African Women's Leadership Institute - Africa

The institute serves as a network of young African women between the ages of 25-40, providing personal and professional support. It offers advice and shares expertise and information. AWLI provides regional, sub-regional and national leadership training programmes. The institute convenes at an annual three-week regional residential leadership-training institute in Africa and at one -week sub-regional and one-week national meeting throughout the year.

AWLI holds national and sub regional leadership development workshops. The programme organisers believe that through the successful organisation of the workshops, they are continuing with their strategic objective of providing young women working in various organisations in Africa with opportunities for leadership development.

AWLI Activities are:

• Organising the annual regional residential institute
• Arranging occasional sub-regional and national leadership programmes
• Supporting institute graduates in running training programmes in organisational skills and development of women in their own communities
• Publishing a newsletter three times a year to link institute participants and other interested parties
• Publishing policy briefing papers and occasional research documents on gender, development and analysis in Africa.

Development Issues
Women, Gender

The ultimate goal of the AWLI is to encourage and train women for informed positions that will ultimately promote a progressive African women's development agenda. "The development of a feminist constituency among the next generation of African women leaders is essential to the future of the African women's movement."

AWLI objectives are to:

• Develop the leadership potential of young African women are committed to a progressive women's movement in Africa
• Provide leadership training for young African women are already in leadership positions in women's NGOs, mixed NGOs, government institutions or the private sector
• Empower African women living in fundamentally patriarchal communities with self-development and life skills training
• § Initiate a forum in which young women can meet and build alliances for individual and professional support
• Develop a mentoring and role modelling system in order to benefit from the knowledge, skills and expertise of older women
• Strengthen existing national and regional networks through networking and solidarity and sustain links with the international women's movement
• Improve the quality of gender analysis and research coming out of Africa, and give African women more access to international publishing

Partners
Akina Mama wa Africa(AMwA)