AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS Are you an African women’s rights organisation, activist, practitioner, researcher, storyteller, artist, writer or an individual/organisation who deeply cares about the prevention of Violence Against Women (VAW)? AWDF is excited to introduce this Introductory Guide for African Women’s Organisations which offers critical insights for you and your work. […]
IS THIS YOU? We are looking for a dynamic Bilingual Programme Officer with Accounting background for a short-term consultancy. As a grant making foundation, due diligence processes are very critical for AWDF risk management processes. These processes start from the pre-award stage where financial; information from the grant applicants are reviewed and continue after the […]
Calling African Feminist MEL Experts We are looking for an experienced consultant with expertise in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) and with a special focus on women’s rights work in Africa to undertake a Baseline study for the Leading from the South (LFS) Phase two project. Interested applicants are encouraged to send their expression of […]
BUILDING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST SOLIDARITY AWDF and Black Women radicals are co-hosting a webinar on Health equity and power: Building transnational feminist solidarity on Thursday, March 25th, 2021, at 4:00–6:00 PM EAT/9:00–11:00 AM EST/1:00-3:00 PM GMT. The webinar will bring together a diverse panel of speakers, namely; Weema Askri: African Queer Youth Initiative; Dr Ana Mocumbi: […]
Despite the huge strides that have been made by women’s rights activists in the fight for equality, a lot still remains to be done to close the gender gap. This gap remains because we are not only confronted by deeply entrenched systems of oppressive patriarchy, but also by years of socialising that lead women to […]
Ntengwe for Community Development leads the way Land is considered a major source of wealth, social status and power. In African countries where women are the major work force on agricultural land, the security of their rights over this key resource is often denied them. This is what drove AWDF grantee partner, Ntengwe for Community […]
Afua is responsible for coordinating and managing AWDF’s donor portfolio, ensuring that AWDF meets its implementation and reporting obligations to all stakeholders. Afua started her career at World Vision International- Ghana as a Programme Officer for Sponsorship. She worked with ABANTU for Development; a women’s rights organisation based in Ghana for about 6 years advocating […]
Sarah is an Administrative Assistant (Procurement) responsible for administrative duties relating to organising and coordinating procurement activities to support an efficient procurement framework within AWDF. Prior to joining AWDF, she had worked at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for her National Service. Sarah is a graduate of Accra Polytechnic with HND in Purchasing and Supply. […]