Home | African Feminist Research Initiative for Advocacy and Development (AFRAD)

We are a collective of feminist researchers, policy, program and knowledge management specialists, and civic organisers in Uganda. We facilitate civic organising to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals through a feminist lens. We generate knowledge through unconventional, gender-transformative research, sparking new perspectives and applying this knowledge to effective programming and evidence-based and targeted advocacy on critical gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, including sexual and reproductive health, environment and climate, media rights, and freedoms.

We value partnerships and collaborations, so we work with the media and media freedom organisations, governance and human rights organisations, gender equality, and women’s rights CSOs.

Research

We enhance knowledge leadership by producing valuable knowledge products to inform policy-making and strategic investments in gender equality, women’s empowerment, media rights, freedom, and governance. Our stream of work in this area comprises;The Gender Context Tracker provides gender-context analyses of issues… .../Read More.

Knowledge Translation

We use our technical rigour and extensive industry knowledge to synthesise information from volumes of data and translate complex technical content into accurate, easy-to-understand, human-interest, gender-responsive and transformative content.

Capacity strengthening

Our unique blend of training and capacity-strengthening initiatives include The Civic Enabler—We can't overstate the role of civic organising in improving society's governance. Yet activists’ course of work presents numerous organisational and individual challenges. We bridge the gaps and connect the missing dots… .../Read More.

Consultancy services

In addition to implementing our strategic programmes, we do commissioned work for high-impact civil society organisations in Africa by providing consultancy and advisory services. Our deep industry knowledge in the areas of our specialisation guarantees the quality, relevance, and impact of the services we provide.… .../Read More.

Projects

Strengthening Digital Security Capacity for Enhanced Civic Action

The Strengthening Digital Security Capacity for Enhanced Civic Action addresses the critical challenges of shrinking civic space in Uganda… .../Read More.

The Gender Media Scorecard

We developed the Gender Media Scorecard Indicators. It is a tool that tracks and documents media coverage of sexual and reproductive health… .../Read More.

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Running Polls

Contribute to knowledge on critical gender equality and women’s rights issues, media rights and freedoms, environment and climate, democracy and governance by answering any of the running polls below.

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