About the program

Resources

Partners

Closing event

About the program

“She excels in science: Afro-women rule!” is a programme, co-organized by the Women’s Studies and Social Transformation (WSST) Program and Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information for Africa (BAIFA), to promote African women’s role in science.  Within this programme, we aim to increase the visibility of African women’s activities and involvement in the scientific field, influence African women to pursue more roles and work in science, as well as encourage more scientific career choices among females in general and African women in particular. This is in alignment with goal 5 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Through this program, we support:

• Women who play a significant role in the advancement of Science in Africa
• Women who are seeking science careers through research, and trainings
• An equal access for women and men to science education, as well as access for women to education in non-traditional subject areas

The program has been launched on the International Women day, 8^th of March 2018. 

BAIFA Resources

The first phase of the “She Excels in Science” program has been conducted through BAIFA website and different social media channels since the 8^th of March 2018, aiming to promote the BAIFA resources which best cover the program topics and greatly help the interested researchers and the postgraduate students.

Selective resources from BAIFA’s collection that best cover the topic: 

• Applying a gender lens to science, technology and innovation 
  2011 , Bhalla, Praveen Report
• Rural women and the millennium development goals 
  2012] , Fact Sheet
• Gender and ICTs for development : a global sourcebook 
  2005 , E-Book/ E-Book Chapter
• Community mothers 
  2002 , Molloy, B. E-article
• What works for women : proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security 
  2012 , Tripathi, R., Chung, Y.B., Deering, K., Saracini, N., Willoughby, R., Wills, O., Mikhail, M., Warburton, H., Jayasinghe, D., Rafanomezana, J., Churm, M. Report
• Women's land rights in southern Africa : consolidated baseline findings from Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe 
  2009 , Kachika, T. Report

Download the full bibliography

Partners

The program was conducted in partnership with:

BA Women Studies and Social Transformation (WSST) Program

 WSST’s core activity is to conduct research in several major areas of women, gender issues and social transformation across history. It houses its own data collection program. A range of quantitative and qualitative methods are used, and increasingly, research projects follow a multi-method approach. Wide-range public opinion surveys, polls, research papers, scientific bulletins, articles, periodical newsletters amongst other publications are maintained under a comprehensive research program.

WSST also designs and implements awareness programs targeting audience of a wide range of backgrounds. Training materials are developed in-house, with continuous monitoring and evaluation to ensure that it enhances the capabilities of the trainees and contributes to capacity building of target population. Training of trainers, Internet-based workshops, youth forums and group discussions are also provided.

Closing event

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina organized a Roundtable discussion within the framework of the program “She Excels in Science: Afro-women Rule!”, co-organized by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information for Africa (BAIFA) and the Women’s Studies and Social Transformation (WSST) Program. The Roundtable discussion took place on Wednesday, the 21^st of November, at 10:30am, in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center – Multipurpose Hall.

Moderated by Dr. Imane Haggag, Associate Professor in Applied Languages, Faculty of Arts - University of Alexandria, the roundtable discussion brings together : Professor Nagwa Abdel Meguid, Egyptian geneticist and laureate of the L’Oréal UNESCO Award for Women in Science for Africa and the Middle East; Professor Mona K. Marei, Professor of prosthetic Dentistry, founder and head of tissue engineering science and technology/laboratories-Alexandria University; Dr. Yasmine Aguib, Head of Life Sciences Research at the Aswan Heart Centre (Magdi Yacoub Foundation, Egypt) and Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London ; and Ms. Nahla Mokhtar, Corporate Communication Manager, L’Oréal Foundation.

Speakers' Interventions:  

Success Stories:

In this context a number of Egypt-resident African students at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the African and Asian Affairs section in the Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport, were invited to share their own success stories.

Extra links:

• Watch the entire event - Part 1
• Watch the entire event - Part 2
• Event's poster - English version 
• Event's poster - Arabic version
• The event's album of photos
• The event booklet