WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS
AWDF funds the work of organisations which prioritise the following areas:
Women in the DRC
- 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 infringe upon women’s human rights.
- Harmonisation of national laws and constitutions in line with regional and international commitments and standards.
- Training in leadership and advocacy for public advocates on women’s human rights.
- Establishing national and regional networks to promote and advocate for women’s human rights.
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Beneficiaries of Abantu’s (Nigeria) political leadership programme
AWDF funds organisations which prioritise the following:
- Programmes that create an enabling environment that will allow women to participate more in public policy enhance the capacities of women leaders and achieve social justice.
- Media and communications strategies which support gender equity and women’s participation in political processes
- Getting more women into decision-making positions in the government, corporate and social sectors and capacity building support for women’s participation in political leadership.
- Capacity building for providing the necessary conceptual, analytical and practical tools for leadership skills and training for women.
- Leadership development training which emphasises awareness raising, self-esteem, inter-generational and capacity building programs.
PEACE BUILDING
AWDF supports organisations which prioritise the following:
- Development of early warning mechanisms and post-conflict reconstruction mechanisms.
- Building partnerships for information sharing, advocacy and campaigning on conflict prevention and conflict resolution.
- Education and awareness raising on the role of women in peace-building and conflict resolution.
- Monitoring women’s participation in conflict prevention and peace-building.
- Support for processes and policy reform to stop the manufacture, importation and use of small arms in order to facilitate the promotion of a culture of peace.
- Exchange and mentoring programmes for women leaders working on conflict issues.
- Capacity building for conflict resolution and training on conflict management skills.
- Information sharing and partnership development for research on women’s role in conflict mediation and resolution.
- Research and documentation of women’s’ role in conflict resolution.
HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
AWDF funds organisations, which prioritise the following areas:
- Provision for training local, regional and national officials, as well as leaders of co-operatives, associations and NGOs, so that they can oversee and support community health programmes.
- Programmes to combat harmful traditional practices.
- Monitoring health care provision and delivery systems for women especially primary care.
- Advocacy and campaigning for gender sensitive health care delivery systems.
- Partnerships with health care providers for awareness raising and education about gender sensitive health care provision.
- Institutional support and capacity building for community based health care providers.
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Baskets for sale by Single Mothers Association, Ghana
AWDF supports organisations which prioritise the following:
- Address information gaps and develop training programmes for women entrepreneurs.
- Community based income-generating schemes for women with a holistic approach.
- Monitoring of legal and financial frameworks which discriminate against women’s economic empowerment.
- Provision of advice and support to women on financial matters.
- Provision of accessible technology to enable women to access finance and markets.
- Capacity building and training for community based finance providers.
- Co-ordination and capacity building of women’s finance organisations.
- Training for women in management, entrepreneurship and negotiating skills.
- Establishment of information infrastructure, including databases and business centres.
- Advocacy activities which target international financial institutions, African governments, the private sector, sub-regional and regional organisations.
HIV/AIDS
Heal Project Malawi
AWDF will fund organisations which prioritise the following areas:
- Enhancing the status of women and girls and protecting their rights
- Protecting women’s rights to own and inherit property and land.
- Programmes to combat harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, widowhood rights, child marriage, etc.
- Promoting a culture of non-tolerance to all forms of violence against women.
- Harmonisation of national laws and constitutions in line with regional and international commitments and standards to avoid inconsistencies.
- Eradication of discrimination and violations of women’s human rights through legal and policy reform.
- Creating opportunities for women and girls to make empowering choices
- Economic empowerment and skills building programs to lift women out of dire poverty and break the cycle of vulnerability.
- Leadership development programs for women in communities to give them more access to decision-making.
- Capacity building to strengthen women’s organisations working on HIV/AIDS issues in order to make them more visible, better resourced and more effective.
