AFRICAN WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK (AWLN) GHANA CHAPTER

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AFRICAN WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK (AWLN) GHANA CHAPTER

The primary aim of AWLN is to enhance women's leadership across all diverse backgrounds for the transformation of Africa into a peaceful and inclusive continent.

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ABOUT AWLN

African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Ghana Chapter is a ground-breaking movement of African women leaders established in 2017. A joint initiative of the African Union and the United Nations, AWLN has a goal of creating a continent-wide women’s movement led by and for women. AWLN’s primary aim is to enhance women’s leadership across all diverse backgrounds for the transformation of Africa into a peaceful and inclusive continent. Currently, there are 31 national chapter including Ghana.

AWLN anchors its action in six pillars, which are:

  • Political Participation
  • Peace and Security
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Young Women’s Leadership
  • Empowering Rural Women
  • Social Mobilization

Vision

A peaceful and transformed Africa informed by the quantitative and qualitative leadership of women.

Aim

The primary aim of AWLN is to enhance women’s leadership across all diverse backgrounds for the transformation of Africa into a peaceful and inclusive continent.

 

Values

a) Inclusivity: Be comprised of a diverse range of women, including young women in leadership, from all sectors of society including the political, public, and private sectors, civil society, women’s rights organisations and grassroots levels.

b) Solidarity: Work for solidarity among African women, recognizing that the struggle for gender equality demands working with and across our various constituencies and thematic interests.

c) Empowerment: Work for, and be guided by, the provision of the requisite legal, institutional, and practical frameworks/means for women and girls to access the resources and opportunities they require to develop and realize their full leadership potential.

d) Partnership and local ownership: Cultivate strategic partnerships with existing emerging networks, including regional African and global networks with similar objectives; and amongst leaders with impact at local levels and sizable participation of women in communities they represent.

e) Integrity: hold women to the highest standards of ethical leadership and accountability in our membership, programmes and partnership building.