African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).

• Position: About 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 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advocacy so as to advance women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa.

FEMNET's 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's specific objectives include:

* exchanging experiences in planning, implementing and evaluating women's programmes and projects

* 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

* promoting the better utilisation of African women's NGOs by development agencies and regional and international intergovernmental organisations such as the OAU 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 in order to tackle regional gender issues.

FEMNET works in three main programme areas: Advocacy, Communications, and Training.

Le Reseau de Developpement et de Communications de la Femme Africaines (FEMNET)

Le Reseau de Developpement et de Communications de la Femme Africaine (FEMNET) a ete institute en 1988 clans le but de partager des informations, des experiences, des idees. et des strategies parmi les femmes africaines des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) par le moyen des communications, La gestion de reseau, Ia formation et le plaidoyer, et afin d'avancer l'emancipation, l'egalite et d'autres droits humains des femmes en Afrique.

Le but de FEMNET est de reforcer le role et la contribution des ONG africaines mettant l'accent...