Jean Kemitare

Programmes Director

Urgent Action Fund - Africa

Jean Kemitare is the Programmes Director at Urgent Action Fund – Africa, responsible for strategic program leadership and implementation. Her experience spans 18 years in community mobilization, movement building, research, capacity building, policy advocacy, and feminist funding. She has expertise in chronic poverty, gender equality, gender-based violence, and trauma healing. Jean has authored popular education methodologies for violence prevention, resisting extractives, and water justice. She has written opinion pieces and peer-reviewed articles on feminist funding, violence, economic justice, trauma, and healing justice. She holds an MA in Social Sector Planning and Management from Makerere University.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
12:30 pm EEST	02:00 pm EEST	African Feminist Perspectives on Wellbeing: Cultural Meanings, Identities and Innovations Side Event Kigali Convention Center - Room AD 12-1	AWDF and the Stephen Lewis Foundation will join African feminist movement partners to launch the “Towards a Transformative Feminist Approach to Trauma in Africa: Read More AWDF and the Stephen Lewis Foundation will join African feminist movement partners to launch the “Towards a Transformative Feminist Approach to Trauma in Africa: Perspectives from Practice” toolkit. This launch is part of sustained efforts to resource, co-create and amplify the innovations, leadership and contribution of African feminist and WROs in advancing solutions to critical issues affecting most marginalised groups in the movement. The launch is an opportunity to showcase feminist tools, approaches and exchange perspectives on trauma redress in Africa. Funders and feminist movement voices reflect on reimagining decolonial, innovative and radical ways to resource trauma redress on the continent. Organizer: African Women Development Fund Read Less Speakers Jean Kemitare Programmes Director Urgent Action Fund - Africa Pontso Mafethe Director of Programmes African Women's Development Fund Juliet Kushaba Executive Director (in Arts for Women's Rights Organisation) ArtVism (Uganda) Mary Balikungeri Executive Director Rwanda Women's Network