MILESTONES & IMPACT
GENDER EQUALITY
Join the thousands of women and girls voices around the region, and the world stand against discrimination and gender based violence by advancing women's rights and participation, through the #GenEgaliteECCAS Movement. A pioneer initiative to galvanize women and girls' voices into active and meaningful participation.
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- Connected 10 young WHRD to donors and partners.
- Led the 1st GenEgaliteECCAS delegation to CSW66 & COP27 and other major international events
- Mentored and Coach WHRDs and movement actors
- Supported and hosted the GenEgaliteECCAS feminist movement;
- Provided strategic guidance and Mentorship to the adolescent movement Mifali;
- Accredited with the UN ECOSOC status;
- Served as an advisory member in the organizing of GEF Mexico and Paris;
- Served as a member of the Global NGOCSW planning committee for upcoming CSWs
- Created space for grassroots communities and voices to participate and actively engage and shape global debates and policies.
- Convene one of the 1st and largest campaigns leading to Generation Equality Forums in 2021,
- Co-create the GenEgaliteECCAS movement across 10 ECCAS and CEMAC region,
- Support young feminists organizations and individuals with capacity leadership and resource mobilization skills,
- Strengthened Wfac institutionally.
- Nominated the 1st Adolescent Board at Wfac.
- Trained and built a cohort of 100 young feminists with deeper knowledge, understanding and skills in shaping global policies and advocacies.
- Supported the participation of 5 adolescent girls in HLPF, regional convening such as the Beijing25 Regional Review in Addis, Ethiopia and ICPD25 Nairobi Summit in Kenya.
- Supported and empowered 1000 adolescents with the right information and knowledge on gender, sexuality and health services and facilities.
- Led and amplified the voices of women and girls across the Central African Region in the Beijing+25 Processes, including the Generation Equality Action Coalition campaign as well as facilitated the intergenerational learning, exchange and networking between hundreds of thousands of adolescents, and tens of thousands of young women and men as allies and advocates of women’s rights.
- Provided strategic support to the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family (Minproff) on the CSW62.
- Hosted the 1st National Pre-Commission of the Status of Women Convening
- Provided consultancy to United Nations Systems on the Implementation of the O3 Program in/out of schools.
- Trained over 100 young women living in rural communities on public policy ahead of the Presidential Elections.
- Initiated participatory interaction between presidential candidates and citizens especially women leaders.
- Adopted the African Feminist Charter as a guiding principle for Wfac’s movement-building actions.
- Wfac gender, Sexuality/Society and Health Education (gShe) program expanded to 4 of the 10 regions of Cameroon.
- Launch of Feminist Assembly and Established the Annual Feminist Assembly (now known as FemDialogue Afrika).
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Wfac envisions a Cameroon where girls and women can: Exercise their human rights to access sexual and reproductive health friendly services, education, information to make informed and healthy decisions about their life and wellbeing, likewise strengthen skills, capacities to champion and transform lives of peers and women and girls for an equal future Access strategic spaces and platforms to provide significant inputs and contributions in accelerating the advancement of women and girls right, leadership development and empowerment
In realizing this vision, Wfac has adopted a “C.S.E model” which is: to Connect, Support and Empower women and girls, grounded in four critical areas: Critical Area 1: Dialogue – Create space for meaningful dialogue between grassroots voices and policymakers Critical Area 2: Sustainable Volunteerism – supports women and men, boys and girls to speak out on violence against women and girls through a nine-month sustainable voluntary gender, Sexuality/society and health education (gShe) programme in/out of schools and three-month girls/boys football tournament #SDGsFootVacances Focus Area 3: Feminist Leadership and Movement Building – establish movements, empower women and girls on sexual and reproductive health rights advocacy, build leadership and capacities of young women and girls rights activists to lead change Focus Area 4: Advocacy – advocates towards achieving the sustainable development goals (3 and 5) as well as other national and international frameworks such as the Maputo protocol, CEDAW, ICPD PoA, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and the Agenda 2063 of harnessing the demographic dividend.