Introduction to Women'sNet

Women’sNet is a feminist organisation that works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We provide training and facilitate content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women’s and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use.

Our website is a hub for information by women, about women and gender, and has a focus on South African and African content. We help women to find the people, issues, resources and tools they need for social activism.

What's New?

Latest news, events and job opportunities

RIATT: Focal Person

Application Deadline: 
26 Feb 2010

The QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA) is a non-profit organisation which represents quadriplegics and paraplegics in South Africa. QASA’s mission is to be an effective coordinating, policy-making and supporting organisation striving to prevent spinal cord injury and to promote and protect the interests of people with mobility impairments through advocacy, lobbying and delivery of services and products to people with disabilities.

SAIDE: Education Specialist

Application Deadline: 
15 Feb 2010

 The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) was formed as an educational trust in July 1992. Its brief is to assist in the reconstruction of education and training in South Africa. SAIDE undertakes projects across South Africa, as well as in sub-Saharan Africa. It strives to increase access to cost-effective quality education, especially to more marginalised communities, through the appropriate use of distance education and different technologies.

Centre for Policy Studies: Senior Researcher

Application Deadline: 
15 Feb 2010

 The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a leading policy research and policy-development institution in South Africa. CPS undertakes a wide spectrum of research projects focussing on key policy challenges facing South Africa and Southern Africa. It works in a number of areas, including local government, service delivery, civil society, public participation, democracy and governance.

RAPCAN: Project Coordinator

Application Deadline: 
15 Feb 2010

 RAPCAN (Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) is a child protection organisation, based in Cape Town, which focuses on issues relating to child victimisation and offending. RAPCAN’s work includes direct services to children and families, the provision of training to professionals and non-professionals that work with children, the development and dissemination of resource materials, and advocacy towards the reform of law and policy.

Legal Resources Centre: Attorney

Application Deadline: 
15 Feb 2010

 The Legal Resources Centre is a human rights organisation in South Africa which uses the law as an instrument of justice for the vulnerable and marginalised, including poor, homeless and landless people and communities who suffer discrimination by reason of race, class, gender, disability or by reason of social, economic, and historical circumstances.