Despite this effort from decades ago, the representation of women in both elective and appointive positions is very low as women are usually marginalized in terms of participating in the process of political leadership and decision making. Download December Newsletter PDF to know more…
GENDER (WOMEN) AND THE ENVIRONMENT GENDER (WOMEN) AND THE ENVIRONMENT nvironment is one word that has become very popular in the past decade due to the undesirable effect of climate change. What comes to mind when we hear the word environment is our surroundings, trees, water, air, the animals around us and a […]
Yuletide greetings from all of us at Alliances for Africa. We appreciate you for all the support though the Year. This is to bring to your attention that Alliances for Africa will be Closing for the Christmas and New Year Holiday on the 21st of December 2018 to resume on the 7th of January […]
September Newsletter (PDF) Cultural Barrier among other factors continues to perpetuate the low representation of women in leadership at national, state and local levels in Nigeria. Working experience with women and traditional rulers at the community level in the southeast shows that four (4) out of the five (5) southeastern states have a cultural or […]
THE AUGUST MEETING The Aba Women’s Riot was a story I heard while growing up but did not pay much attention to. I was oblivious of the impact it made in the lives of women in the eastern part of Nigeria until I relived history in the play titled “The August Meeting”. The play which […]
Activity Report: Citizenship, Democracy and The Culture of Transactional Politics in Nigeria confrence. Date of Activity: November, 13th – 14th , 2018. Participants: Youth Leaders and Influencers from all geo-political zones in Nigeria. Introduction In June 2018, the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation in collaboration with the Olusegun Obasanjo Library convened a retreat to explore […]
Alliances for Africa (AfA) Statement on the Just Concluded Political Parties’ Primaries and its Gender Implication for Nigeria’s Democracy. Several days, after the just concluded political parties’ primaries election in Nigeria with special reference to the South-Eastern Nigeria. Citizens especially women have raised concerns querying the fairness of the primaries. Nigeria is on the verge […]
In a Nigeria where the efforts of the young persons to stir the ship of governance is ridiculed, we remain at the brink where return is not in contemplation. Nigeria, it is time to return from the brink and recreate our realities. Time to create SAFE POLITICAL SPACES for young persons to occupy the corridors […]
CELEBRATING THE MAPUTO PROTOCOL AT 15. The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa also known as “Maputo Protocol”, was adopted by the Assembly of the African Union in Maputo, Mozambique on 11 July 2003. The protocol is a legal instrument with the most comprehensive articulation on women’s […]
ABA- PARTICIPANTS at a one day programme on Women In Politics organized by the Alliance for Africa (AFA) in partnership with UNWOMEN Funds For Gender Equity (FGE) have identified Sexual Harassment, Culture, Election violence and Stigmatization as some of the major obstacles hindering the active participation of women in the politics of Abia state. The participants who were gathered […]