Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme

Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme

The Africa Liberal Network Women Leadership Programme is a training initiative that aims to strengthen the capacity of active women in politics as well as foster their engagement in political and civic leadership at local, national, and international levels. The program focuses on engaging ALN Members parties and decision-makers to support women in advancing to higher levels within political structures.

By empowering women and political parties, the program aims to enhance their impact on democracy, responsive governance, and gender-balanced representation in leadership roles. The initiative includes targeted career guidance and life coaching to evolve the capacity of women leaders, enabling them to generate effective policy proposals.

Starting in 2019, the programme ultimately strives to promote gender-balanced representation and responsive governance in Africa.

Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme

Managed by the Africa Liberal Network (ALN) with the support of Liberal International, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Liberal Democrats, VVD International, D66 International and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

The Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme supports the advocacy of the UN Women, seeks to resuscitate the objectives outlined in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), commits to the ideals of the Beijing Declaration and advocates to advance the objectives of the Africa Liberal Network’s Nairobi 2017 Declaration.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for the Africa Liberal Network, thus the network launched the Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme, in collaboration with our member parties and strategic partners.

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Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme

Managed by the Africa Liberal Network (ALN) with the support of Liberal International, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for freedom, the Liberal Democrats, VVD International, D66 International and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Diversity and inclusion is a priority for the Africa Liberal Network, thus the network launched the Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme, in collaboration with our member parties and strategic partners.

The Africa Liberal Women Empowerment Programme is pursued as a two (2) pronged approach regional empowerment programme for women and the political parties they are members of.

Statement of Work: Promoting participatory democracy through women inclusion.

Women: these are eligible members of political parties, in good standing. They are candidates intending to contest an internal position within their political party’s national decision-making structure, like the Federal (National) Executive. They can also be intending to contest a representative role in public office in a local or national government structure, like the city council, county assembly, constituency leader and member of parliament. They can also be intending to contest elected executive decision roles within regional organisations and institutions. All applicants to the programme are endorsed by the respective political party federal (national) leader, chairperson, president of the federal (national) secretary-general. All endorsements are agreements that the programme application is a representative of her political party in the programme.

Political party: all political parties of successful applicants are automatically successful to benefit from the programme. These are political parties that value human rights, the inclusion and support of women, gender parity and the impact that these principles have on the nature and levels of women’s participation in active politics and leadership in general. The political parties benefit from strategic workshops with international and qualified knowledge experts in the fields of including and supporting more women in decision making, election campaign strategies,
micro and macro prospect voter targeting, communication & marketing and exclusive fundraising & networking.

What participants and political parties gain from the programme:

Objective 1: To equip and develop active women to engage in political and civic leaders across all sectors at the local, national and international levels. To encourage and enable women to contribute their views and vision in an informed, effective and meaningful way.

Objective 2: To engage inclusive political parties and their leading decision-makers.

Support active women to advance to their next level: the programme empowers women and political parties to play a more impactful role in their nation’s efforts to stabilise democracy and evolve responsive governance;

Encourage women leaders: the programme aims to empower active women to ascend to decision-making portfolios in order to bring in diverse perspectives at decision-making platforms and to aim at improving gender-balanced representation in political party leadership structures and in legislatures (public office);

Evolve the capacity of women leaders: through targeted career guidance and life coaching, the programme invests in the women’s natural talents and unique abilities to generate effective and sustainable policy proposals and monitor their inputs and implementation;

Initiate a link between political party candidate selection processes and programme alumni: through the programme, initiate a bridge to negotiate policies and structural processes for candidate selection within inclusive political parties.

What participants and political parties gain from the programme:

Objective 1: To equip and develop active women to engage in political and civic leaders across all sectors at the local, national and international levels. To encourage and enable women to contribute their views and vision in an informed, effective and meaningful way.

Objective 2: To engage inclusive political parties and their leading decision-makers.

Support active women to advance to their next level: the programme empowers women and political parties to play a more impactful role in their nation’s efforts to stabilise democracy and evolve responsive governance;

Encourage women leaders: the programme aims to empower active women to ascend to decision-making portfolios in order to bring in diverse perspectives at decision-making platforms and to aim at improving gender-balanced representation in political party leadership structures and in legislatures (public office);

Evolve the capacity of women leaders: through targeted career guidance and life coaching, the programme invests in the women’s natural talents and unique abilities to generate effective and sustainable policy proposals and monitor their inputs and implementation;

Initiate a link between political party candidate selection processes and programme alumni: through the programme, initiate a bridge to negotiate policies and structural processes for candidate selection within inclusive political parties.

• Championing Liberal policy solutions to Africa’s challenges;

• Capacitating Liberal Democratic member parties with innovative skills, necessary to win elections and lead governments;

Providing a platform for like-minded advocates of good governance, to network and share experience, skills and ideas;

All members of the network are bound by statutory obligations affirming allegiance to ensure the freedoms and dignity of all people, through establishing political and civil rights, upholding the rule of law, supporting democratic governance based on free and fair elections with peaceful transition, ensuring religious, gender and minority rights, fighting corruption and supporting economic freedom, regional integration and free trade opportunities, like the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).