Exploring Feminist Approaches to Financing for Development – AFMA Report 2024
The African Feminist Macroeconomy Academy (AFMA) is a dynamic platform that gathers African feminist practitioners, women’s rights organizations, feminist movements, and researchers across Africa to strengthen their capacity, foster knowledge, and promote advocacy for women’s economic justice and rights. Over the years, FEMNET and its partners have made significant strides in advocating for women’s economic autonomy, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset in 2020. However, there remains an urgent need to integrate feminist perspectives into analyzing macroeconomic policies including but not limited to trade policies, care economy, as well as monetary and fiscal policy. These critical economic components largely influence women’s lived experiences across the continent.
Since 2017, AFMA has been a crucial learning and exchange platform, supporting African women’s movements and women’s rights activists in challenging and dismantling structural barriers that hinder gender equality. Through structured learning events, AFMA targets activists, movement leaders, academics, journalists, and members of diverse networks working towards women’s rights, economic justice, and broader gender equality goals. AFMA aims to deepen participants’ appreciation of how macroeconomic policies directly shape women’s lives and explore how grassroots efforts can transform these policies. Additionally, AFMA generates research that informs advocacy, ensuring that feminist economic analyses are continually tied to the broader goal of influencing policymaking at national and international levels.
