The Network for Womenās Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) is all set to host its 2022 National Feminist Forum (NFF) on the theme, Enhancing Activism In The Women’s Movement: Mobilizing For Inclusion and Diversity. The two-day event is scheduled to take place on October 26 and 27, 2022 in Accra.Ā
The National Feminist Forum which is being supported by Plan International Ghana with funding from Global Affairs Canada under the Womenās Voice and Leadership (WVL) Project will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on feminism and gender equality work. It will also discuss topical and emerging issues affecting feminists across different spaces and to build solidarity and strengthen momentum to push for a common feminist agenda.
According to the Programme Manager of NETRIGHT Patricia Blankson Akakpo, āIn the struggle for womenās rights and gender equality, the demands of our time make it obligatory for us to continuously examine and interrogate processes that perpetuate existing structural inequalities that work to exclude women, girls and vulnerable groups from fully enjoying their fundamental human rights.āĀ
āNETRIGHT in its quest to contribute to strengthening the womenās movement in Ghana provides space for feminist discourse through the hosting of the National Feminist Forum which brings together feminists with diverse background and interest to interrogate policies, discuss challenges facing the movement and agree on strategies to enhance womenās rights and gender equality work,ā she added.Ā
Ms. Akakpo also noted that besides the in-person participation, NETRIGHT will leverage technology to enable feminists that are unable to attend in-person to join virtually.Ā Ā Ā
The NFF will adopt a participatory approach including interactive presentations, breakout sessions as well as panel and plenary discussions where participants get to reflect on womenās mobilising over the years, interrogate policies and their implications for womenās empowerment and gender equality, assess the policy space and gender equality work and Ghanaās performance with regard to addressing systemic and structural barriers inhibiting the advancement of women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.Ā
Key expected outcomes at the end of the two-day National Feminist Forum (NFF) will be a clear and well-defined strategies to strengthen womenās mobilising and networking to push for gendered transformative changes, and an inclusive action plan for diversity and intergenerational collaboration in the promotion of womenās rights through a feminist agenda.
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AboutĀ NETRIGHTĀ
Network for Womenās Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) is a network of civil society organisations and individuals working together to bring a gender perspective into national processes and advocate for policy change to strengthen womenās human rights. NETRIGHT aims to create spaces for debate, discussion, and clearer articulation of different positions within the Ghana womenās movement on womenās rights issues, as well as other national issues.
SignedĀ
Patricia Blankson Akakpo
Programme Manager
For further information, contact the Communications OfficerĀ
Joyce Hilda Efia Aboagye on 0554601162 or email via efiaaboagye@netrightghana.org