💡Theme: A Feminist Approach to Tax Justice: Reclaiming Public Resources for Gender and Economic Justice
📅 Date: 18 – 22 August, 2025
📍 Location: Accra, Ghana
📌 Organisers: African Women’s Development and Communication
Network (FEMNET), African Feminist Tax Initiative (AFTI), Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), Stop the Bleeding Campaign (STBc), Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA)

About AFMA:

The annual African Feminist Macroeconomy Academy (AFMA) is a platform for African women’s rights organisations, feminist movements, and researchers to strengthen their knowledge and advocacy for the advancement of economic justice. While many strides have been made by FEMNET’s members and other feminist movements in Africa in advocating for governments to acknowledge the invaluable, largely unrecognised role of women in the African economy, particularly since the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020, there remains a dearth of feminist analysis of critical macroeconomic policy issues and processes such as in illicit financial flows, informal trade, unpaid care work, tax justice, and monetary policy.

Since 2017, AFMA has been a valuable learning exchange programme that enhances the capacities of African women’s movements and women’s rights activists to challenge and disrupt the structural economic impediments to achieving gender equality. AFMA comprises structured learning events for selected African activists, movement leaders, academics, journalists and diverse networks working towards achieving women’s rights, economic justice and gender equality more broadly. The central aim of AFMA is to deepen participants’
appreciation of the many intersecting ways that macroeconomic policies shape the lived realities of the women whose lives they are working to transform and how their efforts at the local level can influence and shape these policies. A significant aspect of AFMA is its role in generating knowledge through research. It works with AFMA alums to co-create research that informs its advocacy, linking their efforts to respond to the impacts and influence these policies and frameworks to work for them.

Goals:
The primary goal of AFMA is to empower women activists with the knowledge and skills to influence macroeconomic policy processes and outcomes. By enhancing their capacity, AFMA aims to enable these activists to challenge and disrupt the structural economic impediments to achieving gender equality, thereby contributing to the advancement of economic justice.