As the IMF and World Bank gather for their 2026 #AnnualMeetings in Bangkok, we are bringing the realities behind their economic policies to the centre of the conversation. For more than 80 years, the IMF and World Bank have shaped economic policies that determine who has access to healthcare, education, decent work, food, public services and care, and who bears the cost when these systems are cut. Economics does not operate in an abstract space. It determines who gets medication, who gets education, whose knowledge is superior, whose work gets paid, who gets to have credits over another’s livelihood, and whose social relations become the norm. Through our campaign themed “Our Realities and Lives Are Not Your Budget Item,” we hope to bring together our feminist thought that has been challenging the continued use of austerity, debt conditionalities, wage-bill cuts and underinvestment in public services. As feminists, we are here to reiterate that our lives are not your budget item. ✡️Why now? 80+ years of failed economic policies with the "Grandmother’s IMF" is still cooking with the same failed recipe. ✡️Our power: Collective feminist action creates change and demands a feminist reset. ✡️Our role: Every action, big or small, contributes to the movement and the court of history. Campaign partners: @social_rights , @eurodad , @MenaFem , @FemnetProg , @NawiAfrica , @debtjustice, WEDO, AWGC, Action Aid Intlz #OurLivesNotBudgetItems #FeministEconomicJustice #FeministClimateJustice #MakePollutersPay #TheFaceOfAusterity #IMFWB2026 #StopAusterity

The 2026 #AnnualMeetings mark over 80 years of the Bretton Woods institutions that continue to shape economic policies that directly affect women’s lives, the magnitude of their care work, access to basic public services, and even who lives and who dies. Years of advocacy have influenced these institutions to recognise the need for gender equality. However, this recognition comes not from a rights perspective but from the calculation that such equality will improve growth without truly addressing gendered impacts. As we prepare for our session at the #AnnualMeetings on 15th October 2026, we share our policy brief on Feminist Pathways Towards a Fairer Global Tax Order, which provides background on the UN Framework on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC), the gender dimensions of international tax injustice, and how the UNFCITC can advance gender equality. Read the full brief here: akinamamawaafrika.org/wp-con…

Every year on 28th  September, feminist movements, health practitioners, legal experts, and activists across the world come together to mobilise for the decriminalisation of abortion and universal access to safe, legal, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare by commemorating International Safe Abortion Day. This year’s theme is “Solidarity in Action: Advance Reproductive Justice and Urgently Strengthen Health Systems for Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC).” To commemorate the day, Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) invites you for a webinar convening under the theme: "Building on the Foundations of Article 14 of the Maputo Protocol" to strengthen legal literacy, public narrative, and collective action to advance access to safe abortion and reproductive justice for African women and girls in all their diversities. Bringing together legal experts, feminist advocates, storytellers, and SRHR practitioners, this webinar will interrogate the legal narrative and political terrain shaping access to safe abortion in Africa. Date: 23rd September 2026 Time: 2:00 pm EAT Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

COP30 in Belém, Brazil, marked an important step in advancing gender-responsive climate action by adopting the Belém Gender Action Plan (GAP). A nine-year framework that sets out 27 activities to advance gender-responsive climate action under the UNFCCC through 2034. It explicitly recognises structurally excluded groups, mandates guidelines to protect women environmental defenders, creates entry points to address care work and violence against women, and strengthens coherence across UNFCCC bodies. #GlobalWeekofActon #ThisWorldIsOurs #ActOntheBelemGAP #FeministClimateJustice #FeministFuturesNow

Day Two of the #WeaversForum2026 found our weavers hungry for more learning, unlearning and relearning. Through various breakout sessions, our weavers unpacked conversations around; ✴Indigenous women's reparative economies of care, memory and sovereignty. ✴Care, labour and social reproduction across paid, unpaid, formal, informal, and digital work ✴ Debt, tax and economic sovereignty Each weaver carries a wealth of herstories, insights and the tenacity needed to weave vibrant African feminist futures that challenge the status quo. 📍: Windhoek, Namibia 📆: 5th - 8th August 2026 Co-convened by: Akina Mama wa Afrika, @NawiAfrica and @FemnetProg #FeministPoliticalEconomy #Femonomics

The countdown is on! ⏳ In just a few days, we gather in Windhoek to weave bold ideas, collective power and African Feminist futures beyond macroeconomics. @NawiAfrica, @FemnetProg and Akina Mama wa Afrika are thrilled to host our feminist weavers. 📍Windhoek, Namibia 🗓️5-8 August 2026 #WeaversForum #AfricanFeminism #FeministPoliticalEconomy #Femonomics

As week 2 of the #CSW70 unfolds, Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) invites you to this session titled: "Power, Money & Justice: How Global financial and multilateral systems shape women's rights." Our speakers will share evidence-based learning and the lived experiences of women and the women’s rights movements in the global South. The conversation aims to share concrete policy recommendations on the need to dismantle these hindering structures for the achievement of freedom, justice and gender equality. 🗓️Date: 16th March 2026 ⏲️Time: 2:30 - 4:00pm EDT 📍Venue: Church Centre for the United Nations (CCUN), 11th Floor 🔗Register For virtual participation: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

Have you ever wondered what the role of the current international financial architectural structures is and its influence on policies? How debt, tax and austerity impact women’s ability to realise their rights and mobilise to demand long lasting change? Join us at #CSW70 for a session titled: "Power, Money & Justice: How Global financial and multilateral systems shape Women's Right." 🗓️Date: 16th March 2026 ⏲️Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT 📍Venue: Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN), 11th Floor 🔗Virtual Registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

