and Rights Institute

Application Deadline: December 10, 2022

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.

Institute Pedagogy

Activists, practitioners and academicians will teach the course using classroom instruction, group work, case studies, fiction, and films.

The Institute emphasizes linking theory to practice;
The participants will learn to critically analyze policy, research, and their own program interventions, using a rights-based approach;
The Institute is not a training or workshop, and attempts to recast the idea of collective and experiential ways of learning;
The Institute emphasizes learning led by world-class faculty.

Logistics

The Institute will be held from 29th January- 4th February in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants will be expected to arrive on 28th January and depart on 5th February, and expected to be present throughout the entire duration of 8 nights and 7 days.

Institute Costs

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.

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Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute East Africa
27 – 31 October 2014
Nairobi, Kenya

The sixth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute is a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa. The Institute will combine reflection on the current political landscape as well as past organising strategies for women’s rights in Africa by using a trans-movement-building approach. Looking at diverse movements in Africa and globally, participants will be able to relate some of the experiences and lessons from these movements to their own contexts, countries, and regions.

Eligibility Criteria:

Be a woman between 25 and 45 years of age
Reside or work in East Africa (Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Somaliland, Tanzania, and Uganda)
Have a minimum of 3 years of experience working on gender issues, women’s rights, development, and/or youth activism (voluntary or employment)
Be able to demonstrate how you will use what you learn at the Institute in your work and how you will continue to participate in follow-up activities
Have a working knowledge of the English language and/or be bilingual if French speaking.

The sixth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute will b e held in Nairobi,Kenya, during 27‐31October2014(Begins9amon27October;Ends4pmon31October).

Travel and Visa

Participants are responsible for incurring their travel costs to and from the Institute, and obtaining their own visa. CREA will assist with the visa process by providing a letter of invitation and required visa letters.

Costs

Tuition,accommodation,and meals for the duration of the Institute will be covered by the organisers. Participants will be required to pay a registration fee of USD100.

Participants must cover their own travel expenses.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be on twin‐sharing basis.

Apply Now for the Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute—East Africa Program

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the CREA Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute Programme

CREA’s Feminist leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute– East Africa (Travel Scholarships Available – Nairobi, Kenya)

Institute Pedagogy

Logistics

Institute Costs

2014 Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute—East Africa.