This year’s theme CONNECTEDNESS echoes through every chapter of our work. And to bring it fully to life, we chose the language of spices and cooking to share the story of Mawazo in 2024. After all, food is where science meets culture, where tradition meets...

If 2022 was our graduation year, then 2023 was our year of growth and growth and expansion – all grounded and guided by our new Strategic Plan. We started the year by launching our first continent-wide Call for Applications for our Fellowship Programme, drawing an...

One of the major highlights of the year was watching our 2021/2022 Mawazo Fellows graduate – 40 amazing women from 8 different countries around Africa, who are based at institutions in East Africa. During a three-day event, both the 2021/2022 Fellows as well as the...

2021 marked the Mawazo Institute’s fifth year in existence, and what a year it was! Above all, even as we continued to adapt to the second year of a global pandemic, 2021 was our great year of transition.In February, we launched our 2021/22 Mawazo Learning...

Mawazo’s position at the nexus of women’s empowerment and science gave us unique insight into how the pandemic played out on the continent in 2020. We were heartened as African health practitioners – many of them women –marshalled knowledge from the management of other infectious...

As we try to understand and respond to a rapidly changing public health crisis impacting every sector of our society, Mawazo is committed to playing its role in the region’s response. This includes doing our part to insulate both our team and beneficiaries from the...