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46th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
 The Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) will hold its 46th session from 12th to 30th July 2010 in New York. More |
AT LAST A SINGLE GENDER ENTITY "UN-WOMEN"!
 WiLDAF is joining other women’s organizations around the world in order to welcome the unanimous adoption by the UN General Assembly of the resolution creating the new entity devoted to gender equality and women’s empowerment. More |
GEAR-UP for a more ambitious women’s agency
The representatives of the campaign GEAR-UP (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) presented on 17th June 2010, to the President of the UN General Assembly, Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki the global petition and pressed for the UN to establish a strong new agency for women by July 2010 . More |
Millennium Development Goals Report 2010: the news is not quite good
 The United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon presented yesterday 23rd June during a press conference, the Millennium Development Goals Report 2010. This annual accounting report is dedicated to the analysis of the eight Millennium Development Goals. More |
Rural women’s empowerment: the paralegal farmers are more determined thane ever to bring their contribution
 WILDAF-WA had, from 7th to 9th June 2010, held its exchange meeting at regional level with actors involved in the implementation of its project “using law for rural women’s empowerment in West Africa”. More |
The knowledge and use of law, an efficient way of empowering women
 WILDAF is happy to propose you Roukiéta’s story, a woman farmer from Burkina trained in the framework of the project “Using law for rural women’s empowerment in West Africa”, started since January 2009 in five countries, mainly Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo. More |
Subregional exchange meeting on the project “Using law for rural women’s empowerment”
 WiLDAF–West Africa is organising from 7th to 9th June 2010 at CIFEX (Agbalepedo-Lomé) a sub regional exchange meeting on the implementation of its project “Using law for rural women’s empowerment in 5 West African countries”
Participants are actors involved in the implementation of the project in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo. More |
The new Family Code in Mali: WILDAF takes up actions to accelerate its adoption
From 9 to 17 May 2010, WILDAF/Mali conducted throughout the country a national information campaign for a deeper understanding of the contents of the new Family Code by the populations. More |
MDGs pre-summit with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector
Ten years ago, the UN member states agreed to the Millennium Declaration and committed themselves to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In September this year, the world leaders will meet during the 2010 MDGs Summit in order to discuss measures needed to achieve all eight goals. La suite |
TOWARDS GENDER RESPONSIVE AND EQUITABLE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING
The NGOs subcommittee of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) based in New York issued a statement on women and climate change. This Statement comes in response to the ECOSOC High Level Segment open call for oral and written statements. Read the statement |
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 Project: "Using Law for Rural women’s empowerment in West-Africa"
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In the implementation of the project: " Good governance and women’s participation in seven West African countries " the national networks WiLDAF/FeDDAFs (Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo) elaborated new " Training manual for women’s participation in governance”.
Two (2) types of manuals (in normal version and simplified), have been produced by the national networks while taking into account each country specificity. It is the " training manual for the participation of women in good governance: Planning, programming, budgeting, budget analysis and gender integration process, Human rights of women , Lobbying and negotiation, and building of coalition”
WiLDAF -West Africa in its concern elaborated a manual for the national networks in French and English version on "training manual for women’s participation in governance, advocacy, lobbying, networking, coalition building and negotiation"
These manuals exist in normal version and in simplified version and can be download on our website
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