Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the Cambridge Judge Business School based at the University of Cambridge will host a seminar titled #ShiftThePower – Revolutionising Transparency in the Third Sector: Driving Better Decisions, Legitimacy and Goodwill on the 7th of October 2021 from 11:00 – 12:30 BST). This is part of an online series deconstructing the components of imbalanced power structures between Global North and Global South philanthropy actors, better understanding how change can come about and enabling philanthropy practitioners to define the nature of the change required for the long-term institutionalisation of COVID-19-induced changes in best practice. The first two session recordings are available here.  The registration link for the event can be found here.

The FEMNET 2021 African Feminist Macroeconomic Academy (AFMA) will be held in partnership with TrustAfrica from 15-19 November in Dakar, Senegal.  

This year’s academy will be held under the theme: “Promoting a Feminist Approach to   Delivery and Financing of Public Services in Africa”. Participants invited to apply will  be African feminist activists and movement leaders drawn from a range of sub- regions, organisations, movements and formations that are pushing for women’s  economic justice and working in various sectors such as agriculture, informal trade,  natural resource extraction, sexual reproductive rights, violence against  women, economic justice, trade unions, women with disability, young women among  others. Please find the call for applications here.  The deadline to apply by is 30 September 2021.  

Les discriminations fondées sur le Travail, l’Ascendance et l’Esclavage viennent d’être passées en revue par des experts de différents pays, sur invitation de TrusAfrica, initiateur d’une étude ayant ciblé le Mali, le Niger, le Burkina Faso et la Mauritanie.  

Les travaux en webinaire coordonnés à partir de Dakar, siège de l’organisation, ont consisté en deux journées de partage (13-14 septembre 2021) sur les résultats des enquêtes. Celles-ci ont révélé la présence persistante dans tous les pays-cibles, de pratiques esclavagistes comme les pires formes de traitement de la personne humaine.    

Halima Mahomed is an independent researcher and consultant focusing on focusing on knowledge building, advocacy and support to strengthen the narratives, practice and impact of philanthropy in Africa. She is an Associate Researcher at CAPSI and serves as a member of the PSJP management team, Alliance Magazine Editorial Board, and ICNL Advisory Council. Halima has worked for and with a range of African and international philanthropic and philanthropy support organizations and written extensively on philanthropy, with a strong focus on linking philanthropy to local agency and power. Halima holds a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Witwatersrand.

If you have been in the philanthropy sector for any period of time, then Halima is not a new name. Even for us at TrustAfrica, we are welcoming her back, this time in a new capacity as a senior fellow. Halima Mahomed is a well-known independent researcher and consultant focusing on knowledge building, advocacy and support to strengthen the narratives, practice and impact of philanthropy in Africa. She is an Associate Researcher at CAPSI and serves as a member of the PSJP management team, Alliance Magazine Editorial Board, and ICNL Advisory Council. Halima has worked for and with a range of African and international philanthropic and philanthropy support organizations and written extensively on philanthropy, with a strong focus on linking philanthropy to local agency and power. We’ve worked closely in the past with Halima on some of our work with social movements, which is another critical area of inquiry for Ms. Mahomed.  Halima holds a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Witwatersrand. We are delighted to welcome Halima back to the TrustAfrica family! 

TrustAfrica, l’UNESCO et leurs partenaires organisent un Forum de haut niveau sur les Humanités Africaines. Prévu les 28,29 et 30 Septembre 2021 à Bamako au Mali, ce Forum des Humanités africaines réunira des intellectuels africains qui vont se pencher sur le devenir des Humanités sur le continent. L’accent sera mis sur les matériaux endogènes dont les langues africaines et l’importance de leur utilisation pour réinventer d’autres futurs africains. Le Forum sera immédiatement suivi de celui des jeunes qui se tient du 1er au 3 Octobre 2021. Portant sur la littératie des futurs, il intervient après celui de Banjul tenu en 2019, où TrustAfrica était très impliqué dans l'organisation et la conceptualisation. 

TrustAfrica presents the online “Pan Africanism, Feminism, Youth and the Arts: Post-COVID Transition and The Future We Want” Round Table at the 3rd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual and Cultural Festival 15-24 September 2021. 

En partenariat avec l’Association pour un Monde Solidaire (ASW), le Réseau Africain de lutte contre les discriminations basées sur le travail et l’esclavage et Amnesty International, TrustAfrica a le plaisir de vous convier aux journées de restitution des études sur les Discriminations Basées sur l’Ascendance et l’Esclavage dans les pays que sont : le Burkina Faso, le Mali, la Mauritanie et le Niger. Cette restitution aura lieu les 13 et 14 septembre 2021.