The African Women’s Development Fund’s Health and Safety Technical Support Project provided food and health safety technical support to 11 small – medium sized women’s rights organisations in Ghana engaged in food production and processing activities. The training programme offers useful and practical help to women food producers and processors to ensure a safe and […]
Advocacy Actions & Other Interventions on FOI Freedom of information (FOI) – also commonly referred to ‘access to information’ or ‘right to know’ or ‘right to information’ – is a fundamental and undeniable basic human right. The right to access public information is the right of every person to know, to have access to the […]
Broadly, a women focused website and digital video channel, has debuted a short documentary on Boxgirls Kenya, a community outreach programme, that focuses on young women and girls’ sexual and health rights. Founded in 2008 by professional boxers, Boxgirls Kenya uses boxing as a tool to tackle issues of sexual and gender based violence affecting young women and girls […]
The Feminist Organisational Development Tool (French) The Feminist Organisational Development Tool (OD Tool) has been developed in response to the identified need for a mechanism by which to operationalise The Feminist Charter. It is designed to be used as a tool for organisational development and learning, training, staff and board development, monitoring and evaluation, peer review […]
The Feminist Organisational Development Tool (English) The Feminist Organisational Development Tool (OD Tool) has been developed in response to the identified need for a mechanism to operationalise The Feminist Charter. It is designed to be used as a tool for organisational development and learning, training, staff and board development, monitoring and evaluation, peer review and exchange, […]
Position: Program Officer, Anti-Harmful Practices Deadline: October 15th, 2015 Background (About Equality Now) Equality Now, an international human rights organization dedicated to ending violence and discrimination against women and girls globally, is seeking an experienced Program Officer to manage the ‘Enhancing Collaboration and Legal Action to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM)’ project. […]
PhotoCredit: Michael Duff | Women in The Survivor Dream Project By Fatou Wurie Magdalene is confident as she introduces herself to the group of nineteen survivors. “My name is Magdalene and I am a nurse, I survived Ebola. I caught it from work”. She stops there, smiles and names her gratitude for the day, “I […]
This report was a collaborative effort of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, UN Women Sierra Leone, OXFAM Sierra Leone and Statistics Sierra Leone who jointly partnered in order to generate national comprehensive data on the multi-sector impact of Ebola from a gender perspective in order to guide targeted and gender response […]
AWDF 2014 Activity Report The 2014 Activity Report shares in detail about our six (6) thematic areas, capacity building programs, advocacy and outreach initiatives, philanthropy objectives and much more.
It has been a great pleasure to work together with you. AWDF is a very professional and visionary organization. You achieve the objectives agreed on [and] reach target groups that are difficult to reach without your extensive network. Furthermore AWDF is always willing to share information, let others learn from your experiences etc. You have […]