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Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), is a consciously feminist and women’s human rights pan- African Fund, registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Operating as a virtual organisation, the Fund boasts of strategic presence in Africa’s five sub-regions- East Africa: Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala Uganda; North Africa: Cairo, Egypt; Central Africa: Bujumbura,Burundi; Yaoundé, Cameroon; Southern Africa: Harare, Zimbabwe and West Africa: Abuja, Nigeria; Ethiopia. Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly.
UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time sensitive, innovative and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in democratic governance, economic and environmental justice, natural resources governance, conflict transformation and justice processes while protecting their personhood, integrity and rights.

The African Women’s Human Rights Defenders Platform-The Feminist Republik) was established with three buckets of work defining its focus: Holistic protection, safety, security and wellbeing; healing justice; documentation and knowledge generation. UAF-Africa is looking to recruit a dynamic and passionate individual to oversee the work of the Feminist Republik, ensuring advancement of different pieces of the work.

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Ndanatsei Bofu-Tawamba

Ex-Official Member (Zimbabwe)

Ndanatsei Bofu-Tawamba, an African citizen and Zimbabwean national, is the CEO & Executive Director at Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) in Kenya. UAF-Africa is a feminist and pan-African rapid response grant making organisation that invests in African women’s power to change the status quo. Ndana is a seasoned feminist and women’s rights advocate, a social entrepreneur with philanthropic expertise spanning 20 years. Prior to leading at UAF-Africa, Ndana was in charge of the UN Women Office in Zimbabwe where she led in the execution of the multi-million-dollar funded EC, DFID & DANIDA Gender Support Programme. Ndana has leveraged over USD100 million directed towards strengthening African women’s movements and achieving women and girls’ rights. She has lectured at the Women’s University in Africa, been invited as guest lecturer and speaker at several high-level platforms across Africa, Europe, South and North America. She is a renowned speaker and published writer on topics of African women’s leadership in conflict transformation, Regenerative African & feminist philanthropy, and the nexus between Ebola, HIV&AIDS, women and culture. In the global human rights community, Ndana is a staunch figure and voice for enhanced women’s rights investments Ndana is an Executive Education alumnus of INSEAD Business Schools in France and Singapore. She is a Senior International Fellow at the Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society at CUNY, USA. She earned her Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies from Lancaster University, UK, obtained her Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Social Psychology from the University of Zimbabwe and holds a Diploma in Personnel Management. Ndana serves on the Board of the African Philanthropy Network. She represents African Women’s Funds on the Governance Board of the International Network of Women’s Funds (Prospera), in Mexico. Her leadership at UAF-Africa, the UN, academia, international boards, regional consultancies on philanthropy, human rights, social movements & governance has meant extensive engagements across the world, thereby presenting her the opportunity to weave her commitment to social justice with an opportunity to further explore women and girl’s realities throughout the world. Twitter: @NdanaTawamba & @UAFAfrica.

Oumy Ndour

Communications & Media Engagement Associate

Oumy is from Senegal. She’s a multi-graduate from the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar. At an early age, sensitive to the issue of children’s rights, she decided to work for her graduation thesis validating her degree in journalism, on the issue of child mechanics in Dakar with a film entitled “Children’s sweat”. Prior to joining Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-A), she was the Head of The Culture Desk of Senegalese National TV.

After graduating in Senegal, she moved to Montreal, Canada, where she went back to advance her studies while working at Vues d’Afrique, the African and Creole film festival. In 2007, she directed her first documentary “Njakhass” (Patchwork), which will be followed by several others for television. After her return to Senegal, she joined RTS, the Senegalese National Television where, in addition to reporting, she presented the mid-day and evening news. Then she created and anchored the film section of the morning program «Kenkelibaa».

Oumy Ndour has covered for RTS many cultural events in the world. Over the last ten years, she has coordinated and hosted on the national channel, all the major cultural events that took place in Senegal, which gave her the opportunity to interview world celebrities such as Germaine Jackson, Charles Aznavour, Randy Weston, Akon, Angelique Kidjo, Danny Glover, former french President François Hollande, Youssou Ndour, etc. With her training in documentation, journalism, video technology, experiences in documentary production and press relations, she masters the entire information production chain, from newsgathering to broadcasting, not to mention documentary research, popularization, and archiving. She directed, coordinated and hosted many productions in her private capacity for other organizations. She has been a jury member of several international film festivals and competitions. She often anchors prestigious events in Senegal and elsewhere in the world. Oumy Ndour is also an activist for children and women’s rights. In 2016, she co-founded with a friend “Ladies Club Senegal”, a Facebook platform that brings together nearly 60,000 women, monitoring, promoting women’s rights and freedoms, women’s leadership and entrepreneurship. Her commitment to this segment of the population has gone stronger. She is one of the founding members of the collective “Dafadoy” fighting violence against women and girls which launched in 2019 the mobilization for the criminalisation of rape in Senegal. Along with other activists, she’s at the forefront of all struggles for women’s rights in Senegal. Alongside the World Food Programme, she has made a commitment as a volunteer to provide quality food for all children in Senegal through the Group of Friends of School Food. She is passionate about travel, cinema, reading and fashion.

Jean Kemitare

Programmes Director

Jean is a Ugandan national, a passionate African feminist with over 15 years’ experience in the development sector in women’s rights programming. She has expertise and experience on gender equality & women’s empowerment with a focus on prevention and response to violence against women across the Sub-Saharan Africa context including program strategy development, capacity building for NGOs, advocacy and research.

Jean has been a practitioner at senior management level over the past 8 years leading strategy development for the regional GBV Prevention Network at Raising Voices from information
sharing to a comprehensive feminist movement building programme. Over the years this work has contributed to a rapid increase, interest and investment in addressing violence against women within the region and building a critical mass of GBV prevention network membership. She initiated a range of partnerships with regional feminist networks like FEMNET, INGOs like the IRC, Sexual Violence Research Center, UN Agencies, including UN Women in Uganda and at regional level and coordinated collaborations with feminist movement building organisations like Just Associates (South East Asia) and Intercambios Allianz (Latin America). She has served in advisory capacity on committees like the African Integrated
Response initiated by the Stephen Lewis Foundation and hosted by African Women’s Development Fund.

She believes in agency of African women to not only innovate solutions of pertinent issues affecting their lives but also generate knowledge for a global audience.
Jean is co-author of among other publications, Get Moving! curriculum a feminist organization transformation tool for addressing GBV and led a its adaptation to address sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in humanitarian settings in partnership with the IRC. Previously her work revolved around chronic poverty research, policy advocacy, and community-based HIV awareness and response.

She was instrumental in civil society advocacy for a social protection policy in Uganda. Jean completed a Masters Degree in Social Sector Planning and Management and Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University Kampala Uganda.

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Njoki Njoroge Njehu

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Amel Gorani

Shinaz Rehema Ali

Susan Asio

Chiedza Muchena

Edmond Mugisha

Joanne Mahinda

Vongai Tinarwo

Onyinyechi Okechukwu

Masa Amir

Oumy Ndour

Nyasha Chibanda

Nancy Chitiza

Faye Macheke

Jean Kemitare

Sharon Ngeno

Pamela Mudhune

Roseline Kamdem

Tariro Tandi

Hiwot Tedla

Vanessa Luendo Bwale

Zanele Mbugua

Miriam Wanjira

Daphne Jena

Melissa Wainaina

Christine Ruguaru

Carol Werunga

Melizah Memena

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