocacy, so as to advance women's development, equality, and other women's human rights in Africa.
http://www.femnet.or.ke

African Women's Media Center works with existing women's media organizations to provide women journalists the support necessary to compete with their male colleagues.
http://www.awmc.com

AFROL News offers articles on Africa from various sources (UNICEF, World Bank, IPS, etc.)
http://www.afrol.com

Agenda is a feminist project in South Africa committed to giving women a forum, a voice, and skills to articulate their needs and interests to transform unequal gender relations.
http://www.agenda.org.za

Ahfad University for Women is a private university in Sudan dedicated to educating women, strengthening women's roles in national and rural development, and achieving equity for women in Sudanese society.
http://www.ahfad.org

AIDS Help International manufactures hand-crafted fundraising items, providing income for communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Profits are injected into community projects focusing on education, women, and children.
http://www.aidshelp.co.za

Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is an international, pan-African, non-governmental development organization African women based in the UK with an Africa regional office in Kampala, Uganda. AMwA was set up in 1985 by women from different parts of African resident in the United Kingdom. Translated from Swahili, the name means 'solidarity among African women,' signifying African sisterhood. AMwA was founded to create space for African women to organize and build links with other African women active in the areas of their own development.
http://www.akinamama.org/welcome.html

AllAfrica Global Media - Women posts stories daily in English and French and offers a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as a 400,000-article searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997).
http://www.allafrica.com/women

An Eternity of Forest is an exhibition of essays and artwork by Mbuti (Democratic Republic of Congo) women.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/mbuti

APC-Africa-Women is a network of organizations and individuals that work to empower African women's organizations to access and use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for equality and development. APC-Africa-Women is the Africa regional program of the Association for Progressive Communications' (APC) Women's Networking Support Programme. Working with women in Africa and all over the world, APC-Africa-Women focuses on African women's empowerment through information facilitation, regional support, lobbying and advocating around gender and ICTs, delivering ICT training, conducting research into gender and ICTs, and participating in regional and global events.
http://www.apcafricawomen.org

Association of African Women Scholars is a worldwide organization that promotes scholarship on African women.
http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws

Camfed works with rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa to enable more girls to go to school and secure a livelihood.
http://www.camfed.org

Coalition on Violence Against Women - Kenya is a women's human rights organization that is committed to the eradication of all forms of violence against women and the promotion of women's human rights.
http://www.covaw.or.ke

Commission on Gender Equality is one of the mechanisms that freedom-loving South African women and men fought for, in order to promote and protect gender equality, as part of the pursuit of social justice and democracy.
http://www.cge.org.za

Empowerment for African Sustainable Development (EASD) is a private non-profit corporation focusing on the empowerment of African people and institutions operating in the areas of environmental management and sustainable development.
http://www.easd.org.za

ENDA - Synergy and Development is conducting activities that benefit women by promoting gender equity, peace, and sustainable development. In 1995, SYNFEV launched the "Communication for Women" program, primarily aimed at Francophone African women. The initial phase (1995-1997) of this program was devoted to the creation of the femmes-afrique network. The second phase (1998-2000), "Francophone African women are active in the cyberspace," focused on training, network diversification, and partnerships building. The current phase (2001-2003) aims to consolidate previous actions and deepen research and discussions on the dynamic relations between "Gender, Communication, and Diversity".
http://www.enda.sn

Flame: African Sisters Online was a project that ran from July 1999 - June 2000 and provided women and women's NGOs in Africa with information about the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action assessment process in Africa, information about the UN and regional process, NGOs input, and linkages with other regional review processes. The Flame Project was a joint initiative of APC-Africa-Women and FEMNET. This Website is now a valuable archive but is no longer updated. There are also links to information on the Beijing+10 process and to the debates.
http://www.flamme.org

Forum for African Women Educationalists aims at ensuring that girls have access to school, complete school, and perform well.
http://www.fawe.org

The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) is an independent, non-governmental advocacy and lobbying organization based in Cape Town, South Africa, that aims to bridge the "gap" between government and civil society, especially for poor black women. GAP focuses on its work in seven areas: Domestic Violence, Social Policy and Gender, Gender Advocacy and Lobbying Training, Reproductive Health, Women and Governance, Local Government and Gender, and Women and the Media.
http://www.gender.co.za

Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA) is a pan-African research and advocacy program established in 1996 by women from across Africa in order to influence economic policies and decision-making processes in Africa from a gender perspective. Committed to gender equality and economic justice, the programme supports African women to undertake a variety of African-designed policy research and advocacy projects that meet country and region-specific needs. Since 1996, GERA has supported 16 action-research projects in 11 sub-Saharan African countries.
http://www.twnafrica.org/gera.asp

Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation is creating a network of scholars working on gender issues in order to work locally on gender justice with analytical and policy advocacy skills.
http://www.gwsafrica.org

Gender, Biodiversity, and Local Knowledge Systems to Strengthen Agricultural and Rural Development in Southern Africa is an FAO project that works with a diverse range of organizations in four countries of Southern Africa - Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe - to explore the linkages between gender, biodiversity, and local knowledge systems.
http://www.fao.org/sd/links/gebio.htm

Gender Education and Training Network (GETNET) is an independent organisation committed to working for the establishment of a non-racist, non-sexist and democratic South African society through education and training on gender issues. It is an active, dynamic networking organisation. It is linked to a broad South African and Southern African network of individuals, organisations institutions and agencies who are practitioners in the field of gender and organisational change.
http://www.getnet.org.za

