Book Launch: “Gender Budgeting as a Tool for Poverty Reduction” The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) in partnership with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) is pleased to announce the launch of a research book “Gender Budgeting As A Tool For Poverty Reduction”

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a fundraising and grant-making initiative, which aims to support the work of the African Women’s movement.The vision of the AWDF is for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights.

Lesbians have always been present in various civil society movements, with gay men’s organizations, in feminist groups, as well as in the artistic sphere and in the fight for decolonization and independence of their country. In recent decades lesbians have been present in the fight for equal rights for women of colour, aborigen women, and […]

AWDF related News and Press release

Dear Friends, Today, September 8 is the International Literacy Day. The 43rd to be celebrated since it was initiated by UNESCO in 1965. Its aim is to highlight the

In Solidarity: Statement by South African feminists – Caster Semenya and Gender Discrimination – the ‘elephant in the room’ We write in response to the controversy surrounding the 800 m women’s world running champion, Caster Semenya and the flurry of articles surrounding this sad saga. Some of those championing Caster’s cause accuse those wanting to […]

In Solidarity: Statement in Support of Mary Robinson, Presidential Medal of Honor Awardee The African Women’s Development Fund(AWDF)supports the nomination of former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson for the [United States of America’s]Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mary Robinson has been a longtime friend and supporter of the African Women’s Development Fund. She […]

Did Obama say anything we did not already know? I thought I had heard all about the Obama speech (I have said on several occasions that he did not say anything I did not know) until recently when I heard two well educated and learned professionals discussing some of the ills in our society. They […]

Grantee Spotlight: Rural Women’s Movement in Swaziland An email update sent to Nafi Chinery, AWDF’s Capacity Building Officer: Feedback from Rural Women’s Movement (RWM), an AWDF grantee in Swaziland on their experiences at the recent International Resource Mobilisation Workshop (IWRM) held in Bangalore, India. AWDF supported RWM and 4 other grantees to attend the IWRM. […]

In Solidarity: African Women and Human Rights Organisations across Africa Women across Africa are appalled by the decision to try a Sudanese woman journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein and two others for violating the public dress code. African women and human rights organizations urged the court to dismiss the charges and abolish this repressive law against […]