« We must keep up our efforts and commitment to develop a role for the Alliance Droits et Santé network in supporting its member organizations’ work towards continuous quality improvement. »READ MORE
Twenty years ago, Equipop began working alongside small and medium-sized West African activist organizations dedicated to women’s rights and health. Early on, these partners expressed a need for support in structuring their organizations and adapting to complex operating environments.
Equipop believes in its civil society partners’ collective power to accelerate social and political change in West Africa, so it recently developed two new flexible and innovative financing mechanisms: the Innovation Fund and the Organizational Development Fund.READ MORE
Equipop, convinced of the transformative potential that collective and multidisciplinary action represents, decided in 2017 to extend its range of support for changemakers. It now offers Equipop Labs, a new method of supporting project planning and development within the Equipop Innovation Fund.READ MORE
Equipop believes that fair and sustainable development for all can only be achieved through the fight for women’s rights. For example, it saw an obvious need for collaboration with West Africa’s feminist activists, so Equipop began a fruitful partnership in 2018 with representatives from West African women’s movements.READ MORE
Cornélia Glèlè is a member of the Young West African Feminist Network, the West African Young Women Leaders Network, and the founder of EcranBenin.READ MORE
Seizing the opportunity presented by France’s G7 presidency, Equipop stepped up its efforts to persuade government officials to put gender equality at the heart of public policies. The organization helped bring together several feminist movements through “Women 7” (W7), a network of feminist activists from France, other G7 countries, and West Africa. The W7 Summit was the highlight of this mobilization: 400 participants from around the world joined forces in Paris on May 9, 2019.READ MORE