Gender in Africa Information Network (GAIN) aims to facilitate communication, discussion, and information sharing between organizations and people interested in gender and women's issues in Africa. As a network, GAIN is committed to making indigenous information on women and gender valued, visible, and accessible globally and participate in the global information socity in order to promote gender justice and women's rights in Africa.
http://womensnet.org.za/links/gainbroch.htm

GENNET is an electronic discussion list intended as an open forum for the discussion of gender-related topics, primarily (although not exclusively) in Southern Africa.
http://www.geocities.com/~anntothill/gennet/

Growth Through Learning seeks to provide and enhance educational opportunities by offering scholarship aid to deserving East African girls and young women. In addition, the organization encourages a cross-cultural exchange of information and ideas between countries.
http://www.growththroughlearning.org

Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa includes a focus on Women's Studies, Men's Studies, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies. In addition to offering courses and programs to students, the Institute is involved in community services and projects, as well as research into gender-related issues.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/gen

Isis - Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange carries out the vision of its founders - communicating ideas, creating solidarity networks, and sharing information to overcome gender inequalities. Isis-WICCE is located in Uganda, with the objective of tapping African women's ideas, views, and problems and sharing the information with women at the international level.
http://www.isis.or.ug

Journalists Environment Association of Tanzania (JET) works in the fields of environment, women's affairs, and sustainable development, both nationally and internationally.
http://www.jet.or.tz

Niger Delta Women for Justice works in close collaboration with other grassroots organizations and women's groups in all of the 15 ethnic nationalities in the Niger Delta. It is committed to improving the personal, economic, and educational status of women and to ensuring that their environmental and human rights are upheld.
http://www.ndwj.kabiss.org

Organization of Women Writers of Africa is a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of establishing links between professional women writers from Africa and its Diaspora.
http://www.owwa.org

PENDUKA is a non-profit, non-governmental development project that works with women's groups in the rural, underdeveloped areas of Namibia. In the Oshiwambo and Herero language the word PENDUKA means 'Wake Up' but to us it means: "Women should wake up and become aware of themselves." The aim of PENDUKA is to help rural women from all over Namibia to create their own jobs by becoming aware of, and building on, skills and resources they already have.
http://www.universal.nl/users/penduka

Reading Women Writers and African Literatures provides an overview of African women writers writing in French (with Website and many materials available in English). It provides an opportunity to find out more about the authors' lives and interests and to get acquainted with their novels, short stories, plays, and poetry.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChomeEN.html

Reproductive Health Research in South Africa - Directory of Health System Research links to research on eight categories of issues of women's reproductive health, including abstracts and project contact information. Many of the project descriptions articulate particular health concerns, as well as the economic, social, and political context under which health evaluations were made.
http://www.hst.org.za/healthstats/index.php?indtype_id=003006

Research Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (Rainbo) is an international not-for-profit organization working on issues within the intersection between health and human rights of women. Starting with the issues of Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation, Rainbo explores means of preventing this and other forms of gender-based violence, with the ultimate goal of promoting and protecting African women's and girls' full sexual and reproductive health and rights.
http://www.rainbo.org

SANGONeT is a facilitator in the effective and empowering use of information communication technology (ICT) tools by development and social justice actors in Africa.
http://www.sn.apc.org/index.html

South Africa--Women & Gender offer an introduction to the many online resources related to Women's and Gender Studies.
http://www.geocities.com/~anntothill

South African Women for Women is a diverse organization committed to supporting South African women, contributing to the empowerment of the women of South Africa, honoring those who have struggled, and celebrating those who have achieved.
http://www.interlog.com/~saww

Tanzania Gender Networking Program is committed to facilitating social transformation leading to the creation of a vibrant Tanzanian society. It seeks to promote gender equality and social equity through the empowerment of women and other marginalized groups of the community.
http://www.tgnp.org/

Tostan is an international NGO based in Senegal. Dedicated to women's health and human rights, Tostan (Wolof translation: breakthrough) developed an innovative basic education program that emphasizes literacy, numeracy, improving life skills and family income, and encourages women to participate in village decision making.
http://www.tostan.com

UNESCO - Girls' and Women's Education in Africa offers online information on educating women and girls in Africa.
http://www.unesco.org/education/mebam

Women in Development: Southern Africa Awareness provides access to information, working closely with the Southern African Development Community and national partners in 14 member countries. Regional in focus and action-oriented, WIDSAA aims to act as a catalyst and a service for governments, NGOs, and agencies in the region, as well as for the media and the public at large, in the formulation of policy affecting women.
http://www.sardc.net/widsaa

Women of Uganda Network is an NGO coalition of women's organizations in Uganda that encourages use of information and communication technologies by women in order to work on sustainable development issues.
http://www.wougnet.org

Women's Action for Development (WAD) is a self-help organization that aims at uplifing the socio-economic and socio-political situation of primarily Namibian rural women.
http://www.kas.de/proj/home/home/8/1/webseite_id-1660/

Women'sNet is an innovative networking support program designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources, and tools needed for women's social activism.
http://www.womensnet.org.za

Women's Struggles is a site maintained by the African National Congress which contains documents concerning women in the liberation struggle.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/women/index.html

World Bank Group - Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa offers related documents of Sub-Saharan gender projects and issues.
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/gender

Zimbabwe Women's Resource Center and Network is a gender and development organization involved in gathering, analyzing, repackaging, and disseminating information on gender and development issues, especially those on gender, HIV/AIDS, and the economy.
http://www.zwrcn.org.zw