PUTTING WOMEN AT THE HEART OF TRANSFORMING AFRICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT.

African Environmentalism and conservation is suffering from a profound imbalance in leadership. While we strive to protect the diversity of our environment, we have overlooked the importance of diversity in our teams. Diverse teams are more productive, collaborative, resilient and innovative, yet women are routinely underrepresented in decision-making roles. With the joint crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, we are at a moment when courageous, authentic leadership is needed more than ever.

WE Africa was created to remedy this imbalance by empowering women leaders in African conservation to transform their own and others’ leadership, creating strong mixed gender teams that will achieve greater environmental outcomes.

Our vision is that WE Africa sparks a movement of women leaders in Africa and beyond, who are role modelling a more effective and impactful way to do conservation. By delivering transformational and deeply African leadership experiences, amplified by a strong pay it forward approach and supported by a connected community, WE Africa is making tangible contributions to the sustainability and wellbeing of leaders and ecosystems. WE Africa is a beacon of hope for the future, locally and globally.

We are all about changing leadership norms that have been stifling us for generations. We believe that if there are enough of us doing this— leading differently—we’ll start seeing the change.

Dr. Leela Hazzah

OUR VALUES

COME AS YOU ARE

We are authentically ourselves: flawed, imperfect, beautiful.

CO-CREATION

We are rewiring what it looks like to work together, and what becomes possible therefore.

SAFE SPACE

We listen deeply, with compassion and empathy.

COURAGE

We come with a readiness to grow.

CONNECTED COMMUNITY

The bonds forged within WE support regenerative activities.

INTEGRITY

We do what we say we are going to do, with honesty and commitment.

EQUITY

WE is an organisation with a flat structure.

ABUNDANCE

We can give, give, give, and receive, receive, receive.

UBUNTU

We show up and bring value in the truest sense to the community.

RADICAL IMAGINATION

We innovate and take risks.

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