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Grantee Spotlight: Negemelelakennew HIV Positive Women Support Organization, Ethiopia
Negemelelakennew HIV Positive Women Support Organization (NLK) is a much needed space for women living positively in Ethiopia. The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has provided NLK with US$80,000 in grants since 2007. AWDF’s grant making and capacity building support to NLK has included supporting the leadership of the organisation to strengthen their resource mobilisation […]
CSW Communications Procedure on Violations of Women’s & Girls’ Human Rights
Video: Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi shares her thoughts on the minimum age of marriage in Nigeria
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a Co-Founder and Board Member of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). She is also a member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning. Bisi is also the wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria. In this video, Bisi shares her thoughts on the current controversy […]
Nigeria: WEP sensitises women in Zamfara State on the need to participate in political processes
One of the issues raised time and time again by AWDF’s grantee partners during a recent monitoring visit to Nigeria was the need to prepare for the 2015 general elections. In the context of insecurity and domestic terrorism, women’s rights organisations working in the areas of governance, political participation and leadership stressed the importance of […]
The Gendered Aspect of HIV and AIDS: An update by Prudence Mabele from the XIX International AIDS conference
In July 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) supported Prudence Mabele, Executive Director of the Positive Women’s Network in South Africa to attend the XIX International AIDS conference in Washington D.C. in the United States of America. Under AWDF’s Solidarity Fund the organisation supports existing grantees partner to “…engage in activities which promote learning […]
Pillay welcomes major breakthrough enabling individual complaints on economic, social and cultural rights
What our Nigerian Grantee Partners said about working with AWDF
In June 2013, a 3 member team from AWDF – Rose Buabeng, Anglophone Programme Officer; Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Communications Specialist, Solange Kuadjo, Programme Assistant – visited 19 grantee partners, and 3 potential grantee partners in 7 Nigerian States (Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Ilorin, Nasawara, Ile Ife, Kwara). Chika Oduah, a multi-media journalist who took many of […]
Audio interview with Happy Gloria of Busia Community Based Service in Kenya
In this interview, Happy Gloria, Executive Director of ‘Busia Community Based Services’ (BUCOSS) in Kenya speaks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah of the AWDF on some of the detrimental cultural practices contributing to the spread of HIV and AIDS in Busia, Kenya. Here she shares details of the innovative ways in which BUCOSS has been working […]
AWDF’s 2013 Site Visit to Grantee Partners in Nigeria
Site visits are one of the numerous ways in which the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) keeps in touch with its diverse constituencies. These visits enable AWDF to interact directly with grantee partners, learn about issues of concern to women’s rights organisations, identify the developmental needs of grantee partners, assess the impact of grants provided, […]