Founded in 2009 as a feminist advocacy organization, Women for a Change, Cameroon is a subregional feminist advocacy, research, and awareness-raising organization working with and for women and girls sexual and reproductive health, leadership and development within the context of climate justice, peace and security across Central Africa.
Vision
To see a society where women and girls sexual and reproductive health and rights are respected, promoted and protected.
Mission
Wfac’s works is anchored around advancing women and girls SRHR through advocacy, feminist movement building, campaigns, and trainings.
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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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- Convened over 100 feminists’ and women’s rights advocates across the continent for the #AfricaDisruptCSW68 to share learnings and experiences in advancing women’s right and gender equality.
- Hosted an inclusive and intergenerational subregional feminists’ forum on Beijing+30; bringing together over 150 feminists across the Central African subregion to appraise the challenges and opportunities in advancing the implementation of the Beijing Declaration across the CEMAC subregion and beyond.
- Led Climate Change conversations at national and subregional levels, engaging in global climate meetings such as the COP, SBI & SBSTA and UNEP INC negotiations
- Enhanced access to comprehensive sexuality education to more adolescents and young people in and out of schools via our virtual e-learning platform gshe.wfaccameroon.org
- Hosted our e-learning virtual platform gshe.wfaccameroon.org with over 500 active users.
- Led a 12-person subregional delegation to the COP28 including adolescents and young people, and women’s rights activists’.
- Engaged in the UNEP INC negotiations to end plastic pollution, and the African Climate Week/Summit; nexusing climate change with SRHR.
- Led a subregional delegation including adolescents and grassroots women to the CSW67
- 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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