East and Southern Africa Regional Learning Hub for the Women’s Voice and Leadership Learning Partnership

This project is part of the Women’s Voice and Leadership Learning Partnership, a five-year initiative with Global Affairs Canada that accompanies the renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) program to enhance the efforts and impacts of more than 2,200 women’s rights organizations, LGBTQI+ groups and feminist movements. In East and Southern Africa, the renewed WVL presence is composed of seven projects, all of which will participate in this project.

The East and Southern Africa Learning Hub is anchored in a vision of feminist learning that places local expertise, lived experience and community-driven knowledge at its centre. It aims to deepen the effectiveness, resilience and influence of feminist movements by creating accessible and inclusive learning spaces where partners can share experiences, compare strategies and make sense of regional trends. The hub intends to be grounded in the principle that those closest to the challenges are best placed to generate the solutions when supported to document and share their lived realities.

Based on feminist values of solidarity, care and shared power, the Regional Learning Hub will function as a space where women’s rights organizations, LGBTQI+ groups and feminist movements that are part of the renewed WVL program can learn from each other, generate evidence grounded in their realities and strengthen their collective capacity to respond to backlash and advance gender justice. The anticipated outcome is a more connected, confident and resilient feminist ecosystem in East and Southern Africa able to learn collectively, use evidence for advocacy and influence change.