Forum for African Women Educationalists

The Forum for African Women Educationalists ( FAWE ) is a pan-African NGO . It was founded in 1992 by five ministers of education to promote the education of girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa by giving them access to schools and the possibility of completing their education. In this way, they should be able to use its powers as well as the movement of Education For All ( Education for All ) of UNESCO provides. The members of the organization include education ministers, vice-chancellors of universities, education decision-makers, researchers, gender specialists and human rights activists.

The secretariat is in Nairobi . There are currently 34 national chapters in 33 countries including Benin , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Liberia , Nigeria , Rwanda , Senegal , Sierra Leone , Uganda , Togo and others.

It is an international partner of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program and a partner organization of the Association of African Women for Research and Development .

The management has Hendrina Doroba held.

The presidium consists of:

Aicha Bah Diallo - Chairperson, Former Advisor to the UNESCO Director General, Former Minister of Education of Guinea, Former UNESCO Director of Basic Education
Marie Lydia Toto Raharimalala - Vice- Chair , Minister of Technical Education and Vocational Training of Madagascar

Monica Mweseli - Treasurer, Professor, Vice Chancellor of the Kiriri Women's University of Science and Technology , Kenya , former Head of the Department of Literature and Linguistics at the University of Nairobi

Christine Dranzoa - Secretary, Associate Professor at Makerere University , Uganda , Assistant Director of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Manitoba , Canada

Winnie Nhlengethwa - Member, Vice Chancellor of Southern Africa Nazarene University , Swaziland

Fatou Sarr - Member, Researcher at IFAN-Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Esi Sutherland-Addy - Member, Head of Department of Language, Literature and Theater at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana , former Vice Minister for Higher Education of Ghana

Paulette Missambo - Member, Founding Member, Former Minister of Education of Gabon

Mwanaidi Abdallah - Member, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training of Zanzibar

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Wise Qatar: Aicha Bah Diallo , accessed March 16, 2015
↑ Esi Sutherland-Addy ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 16, 2015 @1@ 2
↑ FAWE Executive Committee ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 16, 2015 @1@ 2

[1] Wise Qatar: Aicha Bah Diallo , accessed March 16, 2015

[2] Esi Sutherland-Addy ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 16, 2015 @1@ 2

[3] FAWE Executive Committee ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 16, 2015 @1@ 2