Year: 2018
Beyond Tie Dye: Rethinking African Women’s Economies and the role of Funders.
Beyond Tie Dye: Rethinking African Women’s Economies and the role of Funders.
Jessica Horn, AWDF’s Director of programs was interviewed by News Deeply! See an excerpt below-and follow the read the entire interview.
Don’t talk to Jessica Horn about tie dye. The director of programs for the African Women’s Development Fund doesn’t have time for women’s advancement projects that lean on an age-old standby: artisanal crafts.
“One of the most common post-conflict reconstruction initiatives in economic empowerment is teaching women to make soda soap and to do tie dye,” she says. “Now you’re flooding the market with sub-standard tie-dyed cloth. Who’s going to buy it?”
To become real economic players, equal to men, Horn says, women need a say in the decisions that affect them. Which is why every project the African Women’s Development Fund supports has to meet at least two goals: increased income generation and greater political participation.
At the Bond conference in London, News Deeply spoke to Horn about the relationship between economics and politics, and the trouble with “women’s work.”
For the entire interview click here: http://bit.ly/2oQb5ai
#She Decides 2018
#She Decides 2018
Every girl and every woman has the right to health and the right to do what she chooses with her body. These rights affect her personal development, her participation in society, her livelihood and whether her family and community thrives.
#SheDecides is a global movement to promote, provide, protect and enhance the fundamental rights of every girl and woman and ensure that every girl and every woman can safely exercise her right to decide for herself what she does with her body, who she shares her body with and whether she wants to have children.
In a #SheDecides conference held in South Africa on 2nd March 2018, our Grants Manager, Beatrice Boakye-Yiadom spoke on Unlocking the Resources to ensure that girls and women everywhere have access to the right information and a full range of services, so that they really can decide. This means finding and spending the money from governments, foundations, donors, individuals so that all women and girls have the services, information and education they need to decide.
For more information on how to support the movement click here