Gender Inclusion
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Not Mozambican, Not Zimbabwean: What Will Become Of The Babies Born In No-man’s Land?
Nov 28, 2016By Ray Mwareya “Dozens of women give birth in this mountain, more get miscarriages, too much dirty soil and messy food. The nearest clinic is 70km away, west in Zimbabwe, over seven river crossings. In... -
Growing Up in Ogiek, an Interview with Community Champion, Maureen Bii
Nov 13, 2016Today, we take a look at Ogiek, an indigenous community of hunter-gatherers in rural Kenya which has been hunted by land right clashes until recent time. Commonly referred to as the caretakers/guardians of the forest, the... -
Catherine Onyemelukwe: Nigerian Culture Gave Me a Sense of Belonging
Nov 5, 2016Two years after Nigeria declared its independence from Britain, 21 years old Catherine Onyemelukwe came to Nigeria as a Peace Corp volunteer to teach German to secondary school pupils for two years. Halfway through her... -
Rural women are catalysts for sustainable development
Nov 1, 2016“Rural women are powerful catalysts for sustainable development, as well as agents against poverty and hunger” Our coverage on women issues can be found here Source...Read More -
#SRHRDialogues on how to facilitate and advocate for #RightToHealth with a special focus on access to Contraception for Young Women Living with HIV
Oct 24, 2016Insights from Juliana Odindo on #Voices Q1. What barriers do young women living with HIV face in accessing Contraception? Young women living with HIV don’t have many contraceptive options. This is due to the fact... -
Kenya: Young Women Lack Access to Safe Abortion Services
Oct 23, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech, Kenya In 2012 the Google Zeitgeist Report ranked abortion as top on the list of the subjects Kenyans search for in the ‘How To’ category. This showed that many girls and... -
Why Family Planning Needs Of Rural Women Can No Longer Be Ignored
Oct 17, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech Access to safe, accurate, high quality, affordable, acceptable and voluntary family planning is a basic human right yet thousands of young girls and women who want to avoid pregnancy in Kenya’s rural... -
How Can Rural Women Help End World Hunger And Poverty?
Oct 15, 2016“The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have gender equality and women’s empowerment at their core, and include a target to “double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women”. Indeed, rural women... -
#WhatWomenWant; Young African Feminists Informing #SDGsDialogues
Aug 14, 2016Featuring ; Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo (Cameroon), Catherine Nyambura (Kenya) & Sarah Anupi (Kenya) August 12 is International Youth Day and the Theme for 2016 was “The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production,” with a special focus on... -
Toyin Saraki Speaks on Nutrition, Breastfeeding in Abuja
Aug 8, 2016The wife of the Senate President, and founder of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, on August 3rd, 2016 Chaired a high level nutrition stakeholders meeting to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week 2016 with the theme “Breastfeeding a...