The Women in Political Participation Watch is a tool used to monitor the red flags faced by Women in Politics. This tool aims at monitoring and effecting change with an end goal to reduce violence against women in the political arena.

The tool achieves this by giving women in politics a voice to share their stories across the continent and amplify their struggles, which in turn will help in the consolidation of common solutions to these unique, yet similar challenges that they face in their different political arenas.

The deeply entrenched patriarchy in African societies continues to be a major cause of this politically repressive environment. Many women have stayed out of politics for fear of being targeted with abuse and in some cases murder threats. In particular, the platform brings to the fore individual attacks on women politicians by state agents, fellow politicians, media and the electorate.