Mary Anne Zammit was born in Malta, and is a Graduate from the University of Malta in Social Work, Probation Services, Diplomatic Studies and in Masters in Probation.
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To mark International Women's Day (IWD) 2013, this special issue of e-CIVICUS looks at the role of women in civil society.
Aya Chebbi is a young Tunisian blogger, women advocate and peace activist.
Prior to joining CIVICUS she served as Chief Executive of India’s leading child rights advocacy organisation – Child Rights and You.
Oley Dibba-Wadda is the Executive Director of Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), a pan-African Non-Governmental Organisation working in 32 African countries to empower girls and women through gender-responsive education.
Kusum Lata Jain is the Joint Secretary at Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS), an eminent NGO engaged in rural Development in Rajasthan, India, for last 28 years.
Nana obtained an LLB and BL, from the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law in 1994 and 1996 respectively.
Women’s role in Civil Society Organisations
Being a woman advocate and practitioner in the non-government movement, experience has taught me that Civil Society Organizations, have a direct legitimate basis through their activities and their familiarity with all decision-makers, globally and internally, which can provide invaluable lessons vital for conceiving development interventions and generate trust and mutual understandings; civil society organizations take core responsibility and go beyond their welfare and economic development role and create new citizenry.
Anabel Cruz is the Founder Director of the Communication and Development Institute (ICD) of Uruguay, a civil society organization and private centre with more than 26 years of experience in strengthening civil society and citizen participation, by means of research, training, capacity building and dissemination of information activities in Latin America and worldwide.
Marta Cumbi is an Economist with a Master Degree in National Development and Project Planning from Bradford University, UK.
Joanna Kerr is the Chief Executive of ActionAid International - Johannesburg, a global federation with over 2800 staff working in over 45 countries committed to finding sustainable solutions to end poverty and injustice.
Claudine Ramarinjanahary, Responsible for the Activities Development at EFA “Ezaka ho Fampandrosoana any Ambanivohitra” NGO in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Aleksandra Nasteska is the co-founder and communications director of We Canada, a campaign for Canadian leadership in sustainability at the Earth Summit 2012.
Women leaders shape and inspire the consumer rights movement
To mark International Women’s Day this Friday, and World Consumer Rights Day a week later on 15 March, CI’s Raquel Baetz brought together women leaders from the consumer rights movement to talk about inspiration, leadership and the fight for consumer justice.
Written by: Kumi Naidoo
Published by: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (as part of the Development Dialogue Series)
About the Book
This volume offers the insights and reflections - both critical and self-critical - of a prominent civil society activist who has been engaged in local and global struggles for emancipation for over 30 years.
Edited by Carmen Malena
Published November 2009, 336 pages /6"x9", Paperback, US$29.
