Year: 2019
AWDF Grantee Recognition Survey 2019
AWDF Grantee Recognition Survey 2019
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Pan-African grant making organisation that funds local, national and regional autonomous women’s rights organisations in Africa and the Middle East, that are working towards the promotion and realisation African Women’s Rights. Since the beginning of its operation in 2001, AWDF has awarded grants and provided technical support to over 1,340 women’s organisations in 43 out of the 54 countries in Africa and since 2017 in 2 countries in the Middle East. As part of the methods AWDF employs to assess the impact her grantees have made and are still making in the lives of women in their various project areas and on the continent at large, an annual Grantee Recognition Survey is conducted. This forms part of AWDF’s monitoring, evaluation and learning instruments. The survey seeks to identify achievements of past grantees, and highlight those whose partnership with AWDF contributed to said awards or recognitions. It also serves as a way of following up with grantees whose grants have ended.
The AWDF grantees are doing a tremendous job in line with AWDF’s vision of having “A world where all African women live in peace, with dignity and justice and where there is equality and respect for women’s rights”. This is through their tireless efforts of fighting for social justice in their communities,
contributing to the improved living conditions of beneficiaries and also increase recognition and inclusion of women’s rights issues in the development agenda at various levels.These genuine efforts have earned them recognition, awards and influence in their localities / communities, countries, the continent and beyond. The survey showcases the recognition / awards of AWDF’s grantees and also highlights the role AWDF played. These awards / recognitions come in different forms and AWDF seeks to systematically track and document such recognitions / awards annually. For the 2019 Grantee Recognition Survey, questionnaires were sent through Google forms to 61 organisations in 22 countries (48 organisations in 16 Anglophone countries and 13 organisations in 6 Francophone Countries) who were awarded with grants of US$5,000 and above in 2017. The sections below present the findings gathered from the responses received.
Read the full Recognition Survey Here
Call for Consultants: Leading from the South : Animated Introduction Video
Call for Consultants: Leading from the South : Animated Introduction Video
Introduction
Leading from the South (LFS) is a feminist philanthropic fund and alliance conceptualised and managed by four leading women’s funds: African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS), International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) / AYNI Fund (AYNI), and Women’s Fund Asia (WFA). LFS supports women’s rights activism and lobbying efforts by women’s organisations, movements and networks at the regional, national, and grassroots levels in the Global South. It is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Under the umbrella of LFS, the four implementing funds:
• Provide funding in the form of innovative and flexible grants to women’s organisations
and change agents in the Global South.
• Invest in capacity building through technical and financial resourcing to strengthen
capacities of change agents.
• Promote advocacy by supporting women’s movements and networks in the Global
South.
• Contribute to build partnerships across strategic regional and global alliances, and
provide critical spaces for South-South learning, and advancing the human rights of
women and girls.
The core objective of the Leading from the South grants is to support organizations to scale up their strategies for political, social, and economic empowerment of women. LFS grants
largely support women’s rights work across these priority areas: climate change and environmental justice; leadership, voice-agency and women’s political participation; violence
against women, and women’s economic justice. Women’s funds, organisations, groups, and movements have been at the forefront of advocacy on the human, economic, and social rights of women and girls for decades. There are currently 37 women’s funds worldwide working under the umbrella of Prospera, the International Network of Women’s Funds, to support grassroots-led efforts towards sustainable and inclusive social change in over 170 countries. Twenty-six of the funds are based in the Global South, including the four LFS member funds.
Women’s funds in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean play a crucial role in ensuring availability, diversification, and sustainability of
funding for interventions committed to advancing the rights of women and girls. Women’s funds in the Global South also serve as important allies and advocates for local change agents
and grassroots organisations working under oppressive systems and environments to advance human rights and social justice. Together, they strive against marginalisation, violence, and discrimination against women and girls in attaining and enjoying their civil, economic, cultural, social, and political human rights.
Objectives of the Call
The main objective is to produce two animated videos to visibilize the importance of Leading from the South and women’s funds based in the Global South.
Although similar in their missions, each of the four women’s funds has its own organisational structures, processes and strategies for communicating both internally and externally, and
operate within unique regional contexts. Furthermore, each of the four funds is already established in the national, regional, and global women’s rights landscapes. Consequently,
LFS communications aims to capture the diverse voices and experiences at the local, national, and regional levels; as well as advocating for the shared vision of the full enjoyment of human rights by all women and girls, trans* and indigenous people in the Global South. This set of videos is promoted by the LFS Communication Working Group, integrated by staff of the four funds, as part of the activities planned for 2019 of the Joint Communication Strategy.
This strategy includes three goals:
- Goal 1: Communicate effectively about LFS with a diverse yet unified voice
- Goal 2: Establish LFS as a key advocacy partner
- Goal 3: Promote LFS-LED advocacy and learning for stakeholder action
The videos should promote the overarching message of LFS being a feminist fund dedicatedto resourcing, supporting and boosting human rights advocacy for women and girls in the
Global South. They should focus on why LFS exists, how stakeholders can engage, why fundingwomen’s rights in the Global South is important and what is the role of Women’s Funds from the Global South in strengthening women’s rights organizations and movements as drivers of social progress.