Katherine Fleming Leadership Course for Women Leaders
This change provides an opportunity to extend the award’s reach helping more women leaders with an opportunity to learn and grow within their own communities.
The Course focuses on:
- emerging leaders from mid-level civil society organizations that align with co-operative movement, economic empowerment, protecting children, education, creating assets, health, and/or gender equality; and
- improving skills and capabilities required to enact economic agency so that women can build toward sustainable livelihoods.
Coady partnered with the Organization for Women in Self-Employment (WISE) in Ethiopia to host the course’s initial offering. Tsigie Haile, the 2024 Katherine Fleming award recipient and founder of WISE and Coady staff co-designed the course which took place in Addis Abba, Ethiopia June 16 to 20, 2025. Katie’s daughter, Madeline Zutt a Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Dallaire Institute, was present for the initial course.
Our intention is to continue to offer this course in sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with former Katherine Fleming award recipients while still recognizing the participants at StFX Homecoming each year. The course is made possible through the generosity of donors to the Katherine Fleming International Development Award.
“What have we said to the young women particularly, living in this world should not only be for self. We should live and contribute to the betterment of this world for others. When you get older, what you see is what have I done to this world? To others? It’s the most rewarding, a reward that you can get from your efforts if you have contributed to the betterment of the lives of others.”
News
Alumni Voice – Advocating for Women’s Inclusion in COVID-19 Response (Ghana)
As a national women’s rights network, NETRIGHT has issued two statements calling on the government to ensure COVID-19 interventions are responsive to the needs of the poor, including homeless women and the vulnerable in society. Also, NETRIGHT mobilised funds among women groups which has been donated to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) in Ghana to support its efforts in reaching out to vulnerable and homeless women and children.
Alumni Voice – Channels for Children’s and Youth’s Voice in Mombasa’s COVID-19 Response (Kenya)
In Mombasa, Kenya, organizations have decided to work together to address various children’s issues in the advent of COVID-19. The Mombasa County Child Rights Network (MCRN) is composed of organizations working for and with children. As a network we are focusing on child protection as a major governance issue, and are enabling children to participate, speak out, and create messages on COVID-19 to the world.
Award Recipient Furthers Work in Name of (late) Katherine Fleming
Grace is the Executive Director for the Foundation for Women Affected by Conflicts (FOWAC) in Uganda, where she has founded a new initiative inspired by Katherine Fleming’s legacy, called Skilling the Girl Child.