A Training Manual – Feminist Transformative Leadership & Policy Advocacy
In 2023, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) launched the African Feminist Transformative Leadership Academy. The Academy is one of the interventions implemented by FEMNET in close collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) under the Gender Equality Advocacy in Practice (GEAP) project. The 3-year (2023 – 2025) project seeks to strengthen the policy advocacy capacities of civil society and women’s rights organizations that are advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment to effectively advocate for gender transformative policies and practices at national, regional and global policy spaces.
GEAP is part of AKF’s Advancing Gender Equality through Civil Society (AGECS) initiative supported by the Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to strengthen capacities of civil societies and women’s rights organizations to address the root and structural causes of gender inequalities, challenge gender norms and socio-cultural barriers that hold women and girls back from advancing gender transformative change at household, community and societal levels.
This training manual is designed to guide women’s rights and feminist movements and organisations on how to apply a feminist lens in public policy analysis. It further seeks to equip organisations to meaningfully engage in public policy advocacy and to further strengthen networks. The content brings together theory, knowledge and skills, and capacity for organisations and women’s groups to take-action on key issues affecting women and girls in all their diversity.