Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2112718
A. Mwiine
abstract Since Uganda’s independence in 1962, feminist advocacy in Africa and Uganda, in particular, has experienced waves and critical agendas that have shaped the direction of movements and women’s rights organisations. How can we map the trajectory of feminist advocacy to understand the influence of theory, in particular African feminism(s) in Uganda? This is the central focus of this article. Literature shows how women activists in Africa took centre stage, questioned women's conspicuous absence in social economic and political history and assertively challenged patriarchal oppression against women in public and private spheres. Activists in the Ugandan feminist movement formulated advocacy strategies to resist colonial gender oppression, mobilised women to respond to the review of the constitutional provisions on women’s rights, to organise even when confronted with state silencing, and to form critical alliances to meet male resistance to their political representation in Parliament head on, among others, since independence. The article draws on findings from an empirical study conducted in 2019-2021, Kampala, Uganda, on selected historical junctures and interrogates theoretical origins and motivations that could be read as having informed feminist advocacy - the feminist agenda, strategies and tactics, framing and language. I am particularly interested in how African feminists’ theoretical frames critically inform shifting advocacy positions in Uganda over time to advance gender transformation, and thereby advance the theorisation of an African centred-feminist advocacy.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2120408
Nontobeko Gcabashe
abstract Literature has much to say about the socio-economic, and political, impact of civil wars on women. The Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) policy framework was designed by the African Union (AU) in response to the devastation caused by civil wars in post-conflict African countries. While contexts differ in each country, the framework provides a general outline of steps to be followed by an African country emerging from civil war, in pursuit of successful post-conflict reconstruction and development programmes. Of interest to this article, using Monrovia (Liberia) as a case study, is the extent to which the AU PCRD policy initiative recognises the agency of women as being central to the process, and whether it bolsters their capacity and access to discussion around the table. It proposes that feminist advocacy is a precondition to push for positions on post-conflict peacebuilding in which women play a key role. This in itself is contingent on the effectiveness of government mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s voice in policy and government. The potential of women as contributors to peace-making and conflict resolution processes and commitment to sustainable peace is not in question in Liberia’s history. What is missing in action is Liberian women’s presence and mobilisation around long stalled reconstruction and rebuilding. Drawing from a mixed-method research study conducted in Monrovia between April 2019 and April 2021, research found the AU PCRD policy initiative is ineffective, as it considers women on paper, in isolation from the specific context in which women can assert power through representation and voice, not only in participating in post-war reconstruction but in Liberia’s political decision-making forums. Wider social gender power imbalances and inequalities experienced by women are directly linked to their lack of presence and visibility in driving the peace, security and reconstruction processes. There is a need to be able to demand accountability in the commitment to post-war reconstruction. As major stakeholders in the post-conflict reconstruction programme, women should be at the top of Liberia’s reconstruction programme, consistent with the AU PCRD framework agenda objectives.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2138768
Sethembiso Mthembu
abstract Her Rights Initiative (HRI) has been leading feminist and victim-led advocacy, research, and human rights work to seek justice for HIV positive women who are victims of forced sterilisations in South Africa, for more than a decade. The issue of forced and coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV in South Africa was documented in the late 1990s. This violation of the rights of HIV positive women has continued over three decades. The South Africa HIV Stigma Index study by the Human Sciences Research Council and other collaborating partners, found that 7.6% of women living with HIV reported that they were forced into sterilisation. South Africa has more than four (4) million women living with HIV (Cloete et al. 2014). This article seeks to analyse the long unfinished advocacy journey to seek justice for HIV positive women who are victims of forced sterilisations. It will detail the position and the status of HIV positive women in the HIV policy arena and consider the ideology of international HIV and sexual and reproductive rights policy and context and how these factors have enabled and hindered our advocacy efforts. In line with the principles of victim-centred feminist advocacy, I will reflect on the internal, looking specifically at how HRI has framed victim-centred feminist advocacy, and how this has sustained the organising, and more importantly, contributed to gains made so far.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2114839
Corey Spengler-Gathercole
abstract This article proposes reasons for change in policy on sex work in South Africa and the feminist advocacy to lobby and petition for this change. It seeks to understand how recent advocacy by both sex workers and the organisations advocating on behalf of sex workers in pushing for policy change is feminist and explores whether it is in conversation with feminist principles. The article achieves this through an analysis of the activism, strategies, and campaigns to affect policy change, and the varying successes of these in raising awareness around issues faced by sex workers are highlighted. The exploration of sex work policy advocacy is contextualised through a comparison of various policy approaches regulating sex work globally. Feminist advocacy needs to focus on solutions from Africa and the South and consider the impact of the West on local advocacy. This includes the use of legislative frameworks implemented in first world countries, the links being made between sex work and trafficking and the impact of funding on research on sex work. Feminist advocacy is divided, and the article examines the possible reasons for this division and how feminist advocacy can be more effective, considering the unique socio-economic conditions in South Africa and the imperatives for policy change.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2135262
Lou Haysom
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2127373
Premie Naicker
abstract Feminist advocacy is concerned with ending injustices worldwide by advancing women's rights. In general, feminist advocacy can be seen as a movement to end sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression and achieve full gender equality in law and practice. After several decades of global and regional feminist advocacy by women’s organisations, trade unions, and policy agencies, we must revisit and reframe old questions on the critical gaps that remain. In this briefing, the question for feminist advocacy is why women continue to receive lower pay for the same work as men in South Africa and many other parts of the world, across many sectors of women’s employment and work. While women make up 51% of South Africa’s population, they fill just 44% of skilled posts, according to labour data released in 2017 by Stats SA (Stats SA 2017). According to the 2017 Pulse of the People report, women, on average, earn 27% less than men (Africa Check 2017). Recent data published by the National Treasury in South Africa show that men earn more than women in seven out of eight South African metros, more evidence of the widening pay gap (Evans 2021). The question is, how is feminist advocacy key to addressing the wage gap for black women? Drawing on secondary literature, I review what is in place to address the gender wage gap. I note how feminist advocacy strategies could focus on strengthening existing policies and introduce new strategies to close the gap.
