Women smallholder farmers comprise an average of 43 percent of the agricultural labour force of developing countries. In Africa in particular, many communities depend on women to grow most of the food they eat, yet they continue struggle with lack of access to capital, land, agricultural inputs, tools and technology needed to move up to large […]

…most people assume that someone with AIDS is immoral. They do not realize that there are other ways of transmission. They simply believe that if someone has AIDS, they must have acquired it through immoral behaviour. They associate you with criminals and hence discriminate against you”

Public Health Ambassadors Uganda (PHAU), a not-for-profit youth-led organisation, and a grantee of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), is running an anti-HIV stigma and discrimination project focusing specifically on young women and girls living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Dubbed “Tuli Wamu Nawe,” meaning “We are together with You”, the project aims to use peer education and training to help […]

“I learnt that it’s never the victim’s fault to be raped”

Monday 16 November 2015 PRESS RELEASE: Kenyan girl-led charity wins international award for outstanding work Local charity Boxgirls Kenya is one of just 20 organisations from around the world to receive an inaugural With and For Girls Award. The With and For Girls Awards is a global initiative to identify and support strong local organisations […]

PRESS RELEASE 19th November 2015   African Women’s Development Fund validates Market Women’s Research Study: Accelerating the Contributions of Market Women to National and Regional Development in West Africa Accra, GHANA – The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has called on West African governments to enact policies supporting market women at both national and regional […]

Read the original story posted to Graphic Online The Network of Women in Growth (NEWIG) Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, has launched a project that will build the capacity of women entrepreneurs and small holder farmers in the Adansi South District in the Ashanti Region. Known as the “Economic governance project,” the two-phased project, funded by […]

New Report shows how African Rural Women hold the key to cultivating Diversity, Climate Change Resilience and Nutrition but are threatened by Agri-business practices and seed monopoly laws as climate change worsens. As delegates from around the world prepare to meet at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, a new report from the African Biodiversity […]

As African women we stand in solidarity with Afro-Brazilian women as you take to the streets in the Marcha das Mulheres Negras [Black Women’s March] and raise your voices to say NO to racist and sexist violence, and to affirm that you, as all women, have a right to live with full choice, dignity, well-being and […]

Read the original piece posted on AWID here Marching in Solidarity: Marcha Das Mulheres Negras Musings on Solidarity By Amina Doherty November 16th, 2015 As an activist I often think about what it means to ‘be in solidarity with’ and what it means to use my body, heart, and voice to amplify the stories and struggles […]