– Promoting gender equality in alternative care: the experience of SOS Children's Villages and Equipop
How can gender equality be sustainably integrated into alternative care? This is the challenge that SOS Children's Villages France and Equipop have been tackling since 2023 through the QUAPAO project, which aims to strengthen egalitarian dynamics within SOS Children's Villages in Togo, Niger, and Ivory Coast. This partnership draws on the expertise of a network […]
– EquipopLabs for feminist advocacy at the heart of communities
In 2025, three incubation labs were organized by Equipop as part of the C'est la vie! (CLV 2) project in Ouagadougou, Abidjan, and Niamey. These workshops, facilitated using the EquipopLab participatory methodology, brought together members of Ratanga Clubs, civil society organizations, institutional partners, the project's feminist consultants, [...]
– Young Women in Motion: Five days to imagine, share, and co-create advocacy strategies to combat sexual violence against women.
From April 2 to 7, 2025, the Professional Training Center (CIFOP) in Mboro, Senegal, welcomed 135 Young Women in Motion (JFM) from Mbour, Fimela, and Matam. Accompanied by teams from Jeunesse et Développement (JED), Equipop, and a Senegalese feminist consultant, these young women took part in a unique incubation lab […]
– Strengthen media practices to better combat gender-based and sexual violence
From March 18 to 21, Equipop led a workshop on feminist communication for feminist journalists. Over four days, participants came together to reflect on dominant media practices, deconstruct sexist representations in the news, and strengthen their skills to produce more accurate and transformative reporting on gender-based violence […]
– In Senegal, strengthening dialogue between young people, political authorities, and committed professionals: a look back at the SANSAS project round table
A roundtable discussion held at the end of January 2025 to share key lessons on improving sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people in Senegal. This exchange brought together young people, health professionals, representatives of public institutions, and technical and financial partners, with the shared ambition of […]
– Data to take action against gender-based and sexual violence!
Data on gender-based and sexual violence (GBV) is essential for understanding the phenomenon, its causes, consequences, needs, and obstacles, and thus for developing and implementing effective, appropriate, and high-quality policies.
- Sang pour Sang: a worldwide project to defend menstrual dignity
Launched in October 2024, the Sang pour Sang: uni.e.s pour la dignité (Blood for Blood: united for dignity) project aims to change the narrative surrounding menstruation, which is not simply a matter of hygiene. Thanks to funding from AFD – FSOF (Fund to Support Feminist Organizations), this project, carried out in consortium with three other NGOs, has […]
– Commitments to protect survivors of gender-based and sexual violence!
Shelters for survivors of gender-based and sexual violence (GBV) with no accommodation in Benin, a law protecting and creating shelters with no implementing decree in Burkina Faso, a new government with no national strategy to increase the number of centers providing holistic care for survivors of GBV—these are […]
– Francophone Sororities #8 – Media and Feminisms: creating, transforming, dreaming our spaces
At the 8th Sororités francophones meeting, three media and feminism professionals gathered to discuss the theme "Media and Feminism: creating, transforming, dreaming our spaces." Christelle Murhula, freelance journalist and author, Sadia Mandjo, founder of Tour d'Afrique des droits des femmes (Tour of Africa for Women's Rights), and Kharoll-Ann Souffrant, social work researcher, […]
– Women's rights leagues demand data so they can fight back!
As part of the Feminists in Action (FEA) project, the LIGUES consortium, comprising the Ivorian, Beninese, and Nigerien Women's Rights Leagues, conducted an assessment in each country of the systems for collecting data on gender-based and sexual violence (GBV) with the aim of understanding why there is so little [...]