About Us

The African Indigenous Women’s Organization is a continental-wide Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), whose members are composed of African Indigenous Women representing NGOs, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and other grass-root organizations (who undertake social and economic activities for their own gain).  We work towards the promotion of women’s and indigenous peoples rights which include social, economic and political empowerment in Africa.

African Indigenous Women’s Organization (AIWO) was formed on 24th April, 1998 in Agadir, Morocco. This was after the first African Indigenous Conference held on 20th to 24th April the same year. The conference was initiated by Netherlands Center for Indigenous Peoples and hosted by Tamaynut of Morocco. The theme of the conference was to “Clarify the role of Indigenous Women in Africa as supporters of the Community and to strengthen the Indigenous Cultures and traditions persistence”.

Our Activities

AIWO works directly with indigenous groups from rural areas to address issues in the following areas:

Our Major Programs

Our Vision

Improvement and empowerment of African Indigenous Women’s livelihood

Our Mission

Enhancing and strengthening the capacity of African Indigenous Women through participation, social, economic, political empowerment as well as protection of their rights

Highlights

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International Women's Day 2024

Celebration of International Womens Day hosted in Turukana

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Recognition Certificate Award

Certificate of Recognition Awarded by United Nations Human Rights Prize

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Participation at COP 28

Indigenous women from Africa attended COP 28 and they were able to attend other meetings organized by Indigenous women from other socialcultural regions

GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE TRɄA SUMMIT

Read the general report of the World summit on Traditional Knowledge related to Biodiversity which was held in Bogota Colombia ahead of COP 16

What people say?

The girls during the past viva training reported that so far they feel that fights against FGM is almost won.This is because of regular trainings that have empowered them and can stand to say no if someone raises issues about taking them through FGM. There arouse a challenge that there are arising cases of married women who are being forced by their spouses to undergo FGM.This is a small percentage as per now .Generally the girls are happy that they have enough knowledge and courage to stand and say No to FGM.
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