KATHERINE FLEMING
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP COURSE June 15 - 20, 2025 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Application deadline: March 18, 2025
This course is for persons from Sub-Saharan Africa who identify as women. Women are natural leaders and decision-makers, activists, and cycle-breakers who are claiming their rightful place as leaders addressing persistent and deeprooted inequalities. Katherine Fleming was one such woman leader. A graduate of St. Francis Xavier University class of 1985. Katie was committed to human rights and defense of those rights on behalf of children everywhere. At the age of 35, while working as a programme officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), she died at home in Tanzania in May 1999. Family and friends created the Katherine Fleming International Development Award in loving memory of her lifetime dedication to supporting the elimination of child poverty in Africa. To mark the 25th anniversary of the first presentation of the award Coady Institute and the Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE) are excited to continue to honour Katie’s memory and work by offering a course in sub-Saharan Africa in 2025. This course is grounded in relational practices, providing space for women leaders, both experienced and emerging, to come together and share concepts and tools to enhance upon already trusted leadership capacities. This 5-day course will guide you to identify and connect with your gifts and strengths, explore feminist movement building, while learning tools and frameworks that prioritize economic agency, justice, and inclusion. This learning experience is an opportunity to explore the abundance of strengths and gifts you hold as a community leader and build a supportive network with other women leaders with a focus on community–led, community-driven social change.
CO-HOSTED BETWEEN COADY INSTITUTE AND ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN SELF EMPLOYMENT (WISE) IN ETHIOPIA