Category: grantees
Youth Changers Kenya (YCK),
Youth Changers Kenya (YCK),
Youth Changers Kenya is a local organisation that was formed in 2015 by Venoranda Rebecca Kuboka to help address the issues of high rates of teenage pregnancy, lack of sexual reproductive health information and services and high prevalence of sexual violence within her community. With this grant, YCK will commemorate the 2020 Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence by using sports and structured information sharing to build the knowledge of young women on preventing VAWG and taking seriously their mental health and wellness.
Young Women’s Christian Association in Ethiopia (YWCA Ethiopia)
Young Women’s Christian Association in Ethiopia (YWCA Ethiopia)
YWCA was initially formed in 1952 and later ceased operations for 24 years, It was re-established in 2000 as an Ethiopian resident charity. The organisation’s mission is to become a strong people’s organisation, which upholds; gender equality, socio-economic welfare and youth leadership for nation building. With this grant, YWCA Ethiopia would enhance the livelihoods of 360 young women in informal small businesses in Arada Sub-City, Ethiopia. The young women will be trained and mentored in entrepreneurship and leadership skills and supported to advocate for their economic rights.
WoMin African Gender and Extractives Alliance (WoMin)
WoMin African Gender and Extractives Alliance (WoMin)
WoMin is a regional women’s rights organisation working across the continent with small and medium sized local organisations to protest and demand for alternatives to destructive extractivism by mobilising women from marginalised communities and building local capacities for environmental issues based advocacy. This grant will be used to continue the building of a grassroots women’s movement for climate justice and a just development alternative for Africa. The project seeks to empower grassroots women, who directly feel the impact of the extractive industry, to organise and engage duty bearers and the industry as well as provide alternatives for their welfare.
Women’s organisation Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA)
Women’s organisation Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA)
WONETHA was established in 2008 by three sex workers to address the challenges facing sex workers. The organisation’s mission is to improve the health, social and economic wellbeing of adult female sex workers in Uganda while advocating for their human rights. This grant will be used to address the SRHR challenges facing sex workers in Uganda by sensitising health workers; organising health outreach; sensitise sex workers on violence against women and comprehensive SRHR services; and partner Marrie Stopes to provide free contraceptives for sex workers.
Women’s Legal Centre (WLC)
Women’s Legal Centre (WLC)
The Women’s Legal Centre is an African feminist legal centre that develops the law, policy and feminist jurisprudence based on an intersectional approach with substantive equality as its foundation. The Centre was formed in 1998 by a group of feminist lawyers who sought to advance the constitutional rights of women in South Africa. The grant will be used to support activities that will ensure the recognition and protection of the labour rights of vulnerable and marginalized women workers who often do not have their work legally recognized, regulated or protected.
Women’s Initiative for Self-Actualization (WISA)
Women’s Initiative for Self-Actualization (WISA)
WISA was started in April 2004 by Ms. Uduak Enefiok to promote women’s rights, gender equality and sustainable development for poor and excluded women, youth and children. The AWDF grant will be used to create awareness on HIV/AIDS and related mental and emotional health and wellbeing issues. Part of the project will engage CSOs, government and stakeholders to identify and address the barrier to accessing mental and emotional health and wellbeing services for women and girls infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Women’s Health and Equal Rights Association Rwanda (WHERAR)
Women’s Health and Equal Rights Association Rwanda (WHERAR)
Women’s Health and Equal Rights Association Rwanda (WHERAR) was started in 2013 by 6 Rwandan women to create a platform for women to exchange ideas around how issues of VAWG could be addressed. WHERAR works to empower young women and girls with information and skill to challenge patriarchal structures that perpetuate inequality within communities and for women to demand for their rights. The grant awarded is to help WHERAR promote women and girls mental and physical wellbeing through increasing NCDs preventive knowledge in project communities.
Women, Infants and Children Care Initiative (WICCI)
Women, Infants and Children Care Initiative (WICCI)
Women, Infants and Children Care Initiative (WICCI) was started in 2005 by Mrs. Doyinsola Ajoke Adebayo to empower and support vulnerable women and children in the local communities. They advocate for the passing of a Bill on violence against persons living with disabilities and are also part of the COVID-19 Gender Response Team to put an end to incidences of VAWG. The grant will help to prevent VAWG and promote the mental health and wellness of women and girls through the use of arts, culture and sports.
Women Support and Activists Group (WOSAG)
Women Support and Activists Group (WOSAG)
WOSAG was started by a group of women activists from the Northern Region of Ghana to provide opportunities and space for women and girls, to mobilise, take and lead actions and improve their welfare through capacity building, advocacy and community mobilization. With this grant, WOSAG will strengthen its institutional capacity to deliver programming and support women groups led change in Northern Ghana.
Women Institute for Leadership Development (WILD)
Women Institute for Leadership Development (WILD)
WILD was formed in January 2012 by a group of women seeking to empower women and girls to move from the periphery to the core of economic, social and political activity. The organisation’s mission is to enhance the capacity of women and girls to participate in economic and environmental activities, influence structural changes and have access to capital and markets. The AWDF grant will be used to support female informal traders in rural and urban contexts to self-mobilise and conduct local and national level advocacy for economic and financial inclusion.