WoMin is a Pan-African ecofeminist alliance which:

• - Works with women activists, communities, organisations, and movements to make visible and publicize the impacts of extractives on women and their communities,
• - Supports movement building and solidarity efforts to stop destructive mega projects, and
• - Works to support women to dream of and campaign for an African, ecologically-just, women-centered alternative to the dominant destructive model of development.

VISION

WoMin’s vision is of an Africa in which all women have secure access to the resources they, their families, and communities need for life and livelihood, and an Africa in which all women can exercise full control over their bodies and development choices.

MISSION

Their mission is to support women’s organising and to build a movement aimed at challenging the destructive large-scale extraction of natural resources and to propose developmental alternatives that respond to the needs of the majority of African women.

STRATEGY

In the coming five years, WoMin will continue to focus its efforts on supporting women impacted by destructive development projects in 13 African countries. They will work with African women activists and allies to expose the costs of this current development model and co-create and promote transformative ecofeminist alternatives.  

ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

They support localised resistance to fossil fuel extraction and mega- energy projects and, in partnership with organisations across the continent, work to put forward a radical Pan African climate justice agenda.

CONSENT RIGHTS FOR WOMEN

In continuously striving to ensure African women have secure access to all the resource that women, their families, and communities need, they focus on improving their well-being and securing their livelihoods. They dream of an Africa in which all women can exercise full control over their bodies, their lives, and their developmental choices.

GUNS, POWER, AND POLITICS – extractivism and violence against women

WoMin will continue its efforts to evidence the relationship between extractivist development, militarisation, securitisation, and VAW; support affected women deal with the trauma of violence; and search for justice, defined on women’s terms. They will also support risk analysis, strategies, and responses in all of the key sites of struggle we are linked to, and they will address the same threats in our regional and continental campaigns for climate justice and Right to Say NO.

BUILDING, RECOGNISING AND ADVANCING DEVELOPMENTAL ALTERNATIVES

In the next strategy period, they will uncover, build, and advance African ecofeminist development alternatives to destructive extractivism, growing and strengthening new and dynamic ideas of the Just Transition from an African ecofeminist perspective.