Year: 2015
Health and Safety Technical Support Project Report
Health and Safety Technical Support Project Report
The African Women’s Development Fund’s Health and Safety Technical Support Project provided food and health safety technical support to 11 small – medium sized women’s rights organisations in Ghana engaged in food production and processing activities.
The training programme offers useful and practical help to women food producers and processors to ensure a safe and healthy environment at work, in line with the International Labour Organization’s Safe Work mandate, which aims to create worldwide awareness of the dimensions and consequences of work-related accidents, injuries and diseases.
Read the full report below:
FEMNET FOI and Women’s Rights- Advocacy, Actions and Other Interventions
FEMNET FOI and Women’s Rights- Advocacy, Actions and Other Interventions
Advocacy Actions & Other Interventions on FOI
For women’s rights organizations, the right of access to information would capacitate women and girls to effectively influence financing for health, service delivery, compete favorably in the economic market, promote and protect their human rights including access to land and ownership, make decisions concerning their sexual and reproductive health, among others.
Since 2009, FEMNET has been championing collective participation of women’s rights organizations in lobbying for the enactment and implementation of FOI laws in their countries. This year, we are keen to highlight the latest updates/news and keep the momentum especially in supporting the enactment and implementation of FOI laws as well as increasing awareness amongst women’s rights organizations in linking women’s rights issues to FOI laws.
Your Responses to the following 5 questions will shape our advocacy actions and other interventions.
Kindly submit responses by end of day 20th October 2015.
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Grantee Highlight: Boxgirls Kenya Documentary ‘Nairobi’s Boxgirls Fight Back’
Grantee Highlight: Boxgirls Kenya Documentary ‘Nairobi’s Boxgirls Fight Back’
Broadly, a women focused website and digital video channel, has debuted a short documentary on Boxgirls Kenya, a community outreach programme, that focuses on young women and girls’ sexual and health rights. Founded in 2008 by professional boxers, Boxgirls Kenya uses boxing as a tool to tackle issues of sexual and gender based violence affecting young women and girls in marginalised communities in Nairobi.
The programme has made significant strides, reaching over 1,200 girls in the community while challenging negative perceptions about women and girls and breaking the silence on sexual abuse and violence. In 2014, Boxgirls Kenya received a grant from the African Women’s Development Fund to support its Msomi project, which included training coaches, sexual abuse prevention education and an annual boxing tournament.
The short documentary, dubbed “Nairobi’s Boxgirls Fight Back,” highlights their work in educating young Kenyan women and girls about their rights while equipping them with skills to help defend themselves against violence.
Watch the short piece below: