WOMANKIND Worldwide endeavours to hold annual planning
meetings with our East African partners to review progress and plan future
activities.
Such meetings enable partners to share their experiences, skills and knowledge
to promote womens rights and freedoms and to co-ordinate workshops and
training programmes that support womens own development and address
their specific needs and concerns. They provide an opportunity for our partners
to network, learn from one another and develop strategies for advocacy, lobbying
and campaigning within their own countries to raise awareness of FGM and early
or forced marriage or marriage by abduction.
At regional and international level, we work with partners to take part in
UN meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women; the Commission on Human
Rights and the Commission on the Rights of the Child. Our partners also work
in consultation with specialised agencies such as UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA.