Nawi Afrifem Collective

Building a community of PanAfrican feminists working to deconstruct and reconstruct Macro level economic policies.

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

What happens when we look at the economy through the eyes of those who sustain it? 🔎

"Thinking Care and Social Reproduction" by Lyn Ossome suggests it’s time to stop treating care as an "extra" & start seeing it as the foundation of our economy.

📖Read https://t.co/YjfoHgYgSC

[Akina Mama wa Afrika @amwaafrika]

In this letter series, Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) invited African feminist economists, activists, and rights bearers to write directly to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, confronting the realities behind their economic prescriptions. From austerity, debt and taxation to privatisation, shrinking public services and the invisible burden of unpaid care, these letters expose the human cost of economic policies and demand a different vision of development.

These are not simply letters of complaint. They are interventions, challenges and demands for economic justice. Our message is clear: Africa's development cannot be built on women's exhaustion, communities' sacrifices and people's diminishing ability to live with dignity.

Read the letters: https://t.co/kP1xQjlK0P

#OurLivesNotBudgetItems #FeministEconomicJustice #FeministClimateJustice #MakePollutersPay #TheFaceOfAusterity #IMFWB2026 #StopAusterity

[Gender and Trade Coalition @GenderandTrade]

As activists, how can we organize effectively in the face of “free-trade feminism”?

Join us for an online conversation with the authors of the newly published book "A Feminist Political Economy of Trade," Adrienne Roberts & Silke Trommer.

Register here➡️ https://t.co/ZtjJe5H7JQ

[Hali Yetu Collective @haliyetu_col]

☀️ MEMBERS DAY ☀️

🛖 Our spotlight feature of the month is @NawiAfrica who bring onboard a Pan-African feminist lens ensuring regional integration, governance & economic policies center lives & rights of African women

🔗 Learn more about the collective: https://t.co/C2ND56RPz1

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

Honoured to stand in solidarity with the @haliyetu_col ✊🏿✨

Building just and equitable futures for East Africa requires centering African women's voices, labor, and economic rights at every level of governance. Proud to be convening this vital work together! 🌍💜

[Hali Yetu Collective @haliyetu_col]

☀️ MEMBERS DAY ☀️

🛖 Our spotlight feature of the month is @NawiAfrica who bring onboard a Pan-African feminist lens ensuring regional integration, governance & economic policies center lives & rights of African women

🔗 Learn more about the collective: https://t.co/C2ND56RPz1

[Hali Yetu Collective @haliyetu_col]

📢 Introducing...

✨ Hali Yetu Collective: "Our Condition, our situation."

A new regional platform for research, reflection & conversation on East Africa's future, convened by 8 CSOs.

✨ Read more about the collective: https://t.co/sB1fC5XTwk

#HaliYetu #VoicesOfEA

[FEMNET @FemnetProg]

Hali Yetu: "Our condition, our situation."
A new regional platform for research, reflection and conversation on East Africa's future, convened by eight civil society organisations.
Understanding our condition. Imagining our futures.
🔗https://t.co/kfapEV1m62
#HaliYetu #VoicesOfEA #EastAfrica

[Akina Mama wa Afrika @amwaafrika]

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

[FEMNET @FemnetProg]

🧵What if “second-hand” isn’t the whole story?

Africa’s textile economies sit at the intersection of livelihoods, culture, trade, environmental waste, and economic power. So, who really gets to keep the value?

Here we explore these questions through a feminist political economy lens in “The Second Life Myth.”

Read: https://t.co/PO5osZgA0W

#WeaversForum2026
#Femonomics
#TradeTuesdays

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

Read the blueprint for digital liberation. 📖

Najjuuko Joanitta’s latest journal with @SID_International, "Digitalization and the Future of Work," is officially live. It’s a toolkit for reclaiming our data, bodies, and futures.

🔗 https://t.co/qUGOth5GiT

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

The digital economy will no longer be built on our silence.

