SAWN Activities:

• Creating Awareness

• Awareness on basic unionism, women’s legal rights and issues such as Violence Against Women, Maternity Protection Benefits, HIV/AIDS, etc. Capacity building and leadership development Regular meetings of the women’s committees at various levels.School centred programmes
  
  

• Recruitment

• Recruitment and organizing campaigns
  
  

• Campaigns

• Campaign on Maternity Protection Benefits
  
  

• Publications & Media

• Publication of newsletters at national and sub regional levels.
• Preparation and publication of training manuals
• Preparation of campaign materials i.e. as posters, brochures, appeal cards, etc
  
  

• Research

• Conducting action research
• Documentation of the findings
  
  

• Organizing

• Establishment of joint coordination committees
• Establishment of contacts with other like minded and civil society organizations on the common issues and campaigns.
• Lobbying and advocacy with the government through the mother unions.
• Establishing links with Parent Teachers Associations and Mothers’ Associations.
  
  

• Mobilize

• Organize mass meetings and contact programmes
• Conducting gender sensitization programmes
• Mobilizing members and unions opinion to develop selfreliance and sustainability. women’s network