Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA)

Type of Organization:

Regional Network

Membership Base:

Africa, Global

Geographic Focus:

Africa

Mission Focus:

Primary UNFCCC Constituency:

Women & Gender

About

Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is an international, Pan-African, non-governmental development organisation for African women with its Head Office in Kampala, Uganda. AMwA was established in 1985 as a small community-based organisation, which sought to create a space for African women to organise autonomously, network with each other, share skills and expertise, identify issues of concern and speak for themselves. Translated from Swahili, our name means and symbolises the principles of sisterhood on which the organisation was based: ‘Solidarity among African Women’.

Their mission is to build feminist leadership and collective power to deconstruct intersectional systems of oppression to advance gender and social justice.