Tomorrow is #LabourDay, but for African women, "labour" doesn’t end when the laptop closes. It’s time to make the invisible, visible. 🧵 (1/3)

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

Behind "seamless" platforms lies a hidden foundation of ghost work and unpaid care.

We are done with the "glossy rhetoric" of tech progress that leaves us exhausted and undervalued. We are reimagining a future built on equity and collective well-being. (2/3)

[WoMin African Alliance @WoMin_Africa]

📰📢𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 - we celebrate #EarthDay with the publication of a joint policy brief with GAGGA & spotlight the inaugural African Women's Climate Justice Day 🌍
Read more 👉https://t.co/nVsDmGN5Hd
🖊️Subscribe & share widely ✊🌱

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

🚩Myth: Informal trade is "unorganized" and contributes little to GDP.

✅ Reality: Petty commodity trade is a highly organized feminist survival strategy that sustains millions of households across the continent.

[Nawi Afrifem Collective @Nawi_Collective]

Trade isn't just for billionaires and big corporations. 🌍✨

In her paper for Nawi, @hibist , PhD dives into the world of Petty Commodity Trade, the lifeblood of our communities that is too often dismissed as 'informal' or 'small.'

🔗Full paper here https://t.co/cDEKeze0VE

[Azadi Community @AzadiCommunity]

Hello Friends,

Meet @AzadiCommunity , our partners, and young feminists at the @WomenDeliver 2026 Conference

We will be showing up to advocate for safe, inclusive communities where survivors can heal, lead and claim their agency,

[Akina Mama wa Afrika @amwaafrika]

Yesterday we commemorated the World Earth Day under the theme: "Our Power, Our Planet". As African Feminist Climate Justice Actors, we are reminded that the climate crisis is a social justice struggle and that our climate action should be approached as such.

As we address the climate crisis we must identify and acknowledge the root causes and effects of the climate crisis in order to promote solutions that center the most marginalized especially those in the Global South and calls for the re-imagination of usual gender mainstreaming strategies in our climate action. To do this, we are called to integrate feminist intersectional approaches, theories and principles.

Our Intersectional Feminist Climate justice Guide highlights initiatives and tools that can be adopted and applied by feminists, women rights organizations, climate justice advocates, environmentalists, and civil society organizations in climate justice advocacy and programming to significantly contribute to and shape the climate governance and decision-making processes from an African and Global South feminist perspective.

Read our Intersectional Feminist Climate Action Guide here: https://t.co/qe0cHnb9FS

[FEMNET @FemnetProg]

✨ We’re officially LIVE at #WD2026! 💫🌍

The energy is high, the conversations are bold, and FEMNET is right at the heart of it all! 💜

Join us at the Exhibition Hall, Booth No.G03 as we spark powerful discussions on feminist financing, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), and care-centred economies that put justice, equity, and people first.

This is more than a conference—it’s a movement. A space to connect, challenge, and co-create the future we deserve.
Together, we rise. Together, we transform. 💪🏾✨

#FEMNETatWD2026 #WomenDeliver2026

[Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) @GA4TJ]

@justiciafiscal @latindadd @DAWNfeminist @FemnetProg @ActionAid @FairTaxCanada @FACTCoalition @eurodad @AsianPeoplesMvt @WeAreTAFJA @NawiAfrica That’s a wrap on the 2026 Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights!

Feminists, tax justice advocates, and trade unionists demand #TaxJustice4Care!

Highlights from the campaign: https://t.co/3kRVoordF7
#MakeTaxesWorkForWomen

[Azadi Community @AzadiCommunity]

Hello Friends,

On this International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, we are reminded that ending #FGM is not a moment, it is a movement.
Towards 2030, there will be no end to FGM without sustained commitment & long-term investment: in girls’ bodily autonomy,

[Liberation Alliance Africa @LiberationAA]

Grateful to everyone who joined us this evening 💚

We’re pleased to unveil “A Kaleidoscope of Hope”—Liberation Alliance Africa’s Three-Year Strategic Plan.
Read it here:
https://t.co/S7hQucF02s

#LAAat3 #AKaleidoscopeOfHope