{"title":"Turning up the volume on equal pay: Notes toward building a platform for feminist advocacy","authors":"Premie Naicker","doi":"10.1080/10130950.2022.2127373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2022.2127373","url":null,"abstract":"abstract Feminist advocacy is concerned with ending injustices worldwide by advancing women's rights. In general, feminist advocacy can be seen as a movement to end sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression and achieve full gender equality in law and practice. After several decades of global and regional feminist advocacy by women’s organisations, trade unions, and policy agencies, we must revisit and reframe old questions on the critical gaps that remain. In this briefing, the question for feminist advocacy is why women continue to receive lower pay for the same work as men in South Africa and many other parts of the world, across many sectors of women’s employment and work. While women make up 51% of South Africa’s population, they fill just 44% of skilled posts, according to labour data released in 2017 by Stats SA (Stats SA 2017). According to the 2017 Pulse of the People report, women, on average, earn 27% less than men (Africa Check 2017). Recent data published by the National Treasury in South Africa show that men earn more than women in seven out of eight South African metros, more evidence of the widening pay gap (Evans 2021). The question is, how is feminist advocacy key to addressing the wage gap for black women? Drawing on secondary literature, I review what is in place to address the gender wage gap. I note how feminist advocacy strategies could focus on strengthening existing policies and introduce new strategies to close the gap.","PeriodicalId":44530,"journal":{"name":"AGENDA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47023315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2112719
Fatma Zennou, Aisha Rahamatali, Marie Paule Yao, Zenab Bagha
abstract This article profiles the Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) model as a platform and foundation for women to raise their voices and collectively advocate for change. It examines how women in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria leveraged feminist solidarity through VSLAs to advocate for, support, and establish women’s leadership in crisis. CARE, working hand in hand with rural women in Niger, gave birth to the VSLA model in 1991 to serve as a model for women’s empowerment, public participation, and gender transformation. VSLAs have served as a powerful launch pad for individual and collective feminist advocacy. At a foundational level, members of VSLAs benefit from improved livelihoods and social and financial safety nets in times of distress. From a community perspective, VSLAs ignite feminist solidarity which has sparked collective action such as the building of schools, holding of local government officials to account, and influencing leaders to change the practice of early marriage and devaluing of girls’ education. In 2020, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, VSLA women-led solidarity groups became a tool of effective action for expanded leadership and feminist political advocacy. This collective feminist advocacy was motivated by a leadership void created by the pandemic and a lack of policies that actively and effectively safeguarded women. This article examines the power of this collective voice and advocacy. It further examines the lessons that can be learned from the transformation of VSLAs as a source of social safety nets and economic power to a catalyst for collective voice and feminist advocacy.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2135260
Claire Mathonsi, V. Tallis
Feminist advocacy and particularly African feminist advocacy has not been widely studied and documented. There is need for an exploration and interrogation of what the concept of Feminist Advocacy means in an African context and more broadly to document its rich history. Many feminist and women’s rights organisations as well as mainstream organisations use the concept with different explanations of why it is indeed Feminist Advocacy that includes defining approaches or in reference to the identities of organisations. Evidence shows us that advocacy in Africa is largely seen as Northern (Banerjee & Connell 2018), and donor driven (Wilson & Keyserling 2016). However, Southern Feminisms (including African feminism) have been key in stressing the importance of localised advocacy based on the “real needs” of women’s communities of the South, evident in the articles in this edition.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2128836
M. Mushunje
abstract Abortion remains highly contested in Zimbabwe and this stems from deeply rooted and set convictions based on religious, traditional, cultural, and moralistic persuasions. Political will to commit to unrestricted conditions for abortions also remains very limited as evidenced by the continued hesitancy to review the 1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act (ToP) (Chapter 15:10) which allows for abortion under the circumstances of rape, incest and health. There have been concerted efforts to engage in advocacy campaigns for the review of the ToP to allow for more liberal conditions and this has seen feminists coming together to influence various constituencies. Advocacy efforts have centred on conducting a multi-lane approach comprised of Values Clarification Attitudes and Transformation exercises with traditional leaders, Parliamentarians, religious and cultural leaders; engagement with Ministries of Justice, Health, Education; media engagement of feminist reporters for informed and transformative reporting on abortion, and linking with global campaigns for ongoing learnings. To date, the advocacy has resulted in the abortion agenda being discussed in Parliament and there is evidence of more progressive attitudes by gate keepers and opinion leaders. Draft regulations and a new ToP Bill have been developed by the feminist advocates, both of which have been submitted to Ministry of Justice for adoption. Contained within these are proposals for the expansion of the conditions under which one can access a safe abortion and streamlined revised administrative procedures for more efficient handling of reports of rape and the granting of an abortion order.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2022.2104126
Deirdre Prins-Solani
Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Reinterpret Southern Africa’s Pasts (2021) edited by Bernedette Muthien and June Bam, is a long-awaited celebration and centering of the voices of indigenous women in feminist activism, knowledge production and theorisation. It speaks evocatively to African feminists’ refusal to be homegenised or for our voices to be submerged, or lost as peripheral to the metropole or a mainstream singular feminist narrative. For the contributors and editors of this important new book, the work of retrieval and recovery and healing it encompasses and is immersed in, is contemplated in the presence of the ancestors, advancing the spirit and endeavour of feminisms into new landscapes and indigenous directions. It urges an engagement with as yet unheard yet prolific herstories that originate from African indigeneity.
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