– Interview – Cornélia GLELE: Beninese filmmaker and feminist
Activist and defender of women's rights in Benin, Cornélia GLELE is the founder of the Cotonou International Women's Film Festival (FIFF). Launched in 2019, the event highlights and celebrates the work of African female filmmakers. The third edition took place from February 20 to 24, 2024.
– Bringing a feminist perspective to the Francophone conference on HIV: a look back at AFRAVIH
The AFRAVIH Conference is an essential forum for dialogue on HIV in French-speaking Africa. At the 12th edition in Yaoundé, Equipop advocated for the incorporation of a feminist perspective, which is essential to the fight against HIV and the defense of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Our interventions highlighted the link between […]
– International Conference on “Public Action and Citizen Mobilization in Africa”: Equipop shares its feminist approaches to democracy
Continents, particularly Africa, are undergoing democratic transition. The challenges of democratic transition mainly include consolidating democratic institutions, promoting citizen participation, protecting human rights, and managing political tensions.
JEV – The educational guide to a healthy feminist democracy!
The Jeunes en vigie (JEV) project is an innovative initiative in Burkina Faso and Senegal that aims to strengthen youth participation in health decision-making bodies through health democracy with a feminist approach.
ROAJELF calls on health authorities to address the need for holistic shelters for survivors of sexual violence
Today, some survivors seek to escape repeated violence from their partners, their partners' families, and sometimes even their own families. Often accompanied by young children, they want to leave this violence behind despite their vulnerability, their fears, and the weight of tradition... in order to stop enduring further abuse and humiliation [...]
From empowerment to an effective place in decision-making bodies
Between 2021 and 2024, 90 young women known as auditors challenged health authorities in their respective districts (Burkina Faso: Koudougou, Réo, Koupéla, Tenkodogo; Senegal: Mbour and Matam) , to demand improved sexual and reproductive health services and the active and effective participation of young people in decision-making bodies on [...]
Repoliticizing sexual and reproductive rights and health: creating “our own space”
From March 4 to 6, 2024, in Cotonou, Equipop organized, with a committee of experts, a symposium entitled "A space of our own between activism and research: let's discuss a feminist approach to SRHR!"
– SANSAS young leaders: social and political mobilization for their reproductive rights!
For 15 months, Equipop and JED (a Senegalese organization specializing in community development, popular education, and transformative approaches) supported young leaders from the Sansas project in implementing advocacy plans. Aimed at local (municipal and departmental councils) and national (ministries, parliamentarians) decision-makers and elected officials, these advocacy efforts focus on the following topics [...]
Jeunes en Vigie closing workshop: a space for dialogue on a feminist approach to democracy in health
From December 5 to 7, 2023, the city of Dakar hosted the closing workshop for the Jeunes en Vigie project. On the sidelines of this workshop, a round table was organized on December 7 on the theme: "Health democracy and the meaningful and inclusive participation of young people for effective accountability in [...]
– ROAJELF GUINEA: Informing, raising awareness, and mobilizing in response to the resurgence of rape of minors
Faced with the alarming rise in sexual violence against women and girls, the West African Network of Young Women Leaders in Guinea (ROAJELF Guinea) has launched a multi-stakeholder media campaign on rape of minors to raise awareness of the scale of this phenomenon and urge the authorities to […]