$3,000 to support Jacinta Nyachae, Executive Director of AIDS Law to participate in ICASA 2012

$30,000 to re-grant to selected LBTI and female sex worker groups in East Africa to undertake various human rights projects. This will strengthen individuals, organizations and networks of the LGBTI and sex worker movement and other sexual health and rights organizations.

$15000 is recommended as AWDF’s contribution for the construction and furnishing of a memorial library in honour of the late Dolphine M. A. Okech.

$10,000 to support African women’s efforts at creating an impact on the processes and outcomes of the Beijing +15 review and the 2010 CSW 54th Session.

$1,000 to undertake a community based campaign in six slum areas of Kisumu. The theme for the campaign is ‘Family Efforts Against Gender Based Violence’ as a community based strategy for addressing gender based violence issues.

$40,000 to collect and analyze the history of FEMNET and its contribution to the women’s movement in Africa, its gains and challenges. The information will be compiled into a book that will be disseminated as part of strategic information on African women’s development, equality and human rights to enhance advocacy efforts around gender.

$20,000 to support the completion of a film on the life and work of Ghanaian writer Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo, one of the most important feminist writers in Africa. Ghanaian Writer Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo was 70 years in 2011.

$30,000 to support women artistes participating in the 2011 High Vibes Festival. To create a DVD for AWDF’s popular culture project. The proposed project will help to raise the profile of African women artistes in Ghana, showcase the work of women artistes and demonstrate the power of music for social justice work.

A two year grant of $60,000 for the organizations’ various development projects and institutional support to address women’s reproductive health issues in communities in Greater Accra and Ashanti regions of Ghana.

$10,000 to support outreach programmes on issues of mental health and women’s reproductive health in selected markets in Accra and Tema within the Greater Accra region of Ghana.