2023 Francophone Forum

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Forum 2023

Register to the Forum

The Francophone Forum 2023 will be held in a hybrid format: In person in Lomé (Togo) and simultaneously online from November 27 to 30, 2023 around the theme: “Building the Francophone Feminist Movement: Where to Start?”

Exchanges during the four-day event will be structured around the following topics:

Feminist movement and women’s movement: Different? Complementary? or Contradictory?
Embracing our feminism: Revisiting and improving our practices
Feminist taboos and the unspoken, unacknowledged needs of defenders: let’s dare to discuss them!
Financing the francophone feminist movement: Reinventing our solutions.

Virtual

Online registration will allow you to join the Forum as if you were present on site in Lomé, thanks to high-quality digital access to virtual rooms and live broadcasts of key sessions. To support us in providing such a standing platform, we are asking each participant to contribute by paying a registration fee of 13775 FCFA (21 EUR).

In person

The capacity for the in person Forum in Lomé is limited to 500 participants and is subject to a selection process and the payment of registration fees, which amount to :

Young activist : 103,500 CFA (112 Euros)
Activist : 146,935 CFA (224 Euros)
Financial Partner : 219 090 CFA (334 Euros)
Other Actor : 146 935 CFA (224 Euros)

The registration fees for in person participants include: stationery kit, lunches, snacks and Gala Dinner listed in the Forum Program.

NB: Registration fees do not include travel or visa expenses, accommodation costs, travel insurance, or costs related to the COVID-19 test requirements.

Registration fees will not be refunded, but can be transferred to a person of your choice. Contact us: inscription@xoese.org

Goals

The main objective of the 2023 edition of the Forum is to demystify feminism and facilitate its appropriation and the integration of its principles in the daily life of the movement’s actors.

Its specific objectives are as follows:

To create a safe space for frank and constructive exchanges and discussions on the fundamentals of the women’s movement and the feminist movement;
To contribute to increasing the feminist commitment of Francophone women activists and organizations;
To give the opportunity to the actors of the movement to conduct in-depth reflections on the effectiveness and efficiency of the intervention strategies and solutions they propose to solve the problems in their communities and to refine them.

History

The feminist movement that originated in Western countries in the 1960s began to spread to other parts of the world in the 1970s.

The history of the women’s movement has been marked by various important events including the world conferences (Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi and Beijing) on women organized by the United Nations. These conferences were the opportunity to place the issue of gender equality at the heart of the global agenda. They allowed the international community to mobilize around a set of common objectives, accompanied by effective action plans for the promotion of women and their rights in all spheres of public and private life. The struggle of women for equality and the recognition of their rights and contributions to the economic and social development of their countries has been one of the dominant social issues of the last thirty years.

As a result of these mobilizations, the women’s movement has become more active in all regions of the world. But in Francophone countries, it is still relatively weak and struggling to take its place.

XOESE having noted this need to strengthen the Francophone women’s movement has thought of setting up a framework for reflection through the XOESE Forum 2023. This second edition of the XOESE International Forum aims to continue the efforts to elevate the movement for the rights of Francophone women and young women.