Africa Women and Sport Consultative Meeting
The Africa Meeting at the International Working Group on Women and Sport Conference 2014 provided a space to strategically connect African women in sport. The meeting resolved that there is a need to have an African Women and Sport forum by November 2014 where all African states can come together to work on a plan which will help the continent be active in issues affecting women and sport.
Botswana volunteered to host this meeting so that all the pending issues could be addressed and a formal structure could be developed to address women and sport issues in Africa.
The women in sport movement in Africa has over the last two decades been growing albeit in a disjointed fashion. Pockets of vibrant action in various countries and at specific moments have sparked and spurred on the momentum towards the vision of collective action for the advancement of women in sport in Africa.
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