Zeytuna Abdella Azasoo
Ghana / Ethiopia
I am a proud AFRICAN WOMAN. I believe every woman is entitled and has a right to enjoy all
human rights.
I live in Ghana. I work with the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF),
an African grant-making foundation whose vision is for African women to live in
a world where there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human
rights. In order to achieve this we mobilize and disburse financial, human
and material resources to women rights organizations to support positive
transformation in Africa. This contributes immensely to women’s developmental
agenda by mitigating the impact of various challenges faced by many women
in Africa. African women do make change happen.
My prime responsibility at AWDF is managing Monitoring and Evaluation
(M&E) related work of the organisation. As such, I coordinate: periodic internal
and external evaluations, monitoring visits to grantees, development of annual
work plans, facilitation of midyear and end of year organisational reviews,
data collection and analysis among others. I also provide inputs to the grantmaking program and donor relations work of the organisation. These are done
with the aim to inform decision making and in shaping program directions of
the organisation.
I am a proud AFRICAN WOMAN. I believe every woman is entitled and has a
right to enjoy all human rights. Women carry much of the burden in society and
we deserve to be cherished and treated equally. There are many challenges
that the feminist movements in Africa face, including those strongly linked to
economic, political, social and cultural spheres and practices of society.
To overcome some of these challenges, feminist movements in Africa should
deepen efforts to share and learn from each other, opening up to different
ways of thinking, doing and strategising as well as networking with other
feminist movements outside Africa. We also have an excellent tool in the
African Feminist Charter that we can use to guide our work. This tool should
serve as a means to shape organisational undertakings including working
relations with various stakeholders. Besides, there is a need to intensify efforts
in order to popularize and incorporate the Charter by creating space and
time during major sub regional, regional and global conferences. This can be
followed by organisations signing up to report periodically on the use of the
African Feminist Charter.
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