Vision

AMwA's envisions a world in which there is social, economic and political autonomy of African women.

AMwA's Mission

AMwA's mission is to serve as a networking, information, advocacy and training forum for African women. It builds female leadership capacities to influence policy and decision-making. AMwA does this by:

• Building the leadership capacities of African women and their organisations
• Creating leadership development opportunities for African women at various levels
• Highlighting the skills, expertise and creativity of African women
• Sensitising and empowering African women
• Challenging sexist and racist stereotypes by emphasising positive images of African women.

AMwA Objectives

AMwA's objectives are to:

• Strengthen and promote African women's feminist leadership and to respond to the leadership development needs of African women – individuals and their organisations.
• Influence policies that affect African women at national, regional and international levels.
• Contribute to the construction of a feminist epistemology by African women
• To strengthen the organisational capacity of AMwA.

AMwA's Programmes and Strategic Actions

AMwA intends to achieve its objectives through the Five Programmes and a number of strategies:

•  Women's Leadership Development - Since its inception in 1985, AMWA has been committed to Women's Development focused on ‘raising the bar' by equipping African Women to participate in the areas of leadership and decision making, as well as empowering them to have a voice in key issues and areas that affect them. This is though organizing African Women's Leadership Institutes (AWLIs) at regional, (Africa-wide) and sub-regional levels. (East-Horn, West Africa , Southern Africa and UK-Europe). In each geographical area, the themes of the institute are defined on the basis of key and region-specific challenges. AMwA has provided training and capacity building programmes inclusive of its high quality, flagship African Women's Leadership Institute programme (AWLI), whilst also providing development support for initiatives run by and for African women. Since its launch in 1997, the AWLI has trained over 2000 women in Africa and United Kingdom .

•  Feminist Leadership and Organisational Development – AMwA engages in organizational development with a feminist perspective as part of feminist leadership and feminist movement building in Africa . This is mainly through: a series of organizational development interventions with selected women's organizations; publishing and disseminating of African feminists' analyses of African women's experiences of and strategies to resist patriarchy.

•  Strengthening Feminism in Africa – This is done through Oral Her-story of women of substance in Africa , write shops, documentation and production of a Leaders Journal highlighting issues and events significant to the African women's leadership struggle.

•  Influencing policy at national, regional and international levels ­ - The advocacy activities of AMwA has enabled it to gain recognition in a variety of sectors, including the international voluntary sector, the United Nations family, African Regional bodies, governmental and inter governmental organisations and amongst funding bodies. Policy influence is been done mainly through: Research, Policy Analysis (esp. policies evolving within the EC, the African Union, NEPAD and WTO); networking and maintaining partnerships with other regional and network organizations for African women both in Africa and UK-Europe; advocacy and lobbying to place the voices and perspectives of African women on relevant agenda and within policy regimes at all levels.

•  Institutional Strengthening- This is through continually strengthening the organisation to be able to handle the increasing challenges facing AMwA in terms of: managing the transition process, resource mobilisation, streamlining internal systems, structures and processes. It also involves the bolstering of AMwA's image and presence continent–wide ( Africa ).