AMPLIFY CHANGE A multi-donor challenge fund to support civil society advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights, AmplifyChange aims to empower young people, men and women to realise their sexual and reproductive rights.The fund is managed by a consortium that includes ManionDaniels Global Fund for Women and the African Women’s Development Fund. Our […]

The Capacity Building Resource Mobilisation Boot Camp is a taylor made mix of contemporary training and intensive hands on practical work where representatives of AWDF Grantees come together, usually for four to five days during which they are facilitated to develop Resource Mobilisation Strategies for their organisations.   Find the report for the last capacity […]

-By Beatrice Boakye Yiadom, Grants Manager, AWDF The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) congratulates the 50/50 Group on the commissioning of the Women’s Leadership Training Centre which will serve as a hub for learning and for equipping African women with the capacity to shape the future of Africa. We are proud to be associated with […]

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AWDF’s Grantees Recognition Survey forms part of its monitoring, evaluation and learning instruments used to access and ascertain the profound impact grantees are making in the lives of women and the continent at large. The survey showcases the recognition/awards received by AWDF’s grantees and also highlights the role AWDF played. With a mandate to fund […]

In line with our objective of sharing knowledge, AWDF regularly makes available resources and material aimed at building the capacity of our grantees and of our partners in general. The African Women’s Development Fund believes that resourcing the work of transformative women on the continent means more than disbursing grants. It means actively responding […]

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, co founder of the African Women’s Development Fund, has been appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the African Leadership Centre in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London in 2017. She is one of the three Co-Founders of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and served as the first Executive […]

The Manda coaching program is an opportunity for young women in second level leadership to come together and learn from and with each other. On 11th October, the 4th CEO Forum was held in Accra, Ghana and brought together young leaders from across the continent whose organisations are making positive changes within their communities. The […]

The ECOWAS Court today, 12 October 2017, delivered its judgment in the case between Dorothy Njemanze and 3 others v The Federal Republic of Nigeria. The case centered on the violent, cruel, inhuman, degrading and discriminatory treatment the Plaintiffs suffered at the hands of law enforcement agents in Abuja Nigeria. The women by name, Dorothy […]