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
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