Haki Mkononi – Right in Our Hands

A Regional Legal Empowerment Programme for Women’s Right

A beneficiary of the Oxfam Women Economic Empowerment Programme in Shinyanga, Tanzania
Paper publication date: 
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Haki Mkononi was “A regional legal empowerment project on women rights” working at regional level with the African Union, its organs, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with women’s rights organisations in 6 priority countries (Uganda, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tanzania). The project aimed at ensuring that continental norms and standards translate to concrete gains for women and girls at the national levels through the domestication of the African Women’s Rights Protocol and or passage of integral laws including their implementation and enforcement.