Women’s Association for Women & Victims’ Empowerment (WAVE-Gambia) is a women’s rights, women-led organisation that was established in 2019. Our niche as a women’s organisation that is also working in remote areas, is our focus and proximity to victims of rights violations. We are heavily invested in the ongoing transitional justice process in The Gambia. WAVE works with women and girls with disabilities as well as survivors of sexual violence with whom we’re co-creating to echo voices on human and  women‘s rights as well as women’s empowerment programs.

WAVE is expressly committed to activism, promoting an intersectional lens to address gender inequalities, discrimination, exclusion, and accountability. We similarly engage in gender-specific research, strategic litigation and have produced several knowledge products.

We’re currently one of the only women’s organizations that provides arts-based approaches to promote trauma healing for victims and survivors of human rights violations under our creative arts programs. Through our flagship Kaira Bengho ka Kairo Balundi Initiative, we facilitate listening and talking circles, social cohesion, individual and community healing and reconciliation initiatives in communities still reeling from state-endorsed human rights violations and abuses.

Part of our goal is to provide holistic support to victims and survivors, such as to address their needs for accountability, reparations, (restorative) justice, and healing and contribute to awareness raising and advocacy on human and women’s rights, including for gender justice.