HerVoiceTruly: Peace Woman

Celebrating women’s voices and inspiring the future

HerVoiceTruly: Peace Woman is a storytelling and advocacy initiative by HAPEI that amplifies the voices, stories, experiences, and contributions of African women shaping peace and security, governance, humanitarian action, gender equality, and social change.

The initiative was created to challenge the narratives that overlook or undervalue women’s contributions to peace and development. Through storytelling and digital advocacy, HerVoiceTruly brings visibility to women whose leadership, courage, and everyday actions are helping to build safer, more inclusive, and more peaceful communities.

By sharing their journeys, achievements, challenges, and lessons, the initiative creates opportunities for women to be seen, heard, celebrated, and recognized while inspiring a new generation of young women to participate meaningfully in peacebuilding and leadership.

Our Impact

Through HerVoiceTruly: Peace Woman, HAPEI:

• Creates greater visibility for African women contributing to peace and social change.
• Amplifies women’s stories and experiences across peacebuilding, security, governance, humanitarian action, and development.
• Challenges stereotypes and narratives that limit recognition of women’s leadership and contributions.
• Inspires young women to see themselves as leaders, advocates, decision-makers, and builders of peace.
• Uses storytelling as a tool for advocacy, awareness, learning, and social change.
• Promotes the principles of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and meaningful women’s participation in peace and decision-making.
• Builds a growing body of stories that document and celebrate the diverse ways African women contribute to peaceful and resilient societies.

From Stories to Social Change

We believe that every woman’s voice carries a story, and every story has the power to inspire change.

HerVoiceTruly: Peace Woman is more than a celebration of women. It is a call to recognize women’s leadership, create space for their voices, and ensure that women are not only represented in conversations about peace and development, but are actively shaping them.

Focus Areas:

• Women, Peace and Security
• Gender Equality
• Women’s Leadership
• Storytelling
• Advocacy
• Women’s Participation
• Peacebuilding
• Governance
• Humanitarian Action