WUNRN
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
http://www.femnet.or.ke/subsection.asp?ID=2