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We the undersigned participants at a strategic meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, held in Cape Town on 3-4 May under the auspices of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), wish to communicate the following key… Read more
News from AWDF
Between 2001 and 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) disbursed US$4,247,740.24 in grant-making to women’s rights and national organisations across the African continent. The majority of this funding has supported small community based… Read more
The ‘Creative Centre for Communication and Development’ (CCCD) based in Zimbabwe is a grantee partner of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). CCCD specialises in utilising information and communication technologies (ICT) to advance women’s… Read more
The board and staff of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) welcome the appointment of H.E. Mary Robinson as the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa. It is our belief that she will bring her passion for human… Read more
On the 10th of March, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and the African Feminist Forum (AFF) organised a panel discussion on ‘What’s new in African feminisms: Pop, People and Politics’ as part of the WOW festival at the Southbank Centre in… Read more
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Prudence Mabele is the Executive Director of the ‘Positive Women’s Network’ (PWN) in South Africa, an organisation that supports women living positively. To date, PWN has received US$210,000 in grants from the African Women’s Development Fund… Read more
Alliance Française (Accra) and the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to announce that Fatoumata Diabate, an award winning photographer, will be teaching a basic photography workshop at Alliance Francaise (Accra) from 9am-12pm… Read more
“AWDF’s support towards CAFENEC has been immense and immeasurable. AWDF’s support has opened more promising avenues to CAFENEC. The impact made by the AWDF funded widowhood rites project, has attracted partners such as GTZ/GIZ and Partnership… Read more
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PROGRAMMES SPECIALIST, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Background The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant making foundation, which aims to support the work of the African women’s movement for peace, equality, sustainable development and… Read more
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In 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a total of 905 grant applications from 35 Africancountries. A total of 187 organisations from 32 African countries were awarded grants of $2,176,500 in the following thematic areas:… Read more
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The AWDF offices will be closed from the 20th of December 2012 until the 6th of January 2013. Please click here to read the ‘End of Year Letter’ from Theo Sowa, CEO of AWDF. We wish you the best of the festive season. From left to right:… Read more
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Please click AWDF Activity Report 2011 to download. Please click 2011 Audited Accounts to download AWDF’s audited accounts report for 2011. A number of AWDF staff at the 3rd African Feminist Forum. From left to right: Rose, Sophia, Rissi,… Read more
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Do you wish to give a gift to AWDF? You can give to AWDF via our sister organisation AWDF-USA by supporting the ‘Mother Africa’ campaign. For our donors in the USA: Did you know that if you give to AWDF USA in 2012, you could get a 100%… Read more
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Prof Sesae Mpuchane, Incoming Board Chair, AWDF The Executive Board of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to announce that in January 2013 Professor Sesae Mpuchane will take over as Chair of the Executive Board of AWDF…. Read more
AWDF has supported 15 grantee partners across the continent to carry out a range of activities to mark World Aids Day. The following are examples of some of the work that grantee partners will carry out. The ‘Centre for Legal Rights Education,… Read more
AWDF has supported 20 African women’s rights organisations to carry out activities marking 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. These are: Action Group for Community Development (AGCD) – Burundi Africa Women’s Development and… Read more
The Co-Founders of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Her Excellency Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, First Lady of Ekiti State, Nigeria; Ms Joana Foster, Head of Mission, medica mondiale, Liberia; and Dr Hilda Tadria, Executive Director of… Read more
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AWDF is pleased to support the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) Africa for the third consecutive year. The IWRM Africa takes place 27th-30th November 2012 in Kampala, Uganda. AWDF has awarded IWRM Africa a grant of $30,000 and… Read more
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From the 19 – 21st November 2012, AWDF will hold a 3 day skills building workshop on ‘Rights and Results Based Programming’ (RBP) in Johannesburg, South Africa, for 30 grantee partners from the Southern Africa region (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe,… Read more
