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Togo: free caesarean section to be effective by 2011
 A delegation from WiLDAF-Togo composed of its Chairperson Claire Quenum and the members of the coalition "Women and Good Governance" was received on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by the Prime Minister of Togo, Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo. More |
Girl’s week, 2010 edition: « Girls and boys, together for the promotion of women’s rights and the culture of excellence »
Last August 18th, the reflection and action Group: “Women, Democracy and Development”, an organisation promoting and defending women’s rights, launched the second edition of “Girl’s Week”, in SIFED at Université de Lomé. More |
Towards a Human Rights Strategy and Governance Architecture for Africa
The African Union is in the process of developing a Human Rights Strategy for Africa and African Governance Architecture. These two documents are still in the process of drafting and need to be enriched. More |
WILDAF West Africa Activity Report 2009
 WILDAF West Africa has published its annual activity report 2009. This report describes various actions undertaken by the network at national, regional and international levels through the implementation of projects … More |
The African Women’s day: beyond festivities, here is the opportunity for our advocacies.
 For the 48th time, African women will be in honour on next 31st July. In fact, the African Women’s Day, the 48th edition of which is today, was born from the desire of the continent’s women to get united into a continental organisation within which they could be validly represented at international level. During the constitutive meeting in Dar-Es-salam, the African Women’s Conference was created. Under this institution that became the Pan African Women’s Organisation in 1974, the African Women’s Day is celebrated every year. More |
Green revolution in Africa: 2-day dialogue for a better partnership of stakeholders
 WiLDAF-WA participated in the dialogue on collaboration between the civil society organisations and the “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – AGRA” held on last 15 and 16 July in Nairobi, Kenya. More |
Uganda ratified the Maputo protocol on women’s rights
One more ratification
Uganda took advantage of the 15th session of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union to ratify on 22 July the protocol to the African Charter on human and people’s rights (ACHPR) relating to women’s rights. More |
Ban attends the first meeting of the MDG Advocacy Group in Madrid
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the vital role played by the group of current and former political leaders, businesspeople and thinkers he set up last month to spur action on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), stating that the time has come to turn commitments into action. More |
46th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
 The Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) will hold its 46th session from 12th to 30th July 2010 in New York. More |
AT LAST A SINGLE GENDER ENTITY "UN-WOMEN"!
 WiLDAF is joining other women’s organizations around the world in order to welcome the unanimous adoption by the UN General Assembly of the resolution creating the new entity devoted to gender equality and women’s empowerment. More |
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 Project: "Using Law for Rural women’s empowerment in West-Africa"
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In the implementation of the project: " Good governance and women’s participation in seven West African countries " the national networks WiLDAF/FeDDAFs (Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo) elaborated new " Training manual for women’s participation in governance”.
Two (2) types of manuals (in normal version and simplified), have been produced by the national networks while taking into account each country specificity. It is the " training manual for the participation of women in good governance: Planning, programming, budgeting, budget analysis and gender integration process, Human rights of women , Lobbying and negotiation, and building of coalition”
WiLDAF -West Africa in its concern elaborated a manual for the national networks in French and English version on "training manual for women’s participation in governance, advocacy, lobbying, networking, coalition building and negotiation"
These manuals exist in normal version and in simplified version and can be download on our website
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