Community Activist Resources

“No Land, No Life” - Women at the East Africa Convergence Refuse to Move out Quietly  

They came from forests, coastlines, grazing territories, and farmlands. In total 45 women from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and communities across DRC, Sou...

Launch | Voices against Extractivism: Sheroes for Change Comic Book

Voices Against Extractivism: Sheroes for Change marks WoMin’s first foray into comic book storytelling!

Women Learning Liberation Resource Library 

Introducing the Women Learning Liberation resource library, a rich and inspiring repository of documentation, conceptual thinking and facilitator guid...

Teaching in context: Building spaces for dialogue in South Africa 

From July 2024 to December 2025, as part of Women Learning Liberation (WLL), WoMin’s 18-month popular education course, WoMin supported dozens of gras...

Teaching in context: Making learning accessible in Guinea 

We spoke with Laetitia, the facilitator who led the WLL sessions in Guinea, about how the experience transformed both the participants and her. Laetit...

Teaching in context: Learning with the learners in Madagascar 

As a Pan African feminist researcher and academic, Zo Randriamaro reflected on her experience facilitating the WLL course in Madagascar. In working wi...

Teaching in context: Expanding on language in Uganda 

We sat down with the Women Learning Liberation facilitator in Uganda, Sostine Namanya, to reflect on what it really means to facilitate, learn, and or...

Teaching in context : Building Trust through Long-Term Political Education in Cameroon  

In Cameroon, the WLL became a vibrant space for women to build trust, share knowledge, and speak freely. The 10 Cameroonian participants are affected ...

Teaching in context: Learning and belonging in Ivory Coast  

The 10 Women Learning Liberation participants in Ivory Coast were women who are leading efforts to defend their lands and territories against mining a...

Launch | Impacts of the Construction of the Nachtigal Dam in Cameroon - Lessons from the Ecofeminist Cost Analysis

Women in six communities shared about the transformations the Nachtigal Dam has imposed on their households, labour and livelihoods, expenses, health,...

Photobook Launch | In the Embrace of the Earth 

In celebration of International Day of the Forests (21 March), WoMin is proud to launch the photobook “In the Embrace of the Earth.”

Launch | WoMin 2026 Ecofeminist Calendar

WoMin is proud to present a 2026 Ecofeminist Calendar, which honours the past, grounds us in the present, and reaffirms our commitment to a decolonial...

Resource Paper | Hopes and Hazards in Oil and Gas Expansion in West and Central Africa

WoMin is proud to launch a new resource paper, Hopes and Hazards in Current Oil and Gas Expansion in Central and West Africa.

LAUNCH | Ecofeminist Cost Analysis: A Briefing Sheet

For more than a decade, WoMin has worked to make visible the costs and losses that extractivist capitalism forces onto African working class and peasa...

Building Activists' Power to Keep Safe

WoMin proudly unveils a critical resource for women and communities facing violence in frontline struggles - Building Activists’ Power to Keep Safe - ...

Group of smiling African women, with fists in the air in solidarity

African Women Speak Out! Climate Justice for Africa Now!

African women and communities are sick and tired of COPs' dodging of responsibilities and empty promises. Their voices must be heard. Read African Wom...

Building the Right to Say NO to safeguard women’s rights to land and natural resources in East Africa

WoMin is pleased to launch the latest resource in the Right to Say NO series, Building the Right to Say NO to safeguard women’s rights to land and nat...

Women Build Power! Celebrating 10 Years of Pan African Ecofeminist Organising

WoMin is proud to mark a decade of supporting women and communities resisting extractive developments, in collaboration with a substantive network of ...

Woman weighing up aid

AfDB: Finance Development for people and not profit!

WoMin is thrilled to launch a new pamphlet, AfDB Finance Development for People not Profit!

Violence Against Women Resources

As part of International Women’s Month and Wangari Maathai Day, WoMin is proud to present two new critical resources: Violence Against Women Papers Vi...

The Right to Say NO: African women defend Africa's wealth

WoMin is pleased to launch the second in our series of animated short films – The Right to Say NO: Women Defend Africa’s Wealth.

Understanding the Right to Say NO

We are proud to share a set of resources and tools to help activists and communities to better understand the Right to Say NO.

Women Activists Confront Energy Inequality & Dirty Coal in Phola-Ogies

WoMin and the Greater Phola-Ogies Women’s Forum are proud to launch a new Feminist Participatory Action Report (FPAR), “We are the victims of pollutio...

Guns, Power & Politics: Extractivism, Militarisation, and Violence against Women

This research and activist guide series focuses on the mining sectors in Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe – laying bare the architecture of absen...

No Longer A Life Worth Living Report

Mining-impacted women from the towns of Somkhele and Fuleni are proud to launch a report, No Longer a Life Worth Living, a product of eight months of ...

Mogale Declaration: Living the Future Now

The Mogale Declaration is just one step in addressing these concerns, and provides a working frame and clear set of political demands, which can guide...

WoMin 2nd Annual Feminist School

“Developing our African eco-feminist craft; strengthening the tools of our resistance.” For eight days, from 7 to 14 June 2017, WoMin convened its sec...

Women Stand their Ground against Big Coal

A new report highlights the harmful effects that the Sendou coal plant in Senegal has on people, particularly women, and ecosystems.

Three Activist Guides to support women and communities

Women Building Power launches three activist guides to support women and communities across Africa in their struggles for climate justice and sustaina...

Women Building Power Library: A growing collection of resources

Welcome to Women Building Power, a cutting-edge and developing collection of research, information materials, and tools which forms the knowledge hub ...

Women, Gender and Extractivism in Africa: A Collection of Papers

Read the Full Collection. View by Chapter A background note, which guides the reader on the general content of the collection and explains some of the...

Right to Say No Information Pack

WoMin is proud to share a Right to Say NO resource pack that explores a range of critical themes and issues.

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Burkina Faso

Summary

7

partners

2

strategic alliances

2

active programmes

Programmes Running

Debt & Reparations
Consent & The Right To Say NO
Partner(s) in Burkina Faso
Formed in 2001, ORCADE supports mining affected communities in Burkina Faso through rights-based advocacy and capacity building.
Formed in 2001, ORCADE supports mining affected communities in Burkina Faso through rights-based advocacy and capacity building.
Formed in 2001, ORCADE supports mining affected communities in Burkina Faso through rights-based advocacy and capacity building.
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