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Wangari Kinoti has over two decades of experience working alongside feminist, labour and social justice movements across national, regional and global spaces. Her work explores the intersections of care, women’s labour and structural violence and feminist, aiming to build feminist alternatives that redistribute power and resources and challenge global inequalities. Her experience spans political participation, land rights, corporate accountability and extractives, unpaid care and domestic work, decent and dignified work, public services and social protection. She has researched and written on public-private partnerships, post-Covid economic policy in Africa, austerity, public services, care in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area, labour migration, financial imperialism and reparative justice.

Wangari is active in various Third World/South feminist spaces working towards building radical, caring futures for Africa and beyond. She is currently the Global Lead for Women’s Rights and Feminist Alternatives at ActionAid International, an Associate of Nawi Afrifem Collective, and a member of the South Feminist Futures collective.

Written by Wangari Kinoti

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   Advancing gender equality in and through education 27 October 2026

   Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens

   Wangari Kinoti

   Sixty years ago, a Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers recognised that teachers’ pay, working conditions, professional autonomy and public standing were inseparable from the quality of education provided to children, and explicitly identified teacher shortages as a problem requiring action. Why, sixty years later, are we confronting...

   Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens