WoMin is proud to share The Weight of the Sky – the evaluation report of WoMin’s second five-year strategic plan, which ran from 2019 to early 2025. Instead of a more traditional evaluation path, we chose to build a deep, learning-oriented evaluation, designed to help the organisation answer persistent questions about our impact on women’s organising and movement building, our work in partnerships, and our progress in building an organisation that embraces ecofeminism and Pan Africanism.
Authored by a team of evaluators, Rudo Chigudu (Zimbabwe) and Mariam S. Armisen (Burkina Faso), the report highlights WoMin’s strengths and challenges, acknowledging the organisation’s critical role in supporting African ecofeminist movements and our commitment to centring women’s voices and resisting extractivism. Through a rigorous process of inquiry, reflection and open dialogue with staff, partners, allies and community members, the evaluation also highlights areas where WoMin must reflect on its ways of work going forward.
The purpose of this evaluation has not been to judge performance but to hold up a mirror through which WoMin can see itself more clearly and grow stronger, more transparent, and more sustainable. The mirror reflects both WoMin’s groundbreaking achievements and the spaces where alignment with feminist values can deepen. Holding both affirmation and honest critique together is itself a feminist practice of care and accountability.
The Weight of the Sky offers WoMin a vital opportunity to pause, consolidate and redefine itself for the next phase of the organisation’s work with renewed purpose, clarity and courage in the fight for an ecofeminist, anti-extractivist future for Africa and the world.
