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Call for  Abstracts/Articles

THE AFRICAN WOMEN’S JOURNAL- January/June 2012

 

THEME: Promoting Economic Empowerment of Women and Entrepreneurship as a Pathway for Fighting Poverty in Africa.

 

Deadline for Abstracts - 30 November 2011

 

Majority of African women have relatively limited access to material assets, low incomes and very limited opportunities to engage in regional and foreign trade. Currently few programmes by African governments aim at creating employment and services by supporting women entrepreneurs particularly in informal sectors, including Small, Medium Enterprise (SME), Medium Enterprise (ME) and grow them to big businesses. Additionally, findings from research undertaken by FEMNET in Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia indicate that trade arrangements in Africa and with its partners in other regions of the world has had different impact on women and men and most often than not it affects women more negatively in their position as entrepreneurs, workers, consumers, producers, and care givers within the public and domestic spheres. It is therefore essential that policy makers, trade negotiators, planners, economists are all fully aware of these gender differentiated impacts and take them into consideration when formulating policy, making decisions or implementing trade related programmes.

 

As part of contributing to the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020) through provision of information on the themes of the decade, the African Women’s Journal for January/June 2012 will focus on the theme:  Promoting Economic Empowerment of Women and Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to Fighting Poverty in Africa.

 

The Journal article can focus on any of the following sub themes in relations to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa

·         Engendering Regional Trade Agreements in Africa

·         Harnessing Small, Medium Enterprise (SME), and Medium Enterprise (ME) to grow into big businesses.

·         Opportunities for women in the COMESA, East African community, ECOWAS and SADC trade Agreements

 

We also encourage you to share with us research findings, best practices or case studies on the theme. We invite individuals to share inspiring stories of how they have grown their businesses.

 

Guidelines:

For those interested in submitting articles, kindly send us an ABSTRACT of your article on or before 30th November, 2011. The abstract should be written in English or French and must not be more than 200 words.

 

You will be notified if your abstract has been approved. Only writers with selected abstracts will be asked to submit full article, which must be written in English or French and should be between 1500 to 2000 words. The article also needs to be well researched with clear referencing using footnotes and providing a bibliography at the end. A guideline for referencing will be provided.  We will also require pictures relating to the article. (NB: The picture will have to be in Jpeg format). A brief biographical note of one paragraph with not more than one hundred words, contact information with a JPEG mug shot, high resolution picture of yourself should be submitted with the article. Deadline for submission of FULL ARTICLE will be 30th January, 2011.

 

Please note the following key deadlines

Abstract should be submitted by 15 December, 2011

Full Article should be submitted by 30th January, 2012

 

Send to admin@femnet.or.ke or communication@femnet.or.ke

 

We look forward to reading your abstracts.

 

Best regards,

Carlyn Hambuba

Head of Communication

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