Partnering for Change: Movement Building in the 21st Century, Nairobi (Kenya)

At the Seventh World Social Forum in Nairobi, Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) will present an interactive panel and dialogue with women’s rights activists from Africa and the Middle East who will discuss strategies to strengthen social movements, particularly the women’s movement, in an era of crisis for civic organizing. Efforts to achieve gender equality, human rights, and social justice are being increasingly challenged by rising extremism and fundamentalism, wars and conflict, poverty, and violence. Activists are overcoming these barriers by working together to devise innovative, context-relevant strategies that will transform power relations and dynamics with the family, community, and society.

The event will include the premier of `Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis`, a new 25-minute video released by Women’s Learning Partnership that showcases the perspectives of activists from around the world including Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, and Lebanon. They discuss the ways and means of strengthening women’s movements by building alliances, sharing inter-generational experience and expertise, and developing culture-specific, grassroots-based approaches to empowering women and girls.

Panelists:
Asma Khader, General Coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan (SIGI/J)
Sindi Medar-Gould, Executive Director of BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights in Nigeria