GIMAC Network

We extend our deepest gratitude to all our partners for their invaluable support in making the #42GIMAC a success. Your commitment, collaboration, and strategic engagement helped transform dialogue into direction and vision into actionable outcomes. Because of your partnership, we strengthened collective advocacy, amplified critical voices, and advanced our shared agenda for gender justice across Africa. This success belongs to all of us. Thank you for standing with us, for believing in the mission, and for continuously investing in a more inclusive and equitable Africa. Together, we move forward, stronger and more united. #GenderJustice @CanadaSudan @aphrc @AU_WGYD @_AfricanUnion

GIMAC Network is seeking a lead entity to design and deliver a comprehensive #Youth Capacity Building Program for AU‑CEVAWG advocacy. Train and mentor young leaders across Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal & Togo to drive evidence‑based action. Apply by 30 March 2026 👉👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1GXLzkD… @GimacYouth #AUCEVAWG #YouthLeadership #EndVAWG #GenderJustice

GIMAC Network is seeking a lead entity to conduct multi‑country stakeholder mapping for #AUCEVAWG advocacy. Help identify and analyze key #CSOs #academic #youth #advocacy actors in #Uganda #Ethiopia #Senegal #Togo. 👉Apply by 23 March 2026 drive.google.com/file/d/1VKttF7… #AUCEVAWG #EndVAWG #GenderJustice

GIMAC Network is seeking proposals to develop an open‑access #AUCEVAWG Sensitization Toolkit. Help make the #Convention accessible for advocates across Africa. Apply by 23 March 2026 → drive.google.com/file/d/1VKttF7… #AUCEVAWG #EndVAWG

Congratulations to H.E. Bineta Diop, Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité, Co-convener of African Women Leaders Network, on receiving the African Women Impact Award 2026. ✨ Through three decades of relentless advocacy, from displacement camps to the highest chambers of the African Union, she has helped reshape an entire continent's understanding of who belongs at the peace table. The answer has always been: women. Read the full story of this remarkable journey: 🔗 bineta-diop.com/a-life-of-impa… #WomenOfImpact #IWD2026 #BinetaDiop #FemmesAfricaSolidarité #AfricanWomenLeaders #WomenPeaceAndSecurity #30YearsOfImpact

On this International Women’s Day, we reaffirm that access to water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. Ensuring safe, dignified, and equitable access for every woman and girl is essential to achieving justice and sustainable development. Now is the time to turn commitments into action. 💧♀️ #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #GenderEquality #WaterIsAHumanRight #GIMAC

Under the theme “Rights, Justice, Action: For All Women and Girls,” we reject inequality as inevitable. Justice demands that we close opportunity gaps through deliberate action, expanding access, strengthening mentorship, and building pathways to leadership. #IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #BridgeTheGap

At the High-Level Dialogue on rethinking Africa’s financial model, Dr. Helen Kezie Nwoha, Chairperson of GIMAC, reaffirmed one clear message: We cannot finance development without financing gender justice. Her presentation of the GIMAC Recommendations emphasized: ✔️ Ring-fenced and flexible gender-responsive WASH financing ✔️ Dedicated climate windows for underserved & conflict-affected communities ✔️ Institutionalized women & youth leadership ✔️ Intersectional sex-disaggregated data ✔️ Gender-responsive budgeting & accountability frameworks From aid to impact means centering women, youth, and dignity in every financial decision. #GenderTransformativeWASH #GIMAC #AU

She concluded that governance reforms must institutionalise women’s and youth leadership through quotas, capacity building, and social accountability tools anchored in gender-responsive budgeting, disability-inclusive indicators, and safe sanitation for women and girls.

Dr. Nwoha further called for participatory, gender-justice research and routine, intersectional sex-disaggregated data to inform women- and youth-led solutions, with progress tracked through annual public reporting by the African Union Gender Observatory #AUSummit39

At the opening ceremony of the High-Level Dialogue, Dr. Helen Kezie Nwoha, @GimacNetwork Chairperson, presented recommendations from the just-ended 42nd GIMAC, calling for a bold, gender-transformative WASH agenda to advance dignity, safety, and inclusive development.

It was truly a delight for #GIMAC to participate in the High-Level Breakfast Meeting on Financing and Reaffirming Africa’s Gender Commitments at Skylight Hotel. GIMAC was represented by its Chairperson, Dr. Helen Kezie Nwoha, who carried forward the momentum and key recommendations from the just concluded 42nd GIMAC Consultative Meeting, ensuring that the voices, priorities, and demands of African women and girls are translated into concrete commitments, accountable financing, and measurable action. As conversations move from reaffirmation to resource allocation, GIMAC remains clear: gender equality commitments must be funded, institutionalized, and implemented. #GIMAC #GenderEquality #FinancingForGender #AU #WomenLead

At #42GIMAC, Mme Diop, Founding Member of GIMAC, shared her pride in seeing the movement grow into a continental force over 20+ years of advocacy for African women & girls. She urged women across generations to stay united and work together, the journey continues. ✊🏾✨

As GIMAC, sustaining this momentum means moving decisively from commitment to implementation. Building on the outcomes of the just-concluded ??#42GIMAC, we are focused on following through with concrete, actionable strategies that continue to shape and advance gender- and youth-inclusive priorities for sanitation and WASH across Africa, ensuring that policy decisions translate into measurable impact at community level.

“𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.” At the ECOSOCC–TrustAfrica High-Level Strategic Breakfast Meeting on the 2025 AU Theme of the Year, Dr. Martha Muhwezi, @FAWEAfrica Executive Director & GIMAC Network Co-Thematic Lead 2026 reminded us that justice moves when communities move. From women who crossed borders to be present, to youth and diaspora networks translating policy into people-centered advocacy, reparatory justice lives beyond dialogue. Healing, restitution, and accountability are not abstract ideals, they are collective demands rooted in solidarity. As GIMAC affirms, transformation begins when communities insist on justice. #42GIMAC #ECOSOCC #AUSummit39 #WASH #GenderJustice

📍 GIMAC at the ECOSOCC Pre Summit, held on the sidelines of the African Union Summit contributing to Session Three: Partnerships and Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Implementation. Dr Helen Kezie Nwoha, The GIMAC Chairperson, delivered a clear message. “We don’t lack frameworks; we lack coordination, inclusion, and sustained investment. Without civil society, especially women and women with disabilities, accountability cannot work“. GIMAC reaffirmed that breaking silos, centering non-state actors, and strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships are essential to translating the AU Theme of the Year 2026 on sustainable water and sanitation into real, measurable impact for women, girls, and communities. #42GIMAC #ECOSOCC #AUSummit39 #WASH #GenderJustice #Partnerships #Accountability

At #GIMAC42, Hon. Janet Ramatoulie Sallah-Njie @ACHPR_SRRWA called for a bold shift in 2026 from promises to action on water and sanitation. She reaffirmed them as human rights central to gender justice, urging rights-based policies, investment, and women’s leadership.

@BinetaDOfficial, former Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, gracing the #42GIMAC with wisdom, courage, and unwavering commitment. A powerful reminder that women’s leadership is not optional, it is essential for peace, justice, and Africa’s future. ✨✊🏾

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 | 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 💧⚖️ A powerful close to the #42GIMAC, charting commitments for 2026 and beyond. With bold intergenerational voices and decisive leadership, the message was clear: gender justice and water security must advance together.