The Activist in Residence (AiR) initiative prioritises the creation of space within Fahamu for reflection, writing and dissemination of research by an activist. It is our belief that being away from regular responsibilities allows for reflection.
We will offer office space in addition to the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with Fahamu staff, partner institutions and movements. An AiR contributes to Fahamu by immersing in the organisation’s weekly activities, programmes and hosting a Tafakari forum
Fahamu has a wide range of knowledge assets accumulated over 15 years of supporting social justice programming and movements with some more developed and advanced than others. However, a rapidly changing global context demands innovative and evolving knowledge driven responses. Fahamu’s effectiveness depends on improved knowledge management capabilities.
The Fahamu Tafakari Forum, acts as a space for debate and reflection and helps distill knowledge held by staff, partners, movements towards strengthening Fahamu’s programmatic development.
Fahamu is working with feminist movements in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo to end gender based violence using survivor call centres, radio productions, theatre sketches and learning forums.
In 2011, Wamama wa Dhobi, a group of over 150 daily waged domestic workers from Nairobi’s informal settlements, started the Tutambulike campaign to articulate the economic and social demands of women informal workers, create mutual support and protection, and interface with mainstream unions, state institutions and other forums of redress.
The change project uses concrete lessons for change from Kenyan change agents at various levels to institute and builds consensus for progressive change in Kenya. The project has supported citizen’s forums throughout Kenya and supports the democratization of local and national processes through active citizen engagement.
The We Are the Solution campaign was born out of African farmers and peasant movements struggle against market driven agricultural policies for the purpose of creating alternative models, systems and practices that promote food sovereignty. We Are the Solution is lead by rural women associations and their leaders in West Africa.
The AU Monitor initiative seeks to strengthen civil society and citizen voices at the AU and its organs. The AU Monitor initiative leads Fahamu’s work in the SOAWR coalition work seeking the universal ratification, domestication and implementation of African women’s rights as enshrined in the Protocol to the African Charter on African Women’s Rights.
As the global politic and world order shifts, the emerging powers in Africa initiative seeks to nurture African research that enables African policy makers, citizens and movements to place Africa strategically to set the agenda and direction of engagement in the interest of African peoples'.
Pambazuka Press grew out of Pambazuka News in 2005 as a way of increasing access to its huge resource of original, radical writing. A unique progressive African publisher, Pambazuka Press publishes activists and grassroots thinkers, whose contributions to the struggle against oppression would be unlikely to be published elsewhere. It also publishes renowned academics and intellectuals.