CREA Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute – East Africa 2023

CREA’s Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute– East Africa is a residential program designed to strengthen feminist solidarity, leadership, advocacy, and strategies for building collective power for social transformation. The Institute engages feminists from across the region to build a substantive understanding of our present with all its challenges and possibilities. It interrogates concepts and structures that affect our strategies by embedding patriarchy and gender in concepts of nation, identity, religion, polity, and development. To make meaning of what feminist struggles have transformed and how new forms of patriarchy are part of existing inequalities.

The Institute is designed on the premise that feminist leadership can be strengthened and have greater impact when women’s rights activists and advocates have greater conceptual clarity and strategic approaches that go to the roots of inequality rather than dealing with its symptoms alone. The Institute aims to encourage and enable participants to:

• Interrogate
• Explore
• Build
• Locate
• Reflect
• Expand

Concepts such as nation, identity, power and development that affect our struggles and strategies by reshaping the discourse and practices of patriarchy and gender.

From this, participants will be able to critically assess women’s movements in Africa and explore concrete strategies to strengthen links between women’s movements and other social justice movements to collectively advance women’s human rights.

About CREA

CREA is a feminist international human rights organization based in the Global South and led by women from the Global South. CREA’s work draws upon the inherent value of a rights-based approach to sexuality and gender equality. CREA promotes, protects, and advances human rights and the sexual rights of all people by building leadership capacities of activists and allies; strengthening organizations and social movements; creating and increasing access to new information, knowledge, and resources; and enabling supportive social and policy environments. ... read more... read more

Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute

Aim and Benefits of Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute

• CREA will cover tuition, accommodation and meals for all participants during the course. Accommodation will be on a twin-sharing basis.
• A limited number of travel scholarships are available (visa fees and travel insurance are not included).
• Those not receiving a travel scholarship are responsible for making their own arrangements for travel, visa and insurance.

Requirements for Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute Qualification

FLMBaRI East Africa is for activists, service providers, community organizers, researchers and human rights practitioners working on issues of sexuality, sexual and gender diversity and diversity of sex characteristics/LGBTIQ rights, sexual rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, rights of persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDS, public health, violence against women/gender-based violence, health, and/or gender, nationally, regionally. 30 participants will be selected to attend the Institute. Participants should be embedded in human rights and/or feminist movements or civil society or work closely with them. Full-time students are not eligible. All applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID and willing and able to undertake travel to Nairobi, Kenya. We invite members of structurally excluded groups from East Africa to apply.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit CREA website.