Liberia, May 13 -- Monrovia: Women and male influencers came from counties where roads dissolve in the rainy season and where a female student was once told she could not run for school council president, simply because she was a woman.

The two days gathering, convened in a conference room at the Lutheran Compound and organized jointly by the Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH) and the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Liberia Chapter, carried the formal title of an "outcome harvest," to bring back the people who had lived a year-long political participation program and ask, plainly, whether any of it had mattered.

The Advancing Women's Political Participation project ran from March 2025 through April 2026, funded by UN Wome...