AMwA will be holding a Sierra Leone National African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) on the theme, “Reclaiming Our bodies: Women’s Leadership and Movement Building on Gender Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Conflict and Post Conflict Africa”, that is scheduled to take place from 3rd – 16th October, 2010 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The AWLI aims to strengthen the personal and organisational capacities of young African women influence policy and decision-making through training and networking. It serves as a networking, training and information dissemination forum for young women aged between 25-40 working on gender issues. Since it was established in 1997, the AWLI and its related programmes, has a network of over 3000 alumni from all over Africa, UK and Europe.

Trainees for this Sierra Leone AWLI will include young women professionals in government, civil society, feminist organizations and multilateral agencies with a strong professional background on gender, women’s rights, leadership, movement building, development work, etc in order to allow for push for these issues further. This being a Sierra Leone AWLI, all participants should be Sierra Leone Nationals.

The deadline for the receipt of applications for this unique and exciting training programme is 25th August, 2010.

The application form and brochure are available for download.