Kwanele – winner of a Grand Challenges Grant
Kwanele – Bringing Women Justice is the winner of a #GrandChallengesgrant – an initiative fostering innovation to solve pressing global health and development problems and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! Leonora Tima, CEO of Kwanele – Bringing Women Justice will pursue
SA NGO Wins Global Prize for AI Bot to Aid GBV Survivors
Cape Town, 2023 – Kwanele - Bringing Women Justice, a leading non-governmental organization dedicated to supporting survivors of gender-based violence, won 2nd Prize (and $30,000 in prize money) in The Mozilla Foundation’s Ethical AI Challenge in San Francisco on Wednesday
Celebrating Women, Voice and Leadership
Johannesburg, 14 March 2023: South African women from 31 organisations across six provinces walked away with awards in seven categories at an emotional ceremony on International Women’s Day. “You made the choice to be a voice,” said Canadian High Commissioner
Rapid Response Additional Funding Survey
The Women’s Voice and Leadership project in South Africa is coming to an end in March 2023. Gender Links would like to invite you to complete one additional survey from the rapid response grantees on additional income generated as a result
Economic Empowerment
Friday, 2 December 2022: Economic Empowerment Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm (SA time) Sign up or login to the Southern Africa Gender Community and click on cyber dialogues If you need more detailed instructions, click here The Sasopsbiz Foundation has
Human Rights Day
Friday, 9 December 2022 Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm (SA time) Watch the recording of the cyber dialogue. New Heritage Foundation will host a dialogue discussion with young women and men with key stakeholders around the changes
World AIDS Day
Thursday, 1 December 2022 Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm (SA time) Sign up or login to the Southern Africa Gender Community and click on cyber dialogues or join us on Zoom Zoom link: https://genderlinks-org-za.zoom.us/j/86355654998 If you need more detailed instructions, click
Combatting gender based violence
Tuesday, 29 November 2022 Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm (SA time) View the recording. On Tuesday 29 November 2022, TOFYWD in partnership with Phola and the Johannesburg Region C GBVF Forum will commemorate the International Women Human
African Feminism Discussion paper: Comment on the chapters
This discussion paper on African feminism stems from a med-term monitoring and evaluation survey of the Canadian Government funded Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) Programme grantees. The Fund was set up as part of the Canadian government’s Feminist
GL & Amplify Change launch Voice & Choice Fund
Friday 22 July, Gender Links (GL) in partnership with Amplify Change, today announces the launch of the Voice and Choice Fund targeting Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in Southern Africa focusing on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The fund is part of GL’s vision of
Women in Dialogue
Gender Links in partnership with the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance and the Women Voice and Leadership South Africa programme are hosting a series of online dialogues which started in August and will run until December 2022 as women across
JAW’s model of individual empowerment
Justice and Women’s model of individual empowerment usurps patriarchal norms and practices in rural KwaZulu-Natal | An observer’s perspective (The data below is from internal project documents or interviews and focus group discussions conducted by the author during a project