Expert and activist perspectives to encourage feminist foreign policies
On November 23, 2022, the event "Women and Conflict: Towards Feminist Diplomacy" organized by the CESE (Economic, Social, and Environmental Council), the High Council for Equality (HCE), and UN Women France, brought together more than 2,000 people in person and online, demonstrating growing interest in the subject and high expectations for […]
The Agora: coming together to create, mobilize, and resist
After successive lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 crisis, West African feminist movements needed more than ever to come together again, to meet, to reconnect.
– Label ampli – “Becoming a benchmark in terms of governance” – Interview with Brehima Ballo, AMSOPT
Bréhima Ballo is program manager at AMSOPT-Mali (Malian association for monitoring and guidance on traditional practices). He led his organization's certification process, enabling it to achieve Level 2 certification.
– Label ampli – “Nothing limits us when it comes to adopting best practices” – Interview with Agathe Blanc, AFJCI
Interview with Agathe Blanc, Program Manager at AFJCI (Association of Women Lawyers of Côte d'Ivoire). As a member of the Label Ampli certification committee, she has carried out two organizational assessment missions in Niger and Guinea. Feedback.
– DO Fund – Call for projects – June 2022
The Organizational Development Support Fund (OD Fund) as part of the project "Amplifying change for equality: strengthening young feminist movements in French-speaking West Africa (JFAO)" is launching its first call for projects for feminist organizations.
– “Militant Burnout” – French-speaking sororities #3
Depression, chronic fatigue, and loss of motivation: activist burnout is a reality that must be taken seriously in order to improve activists' well-being. Equipop and the Network of Young Feminists of West Africa devoted the third meeting of the "Sororités francophones" cycle to the issue of activist burnout.
– High Council for Equality: Equipop co-chairs the commission on “Feminist diplomacy and international and European issues”
Nicolas Rainaud, advocacy manager at Equipop and member of the HCE from 2019 to 2021, is joining the high council for a second term (2022-2024) under the chairmanship of Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette. Through its involvement in the HCE, Equipop will campaign, among other things, for the implementation of a genuine feminist foreign policy.
- Opinion column - The far right is incompatible with women's rights
Equipop, in line with its April 15 press release, is one of around 40 associations that have signed an open letter issued by the Fondation des Femmes. They highlight the immense risk to women's rights posed by the far right coming to power in France.
– Ampli Label – “We are the first organization to achieve Level 3 of the Ampli Label.”
The Songui Manégré Association for Endogenous Development (ASMADE) was founded in 1994 in Burkina Faso by a group of development workers. Among them was Juliette Compaoré, the current executive secretary. ASMADE's goal is to improve the living and working conditions of people in Burkina Faso. In June, it was the […]
– 2022 presidential election: for feminist public policies!
Equipop, together with its partners in the Collectif Générations Féministes (Feminist Generations Collective), is publishing an open letter calling for feminist public policies on March 8. Addressed to the presidential candidates, it calls on them to make the fight against inequality a key focus of their campaigns.