Will you be at attending #CSW70 in New York? Join us for a session on "Power, Money & Justice: How Global Financial and Multilateral Systems Shape Women’s Rights." Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) will be co-convening this discussion with @christianaid, @RNMColombia and Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico to: ❎Examine how the historic and current global financial architecture and multilateral systems impact women’s human rights and access to justice from the global South. ❎Center lived realities of the global south women from different sectors and how global financial architecture and multilateral systems are impacting their human rights and access to justice. ❎Reiterate the importance of reforms in the current global financial architecture and multilateral systems, recognising the importance of global women’s participation in key decisions at all levels. 🗓️16th March, 2026 ⏰2:30 – 4:30 pm 📍CCUN, 11th Floor 🔗Sign up on this link: bit.ly/3N7a8Zg

Tricia Abwooli, our Economic Justice and Climate Action Associate, highlights the urgent need to build solidarity across the African continent in shaping a financial architecture that truly reflects fiscal justice. @ActionaidSN @S_active2022 @afao_wawa @FemnetProg @SEATINIUGANDA @Oxfam @AFRODAD2011 @endalead

As AMwA, we engaged with the Pact for the Future because we believe it could kickstart the post-2030 agenda, one informed by the successes and lessons of the 2030 Agenda, but also honest about today’s poly-crises. Although we had hoped for stronger commitments on the feminist alternatives we have been advancing, bodily autonomy, climate justice, financing what truly works for women and girls in their diversity, and the right to development in the Global South, these remain gaps in the Pact. And that is exactly the work before us: to keep pushing until these feminist visions are no longer seen as optional add-ons, but as the very foundation of how we imagine and build the future. For Africa and for the women and girls of Africa, the pact for the future must become a living framework of reparatory justice, debt justice, and gender justice. It must repair yesterday, invest in today, and give us a tomorrow we can truly call ours. #UNGA80 #FeministEconomics

Eunice Musiime- Executive Director, Akina Mama wa Afrika. The Pact for the Future presents another opportunity for Africa to turn Promises into Action and turbocharge the SDGs. As Akina Mama wa Afrika, we do believe that global frameworks do matter and have a role to play. From the Beijing Declaration to the SDGs, every framework was considered transformative. Yet over the years, progress remains dismal, especially for African citizens, women, and girls who carry the brunt of poverty, debt, conflict, and climate shocks. We recognise that Africa has its own Agenda 2063, which provides a blueprint for our development pathway. In the development of the Pact for the Future, the African voice and aspirations were not adequately represented. To ensure that the Pact delivers on its promises, implementation and review for Africa, these critical areas must be addressed: ❇️Reparatory justice. ❇️Debt justice. ❇️Militarisation and Democracy ❇️Care as a political issue. #UNGA80

‘What do African women want?’ Juliet Nangamba highlights key feminist demands and propositions on the climate crisis that include a systems change to enable the change that needs to happen. Juliet serves as the Acting Lead for Economic Justice and Climate Action at Akina Mama wa Afrika and co-chairs the ACS2 Gender Cluster.

Highlights from #BonnConference2025: Today marked the start of gender negotiations after a 3-day workshop reviewing the previous Gender Action Plan (GAP). The goal? A bold, well-resourced plan with clear implementation paths. 🧵

If we can’t feed ourselves, can we truly say we are free? 🌾✊🏿 This Africa Liberation Week 2025, AMwA joins the chorus of Pan-African feminist voices to ask: What does true liberation look like if we cannot feed ourselves? On 22nd May, from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EAT, we invite you to a virtual dialogue with feminist organizers, farmers, agroecologists, policy influencers, and food justice movements across the continent. Together, we will unpack the deep intersections between African food systems and our liberation. For generations, African women have fed the continent—yet colonial dispossession, corporate capture, land grabs, and extractive systems have robbed us of our agency. Through this dialogue and campaign, AMwA will amplify an intersectional feminist response to reclaim our land, seed, kitchens, markets, and knowledge. This space is about radical imagination, community strategy, and feminist resistance. It's a call to action: to reframe food justice as part of our generational liberation project. Join us! 📅 Date: Wednesday, 22nd May 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EAT 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/437ks95 #AfricaLiberationWeek #FoodSovereignty #FeministResistance #AMwA #PanAfricanFeminism #FoodJustice #DecolonizeOurPlates #AfricanLiberation

Did you know? Climate change is reshaping how care is organised—and women bear the heaviest burden. To address the critical intersections of climate justice, tax justice, and gender equity, Akina Mama wa Afrika invites you to a vital conversation as part of the Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights under the theme: 💡"Progressive Taxation for an Inclusive and Just Social Organisation of Care." This session will uncover the hidden connections between climate justice, tax justice, and gender equity, while exploring how progressive taxation can help build fair, inclusive, and resilient care systems. ⏳ Don’t miss out—this is a conversation we can’t afford to delay! 📢 Register now! ➡️ bit.ly/4iYrdyV #FeministTaxJustice #GDOA #ClimateJustice #TaxJustice #CareEconomy @EssiaGUEZZI @Kanywamate_ @MatuiMaria @SouthSouthNorth @OxfaminAfrica @FemnetProg