Women group engages right commission to formalise alliance.

Prof Endeley did so on behalf of CHRC’s President, Prof James Mouangue Kobila. The delegation of the Rights commission at the open-door meeting was headed by the institution’s. The Executive Director, of WFAC, Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh led the NGO’s delegation. 

The group was accompanied by members of MiFali, an adolescent and young women-led feminist movement which is mentored by WFAC. Zoneziwoh told reporters that after collaborating for months informally, she used the audience to formally present WFAC to the CHRC.

She said WFAC which works in over 17 countries across Central and East Africa, used the audience to discuss new partnership areas. Having submitted an application to the CHRC, Zoneziwoh noted that the process of formal partnership is in progress.

Partnering with the Commission, the Executive Director noted, will boost the WFAC’s project to support certain communities, women, youths in five regions on climate change, gender equality, health and legal instruments.

With WFAC in existence since 2009, Zoneziwoh reassured that “…we have to collaborate with the Commission to see that this project creates the needed impact…”.

The Executive Director said the collaboration will notably assist the organization in its drive to advance quality healthcare and provide basic healthcare information.

Zoneziwoh argued that officially liaising with the rights commission will help WFAC, address, “gender stereotypes that exist across communities and ensure that there is at least some level of understanding regarding the legal instruments that exist in our country”.

Commission ready to formalize partnership

Prof Endeley assured the NGO of the right commission’s desire to formalise their partnership. She said the Commission’s proven commitment and reliability in championing the respect and promotion of human rights leaves such partnerships at the heart of its activities. 

The Commission, Prof Endeley went on, will provide WFAC with technical support through the right body’s regional branches across the five-concerned regions of the project. She disclosed that such will be under the youth-led Human Rights Clubs of the Commission.

“The collaboration was informal before; now we are trying to structure it into a formal cooperation. The first thing we have asked is that Women for a Change is going to establish an affiliation,” She noted, assuring that, after affiliation, “…we are going to try to look into the statement of partnership after which we are going to propose to the President a couple of actions to take”.

Rights of the girl child, rights of women, and issues of gender inequality and discrimination, patriarchy, how they construct women and the boy child, and the effects, Prof Endeley said, remains preoccupying.

“We are hoping that we will work together to see how to address those issues, address the parents who are concerned and the community that are concerned especially girls,” Prof Endeley noted.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3874 of Monday August 10, 2026