About the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's nongovernmental organisations through communications, networking, training and advocacy so as to advance women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa. FEMNET aims to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs focusing on women's development, equality and other human rights. It also aims to provide an infrastructure for and a channel through which these NGOs can reach one another and share information, experiences and strategies to as to improve their input into women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa. FEMNET is governed by a Constitution and the following governance and administrative structure: * national focal points focal point n. See focus. in African countries whose representatives attend a tri-annual programming conference and General Assembly; * an elected 12 member Executive Board which includes two Board members per sub-region. In addition, there are two Ex-Officio Board members (the immediate past Chairperson chairperson Chairman The head of an academic department. See 'Chair.', Cf Chief. and the Executive Director); * an elected seven member Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. to oversee FEMNET's assets; and * a Secretariat which implements FEMNET's programmes and is headed by an Executive Director. FEMNET's specific objectives include: * exchanging experiences in planning, implementing and evaluating women's programmes and projects through interaction with NGOs, development agencies and relevant regional and international intergovernmental in·ter·gov·ern·men·tal adj. Being or occurring between two or more governments or divisions of a government. in bodies; * promoting women's activities in Africa through the strengthening of existing organisations and the establishment of new ones as may be needed; * playing vanguard and catalytic roles in the treatment of feminist issues which cannot be handled by government gender mechanisms due to the threat that such issues pose to patriarchal pa·tri·ar·chal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch. 2. Of or relating to a patriarchy: a patriarchal social system. 3. states; * promoting the better utilisation of African women's NGOs by development agencies and regional and international intergovernmental organisations such as the AU and the various UN agencies; * mobilising resources for African women's development, equality and other women's human rights by local, regional and international sources; and enabling collective action by African women's movements women's movement: see feminism; woman suffrage. women's movement Diverse social movement, largely based in the U.S., seeking equal rights and opportunities for women in their economic activities, personal lives, and politics. in order to tackle regional gender issues. Since its inception in 1988, FEMNET has played a leadership role for African women's NGOs at regional and international decisionmaking and policy fora. FEMNET works in three main programme areas: Advocacy, Training and Communications. For more information please contact: African Women's Development and Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. (FEMNET) Off Westlands road P O Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya. TeE (254) 2 3741301/20 Fax: (254) 2 3742927 E-mail: admin@femnet.or.ke Website www.femnet.or.ke Reseau ré·seau or re·seau n. pl. réseaus or réseaux 1. A net or mesh foundation for lace. 2. Astronomy de Developpement et de Communications pour les Femmes Africaines (FEMNET) Le Reseau de Developpement et de Communications pour les Femmes Africaines (FEMNET) a ete cree en 1988. Cette organisation se proposait au depart de partager, entre les organisations non gouvernementales axees sur la promotion de la femme La Femme is a women-only beach in Marina, Egypt which caters to Muslims who want to swim in comfort away from prying and prurient view of "men and cameras". External links
[1] , les informations, les experiences, les idees et les strategies parmi les organisations non gouvernementales feminines africaines (ONG ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale ONG Organización No Gubernamental ONG Organização Não-Governamental (Brazil) ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa (Italian) ) au moyen des communications, de la gestion des reseaux, de la formation et de la sensibilisation, dans le but de promouvoir l'emancipation de la femme, I'egalite entre les sexes et d'autres droits humains reconnus aux femmes en Afrique. L'objectif primordial primordial /pri·mor·di·al/ (pri-mor´de-al) primitive. pri·mor·di·al adj. 1. Being or happening first in sequence of time; primary; original. 2. de FEMNET est egalement de renforcer le role et la contribution des ONG africaines essentiellement orientees sur l'emancipation de la femme, I'egalite entre les sexes et sur d'autres droits humains dont les femmes sont censees jouir en Afrique. Parmi les visees du Reseau figurent aussi blen la creation d'une instance de concertation et d'une structure formelle a travers lesquelles ces organisations non gouvernementales peuvent se retrouver et partager les elements d'information, les donnees d'experience et les differentes strategies permettant de renforcer leurs contributions a l'emancipation de la femme, a l'egalite entre les hommes et les Femmes et a la reconnaissance aux femmes africaines le droit Le Droit (established on March 27, 1913) is a Canadian daily newspaper, published in Ottawa, Canada and is operated by Gesca since 2000. History The newspaper was launched at that period as a tool to condemn Bill 17, an Ontario legislation that abolished education a la jouissance Jou´is`sance n. 1. Jollity; merriment. d'autres droits humains. FEMNET est regi par des statuts, des organes directeurs et une structure de gestion administrative qui se presentent comme suit : * Des organes de coordination nationale (points focaux) au niveau des pays africains dont les representants participent aux conferences de programmation, ainsi qu'a l'Assemblee Generale qui slegent tous les trois ans; * Un Conseil Executif elu, compose com·pose v. com·posed, com·pos·ing, com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form: de 11 membres parmi lesquels deux membres elus par sous--region, et une Presidente. Le Conseil Executif compte egalement deux membres de droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right. Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation. , cooptes sur la base de leurs attributions au sein de l'Organisation, la Presidente sortante et la Directrice Executive ; * Un Conseil de gestion compose de sept membres charges de la surveillance du patrimoine de FEMNET; et * Un secretariat dirige par la Directrice Executive et charge de l'application des programmes de FEMNET. Les objectifs specifiques de FEMNET comportent : * Le partage des experiences en matiere de planification, de mise en ceuvre et d'evaluation de projets et des programmes des femmes dans Le cadre (company) CADRE - The US software engineering vendor which merged with Bachman Information Systems to form Cayenne Software in July 1996. precis des echanges avec les ONG, les institutions specialisees en developpement et les organismes regionaux, internationaux et intergouvernementaux appropries; * La promotion des activites des femmes en Afrique en renforcant le pouvoir des organisations existantes et en en creant de nouvelles le case echeant; * La determination a jouer les roles d'avant-garde et de principal initiateur des solutions des problemes feministes qui echappent au controle des mecanismes institutionnels charges de la promotion de la femme a cause de la menace que ces problemes font peser sur les systemes politico-administratifs d'inspiration patriarcale; * La promotion d'une meilleure exploitation des ONG des femmes africaines par les institutions chargees des questions de developpement, des organisations regionales, internationales et intergouvernementales telles que I'OUA et les differentes institutions specialisees des Nations Unles ; * La mobilisation n. 1. Mobilization. Noun 1. mobilisation - act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action; "mobilization of the country's economic resources" mobilization , par diverses sources locales regionales et internationales de financement, des ressources indispensables pour l'emancipation de la femme, I'egalite entre la femme et l'homme et pour d'autres droits humains reconnus a la femme africaine; la promotion, par des associations feminines, des initiatives collectives destinees a aborder les questions regionales traitant de la condition feminine; Depuis sa creation en 1988, FEMNET a dirige les ONG des femmes africaines aux arenes regionales et internationales de prise de decision et de formulation des politiques. Le travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460. 3. de FEMNET est axe dans trois programmes essentiels, a savoir : le plaidoyer, la formation et les communications. Pour plus d'informations, priere de contacter : African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) Off Westlands road, P. O. Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: +254 2 3741301/20 Fax: +254 2 3742927 E-mail: admin@femnet.or.ke Website www.femnet.or.ke |
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