The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be participating in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York, USA, as well as several parallel events, February 27th -8th March, 2010.
On Monday 1st of March, 2010, AWDF will hold the New York launch of an exciting new publication ‘Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists” during the African Women’s Caucus. This event will take place between 2.00pm – 4.00pm on the 8th floor of the Church Centre. A number of African feminists featured in the book will be present at the launch. AWDF will also be participating in the launch of the African Regional Shadow Report for Beijing + 15 which it has supported.
AWDF, as part of its commitment to promote learning and the sharing of experiences on a local, national and international level will be supporting the following national and regional partners to participate in this year’s CSW in New York:
- African Women’s Communication and Development Network (FEMNET)
- ABANTU for Development (Ghana)
- Federation of Women Lawyers (Ghana)
- Young Women’s Christian Association (Zimbabwe)
- Inter-African Committee on Harmful Traditional Practices (IAC)
- Nigeria Gender Budget Network (NGBN)
- Women’s Consortium of Nigeria
- Network for Women’s Rights (Ghana)
According to AWDF’s Executive Director, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, “Supporting African women’s rights organizations to participate in key international convening’s such as the CSW is critical to the work that we do at AWDF. It is important that the voices of African women are represented at all levels of policy and dialogue especially at this key juncture where women around the world are debating action and accountability around the Beijing Platform for Action”.
AWDF’s delegation to this year’s CSW includes Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (Executive Director), Dr Hilda Tadria (Board Chair), Sarah Mukasa (Director of Programs), Roselyn Musa (Information and Documentation Officer) and Nana Sekyiamah (Communications Officer).
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organizations in Africa working towards women’s empowerment. AWDF, through institutional capacity building and program development 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 a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilize financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women, which will lead to the achievement of this vision. Since its establishment in 2000, AWDF has funded over 1,000 women’s groups in 46 African countries.
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Nana Sekyiamah – Programme Officer (Fundraising & Communications)
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Email: nana@awdf.org
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i am a young teenage Ghanaian girl and going through your page i am really moved in helping both our mothers and young girls into wonderful women .i wish to help financially but i cant because i don’t work so i would want to offer some voluntary service whenever i am available.
God richly bless you in the work you do for the smiles you put on our women’s faces