African Women’s Development Fund

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About AWDF

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women’s empowerment. Through institutional capacity building and programme development, AWDF seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women’s movement.
The vision of AWDF is for African women to live in [...]

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Our values

Values and Principles:

We believe in the personhood of African women, and that their rights are an inalienable, indivisible and integral part of universal human rights.
We believe in acknowledging, valuing and rewarding women’s paid and unpaid labour in the private and public.
We believe in solidarity, partnerships, networking, and commitment to young women’s leadership and an inter-generational [...]

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Thematic focus

WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS
AWDF funds the work of organisations which prioritise the following areas:

Protecting and promoting women’s human rights.
Mobilisation of support for women’s rights at grassroots level through networking and empowerment of community based organisations (CBOs).
Research on harmful traditional practices and forms of violence against women, which infringe their basic human rights.
Monitoring policies and legislation which [...]

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