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YOWLI 2010 APPLICATION

 

 

 

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The Young Women’s Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI) is one of the 2 Flagship programs of AWOMI. The other flagship program is the African Women Empowerment Fund (WEFU).  YOWLI was set up to enable young women and men of African descent to widen their leadership horizons enhance their knowledge base and actively engage in monitoring and fighting for social justice. YOWLI supports innovative ideas that challenge anti human rights strategies and propel organizing for social transformation.

 

ANNUAL LETTER

As we embark on implementation of our 2010 work plan, it is the time to revisit the achievements reached and lessons learned from AWOMI’s projects.  We have much to celebrate given the multiple outcomes from 2009, which provide us a robust base for the future.

In 2009, AWOMI worked with women and youth in 11 African countries to introduce a process, providing them a means to financial independence through ownership of personal financial accounts. The following 3 programs were key in achieving such milestones, the Women Empowerment Fund (WEFU) linking economic education, opportunity and advocacy; The Young Women Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI) linking knowledge building, leadership and movement building; the Accountability Tracking (ACT) linking evidence building to demanding accountability.


 

 
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Accountability Tracking                 



  The Accountability Tracking (ACT) is one of AWOMI’s three main program areas of work. It covers action research mapping all critical issues related to gender, economic reforms and social justice including access to water and sanitation, HIV/AIDs, services related to sexuality, reproductive health and rights (SRHR); food sovereignty and nutrition, finance, women’s unpaid work, representation, participation and voice. The ACT starts with evidence gathering undertaken by women at local level supported by academics, parliamentarians and gender equality activists. It is the tool enabling women and youth to hold their governments and all public institutions to account. Following its design the tool is tested at different levels, fora and processes.

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Women's Empowerment Fund (WEFU) 



AWOMI’s third program, the Women Empowerment Fund (WEFU) is the corollary activity of the ACT and YOWLI. The WEFU serves as a funding program to post YOWLI identified initiatives and also promotes income generating opportunities for women at the local level. Following the month long YOWLI training AWOMI selects a few of the best YOWLI proposals that link implementation of the ACT to Advocacy and social mobilization and provides support to the YOWLI groups through a partner mentoring organization.

The WEFU has also enabled numerous women’s organizations to access seed money for implementing the ACT while enhancing their income earning activities. The WEFU is the vehicle that allows these economic actors to understand the place of their activities in the production chain of the sector and identify policy challenges that they can use in their advocacy for demanding change as well as increased budgetary allocations for their activity. The WEFU proves to be an innovative initiative in the sense that most financing to income generating activities do not integrate a research or advocacy dimension like the ACT. The WEFU is a catalyst for women understanding where is the money, which controls resources and decision making and how they can engage with them to ask for a more equitable distribution of the national and local budget.

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Young Women Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI)

3rd Edition

Dec 2010 - Jan 2011

Senegal



Does the Global Financial and Economic crisis matter for Young African Women and Men’s Rights, Leadership and Organizing?"

The Young Women’s Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI) is one of the 2  the Flagshp programs of  AWOMI.  The other flagship program is the African Women Empowerment Fund (WEFU) .  YOWLI was set up to enable young women and men of African descent to widen their leadership horizons, enhance their knowledge base and actively engage in monitoring and fighting for social justice. YOWLI is a space that supports  innovative ideas that challenge anti human rights strategies and propel organizing for social transformation.

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