Category: grantees
Women in Law and Development Togo
Women in Law and Development Togo
WiLDAF- Togo is a member of the pan African network, Women in Law and Development. The network was formed in Harare Zimbabwe in 1990, however, the Togo chapter was officially opened in 1999. WiLDAF- Togo works to defend and promote the legal, economic, and socio-cultural rights of women, fight against violence against women and girls, promote women’s participation in decision making, promote maternal health and reduce obstetric fistula. The grant awarded is to help WiLDAF-Togo commemorate the 2020 sixteen days of activism against gender based violence on the theme, “together against VAWG to preserve women’s mental well-being”.
Women in Law and Development in Africa – Afrique de l’Ouest (WILDAF-AO)
Women in Law and Development in Africa – Afrique de l’Ouest (WILDAF-AO)
Women in Law and Development (WILDAF) – West Africa was founded by a group of women activists for women’s rights, who gathered in Harare, Zimbabwe in February 1990. The grant awarded is to help WiLDAF – AO advocate for the needs and rights of women and girls to be centred in all public policies to be implemented in 6 West African countries post COVID 19. The activities will include a review and analysis of national policies and measures on the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls and advocacy at the national and sub-regional level for the centering of women and girls’ rights in national policies including the equitable inclusion of women in decision making spaces that deliberate on these policies.
Women in front Cameroon (WIFC)
Women in front Cameroon (WIFC)
Women in Front Cameroon (WiFC) was formed in 2016 by 3 young feminist and LBTQ activists. WiFC works to mobilise LBQ women and girls to take up leadership positions and ensure sexual and reproductive health of women and girls of all sexual orientations and gender identities and provides them with STI care and treatment services. With the AWDF grant, WiFC will mount an advocacy campaign that will speak against VAWG especially against women living with HIV and AIDS. The grant will be used to organise psychological counselling sessions, form discussion groups among women survivors of violence and those living with HIV/AIDS and produce a short film to denounce VAWG
Women Challenged to Challenge
Women Challenged to Challenge
Women Challenged to Challenge was started by seven (7) women with disabilities with the aim of bringing together women with different disabilities in Kenya to address matters affecting their lives. With the grant, Women Challenged to Challenge will promote participation of women living with disabilities in politics. This will be done through sensitization on participation of WWD in leadership, campaigns on WWD’s right to leadership/political participation and the establishment of a network of WWD with political aspiration in 4 counties in Kenya.
Women & Community Livelihood Foundation (WOCLIF)
Women & Community Livelihood Foundation (WOCLIF)
Women & Community Livelihood Foundation (WOCLIF) was established in 2009 by Uduak Umoh, the current executive director to support widows. The organisation is known for being at the forefront in the fight against violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. The grant will be used to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of women and especially young women living with HIV/AIDS through community education on the challenges faced by women living with HIV/AIDS as it affects their emotional and mental health.
Voice of Mitooma
Voice of Mitooma
Voice of Mitooma is an association of female environmental journalists and environmental human rights defenders (HRDs). The organisation was founded in 2016 by two young female journalists to empower women to manage the world in a sustainable way. The funds from this grant will be used to mobilize grassroots women to resist environmental injustices, build protection networks and advocate for the promotion and protection of women’s environmental rights in Uganda.
Une Femme qui en Soulève une Autre (FESA)
Une Femme qui en Soulève une Autre (FESA)
Une Femme qui en Soulève une Autre (FESA) is a women-led organisation founded in 2002 by seven women committed to the fight against discrimination and violence faced by rural women. FESA aims to work with grassroots communities to dismantle the barriers that prevent women and girls from fully realising their rights including accessing justice and economic rights. The grant is to help mobilise women farmers, train them on their rights, organise them into cooperatives and support them to engage stakeholders on their rights to land. The women’s cooperatives will also be trained in climate smart agriculture and in the use of technology to enhance agricultural activities.
Transgender equality Uganda (TEU),
Transgender equality Uganda (TEU),
Transgender Equality Uganda (TEU) was started in April 2011 by Karungi Beyonce, a Ugandan transgender woman and a trans woman activist after noticing that transgender women’s issues were being neglected by the Ugandan LGB movement and trans sex workers’ issues were being ignored by the sex work movement in Uganda. With this grant, TEU will advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of trans women and girls. Part of the grant would be used to commemorate the 2021 International Women’s Day Celebration.
Together We Can Foundation(TWCF)
Together We Can Foundation(TWCF)
Together We Can Foundation (TWCF) is a women-led organisation founded in 2012 by Bukavu women and girls from University of Bukavu with the aim to create a safe community by empowering women with information on gender-based violence, women’s rights, health promotion, livelihood issues among others. The grant awarded will be used to empower women and girls with greater access to NCDs information and services and to establish improved coordination and participation of key stakeholders in NCDs prevention.
Temeke & Kisarawe Network of Girls living with HIV
Temeke & Kisarawe Network of Girls living with HIV
CHESO was started in 2006 by a group of poor women who were concerned and committed to prevent the high number of school girl drop-outs due to neglect, sexual abuse, exploitation and mental violence suffered by girls. CHESO hosts the Temeke & Kisarawe Network of Girls living with HIV. This is a network of girls and young women living with HIV/AIDS and accessing treatment. With this grant, they will organise a retreat for young women and girls living with HIV/AIDS in Temeke and Kisarawe districts of Uganda to provide them with some knowledge and skills needed to effectively take care of their mental health and emotional wellbeing.