An Essay Competition on Improving Access to Justice for women and girls (A2J4WG) BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVE Alliances for Africa (AfA) In partnership with Education as a Vaccine (EVA) is implementing a project targeted at ending violence against women and girls through influencing and advocating for policy reforms to increase their access to justice. As part of […]
Honorable Chairperson of the ACHPR, Alliances for Africa is an international African led non-governmental human rights, peace and sustainable development organization. AfA works with partners in, around and beyond the continent of Africa. Alliances for Africa is a member of the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR), a coalition of over 60 organizations working on […]
IMPACT WOMEN RECOGNITION Every year, Alliances for Africa in commemoration of International Women’s day, put together a collection of radical women change-makers in south-east Nigeria. The “Impact-Women recognition” is aimed at recognizing and amplifying the efforts of women who are making an impact in their communities. Below is a debut list of women who […]
Alliances for Africa For immediate release March 8, 2021. Alliances for Africa Implores the Imo State Government to adopt and implement policies that promote the inclusion of women in politics to advance gender equality. International Women’s Day is an annual celebration that offers an opportunity to reflect on progress made so far towards achieving gender […]
Towards ending violence against women and girls in Imo State, AfA leverages on three key strategies VIZ, Prevention, Activism and Policy (PAP). Accordingly, AfA deploys the prevention and Activism Pillar to bring about significant changes in perception, behaviour and ultimately, practices that fuel the perpetration of VAWG both in school amongst peers, at home and […]
2020 in all its glamour, came with restriction of movement at different levels like never before which resulted in an unimaginable rise in the number of violent cases against women and girls as they were left with no other option than to be stuck with their predators. At the Imo State Committee on Ending Violence […]
Mental Health Awareness On Friday, 29th January 2021, we had a Health Awareness Talk on Corona Virus and Mental Health with Murtala Mohamed Foundation. It is well known that pandemics have a negative impact on the mental, physical, emotional and psychological well-being of individuals. Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders are some of the […]
Some months back, Alliances for Africa conducted an investigative report on the menace of Baby factory, otherwise known as child harvesting. In 2017, the then governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, accented to law, the Imo state protection of babies law. This law, however, has so many lapses and falls short in prescribing appropriate punishments […]
Alliances for Africa DISCLAIMER: IMO STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSON PROHIBITION (VAPP) BILL; A BILL TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM ALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL PRACTICES, NOT AN ABORTION BILL OR A BILL THAT PROMOTES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. There have been fallacies being spread by a Dr Philip Njemanze instigating that the Violence Against […]
Call out for software developers ABOUT AFA: Alliances for Africa (AfA)’s mission is to enhance and strengthen on a sustainable basis, local, national, sub-regional and international institutions in Africa, by being active in the monitoring, advancing, promoting and protection of human rights, peace and sustainable development initiatives. …>> Read More BACKGROUND OF THE CONSULTANCY: The […]