{"id":11939,"date":"2020-04-09T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:24:59","slug":"surviving-covid19-why-we-need-to-listen-african-womens-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/surviving-covid19-why-we-need-to-listen-african-womens-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving COVID-19: Why we need to listen to African women\u2019s organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p-file_image_thumbnail__tiny_thumb_wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11940\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sisters-keeper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sisters-keeper.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sisters-keeper-450x236.jpg 450w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sisters-keeper-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sisters-keeper-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Written By : Jessica Horn <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the threat of COVID19 emerged into full global view, African women\u2019s rights organisations started to raise red flags around what effective responses needed to consider-but would likely leave out. They were prepared. Not with the practicalities of hand sanitisers, virtual work arrangements and food distribution plans, but with the familiarity of what crisis means for women, and the knowledge that if we fail to take into account women\u2019s needs, we are not going to survive this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Generalised catastrophe may well be the \u201cnew normal\u201d for the privileged, but it has been the backdrop of African women\u2019s organising for generations. In the two decades of The African Women\u2019s Development Fund\u2019s operations, our grantees have worked to try to get one step ahead of epidemics such as HIV\/AIDS and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/1869\/women-lead-the-charge-in-post-ebola-guinea\/#ixzz41B7AMpXV\"><span class=\"s2\">Ebola<\/span><\/a>, to mobilise to <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/interview-with-leymah-gbowee-co-recipient-of-the-2011-nobel-peace-price\/\"><span class=\"s2\">end war<\/span><\/a> in their countries and communities, and pick up the social, political and economic pieces in its aftermath. Beyond headline disasters, grantees have also worked persistently on the quieter but no less deadly threats of economic collapse and everyday <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/AWEF-Statement-FINAL.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">economic precarity<\/span><\/a>, and the reality that the patriarchal violence against us as women costs us our emotional and economic wellbeing, and sometimes also costs us our lives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So it is not surprising that as COVID19 started to touch the continent, AWDF grantees were already outlining a political agenda for the response, warning of possible consequences if we fail to be attentive to the fact that health crises are <i>always <\/i>gendered. In the words of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianfeministforum.org\/2020\/03\/24\/the-nigerian-feminist-forums-response-to-the-impact-of-covid19-pandemic-on-vawg-in-nigeria\/\"><span class=\"s2\">press statement<\/span><\/a> issued by the Nigerian Feminist Forum, \u201cit is imperative that we<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">ensure that gender-sensitive responses are implemented, so that the cumulative effect of the current<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">crises are not paid by women, girls and, the most marginalised in IDP camps, rural and urban shanty towns, [the] disabled\u201d. Staff of Southern African advocacy platform Genderlinks flagged in a Mail and Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2020-03-24-safeguarding-womens-rights-during-the-covid-19-shutdown\/?amp=1\"><span class=\"s2\">article,<\/span><\/a> that women constitute a majority of health sector workers and domestic workers in South Africa, and also carers in the family- all forms of care labour that increase the risk of exposure to the COVID19. This is a similar truth across the African continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As lockdowns and social distancing began to be proposed as a disease control measure, African feminists spoke up to raise concern about the implications and the difficulties, in particular for the most marginalised. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/thecorrespondent.com\/378\/why-social-distancing-wont-work-for-us\/50039243100-5409cfb5\"><span class=\"s2\">think piece<\/span><\/a> on social distancing OluTimehin Adegbeye, journalist at The Correspondent and graduate of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>AWDF\u2019s African Women Writer\u2019s Workshop reflects that for a city like Lagos, \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s4\">the idea of social distancing is not just alien to us, it is impossible for social and economic reasons too.\u201d Where a majority live in cramped physical conditions, survive through high-contact economic activities like petty trade, and rely on each other for help and shelter, the idea of just staying indoors is simply not viable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Of equal concern is the patriarchal truth that homes are often not safe for women or girls, and indeed for Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender women being asked to stay in closer proximity to homophobic and transphobic family members.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Grantees like Rape Crisis Cape Town have acted fast on this understanding, expanding their hotline services in anticipation of an increase in violence as women are locked down with their abusive partners.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is also important work to track and make visible new challenges posed by lockdowns for different communities of women. Regional feminist advocacy platform FEMNET have invited African women to share lockdown concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/femnetprog?lang=en\"><span class=\"s2\">on Twitter<\/span><\/a> using the hashtag #inclusivelockdown \u2013 an ongoing social media discussion that has surfaced real crisis for women with disabilities in particular. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The gendered threats posed by lockdowns and curfews have also come from state authorities. At the start of the COVID19 lockdown in Uganda for example, a number of women\u2019s organisations including grantees Strategic Initiatives for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) and Mentoring and Empowerment Programme for Young Women (MEMPROW) <a href=\"https:\/\/sihanet.org\/statement-of-solidarity-we-demand-accountability-for-the-brutality-by-ugandan-law-enforcement-agents\/\"><span class=\"s5\">raised the alarm<\/span><\/a> about physical attacks on women street vendors after a Presidential directive around trading in street markets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In broader view, the COVID19 pandemic shines a global spotlight on the deficits of widespread privatisation of health services across Africa. As Crystal Simeoni, Economic Justice Lead at FEMNET, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equaltimes.org\/why-nigeria-knows-better-how-to#.XotJQi2ZPeR\"><span class=\"s2\">argues<\/span><\/a> \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s4\">healthcare requires proper investment horizontally in a way only public sector can provide. It means a holistic approach to healthcare that provides for safe water to wash hands to stop the spread of the disease, it requires doctors that are decently paid and work in safe conditions as well as research that is well-resourced\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">As the pandemic progresses, we remain committed to supporting this agile African feminist response to crisis, aware too that the insights shared by our grantees in this pandemic moment are also setting the compass towards the structural change that needs to be prioritised once the immediate health threat is over. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Jessica Horn is Director of Programmes at AWDF. 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