Are you passionate about women’s rights in Africa, excited about African feminism, embrace African women’s diversity and are innovative? Are you adept at assessing grants applications for funding and contributing in-depth knowledge to shape grants strategy in the context of women’s rights? Do you have experience developing, coordinating, managing and implementing projects? Are you ready […]

Written by: Dinnah Nabwire, Knowledge Management Specialist, AWDF Brief following the launch of the report Women and NCDs in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors and extent of rights-based work to address the impact of NCDs on African women. Many people think that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect men and richer populations especially those in the […]

By: Pudu Blamoh, Communications Intern, AWDF Having read Shel Silverstein’s much-acclaimed children’s book The Giving Tree years ago, I reflect now and can’t help but compare the characters in that book; the tree and the boy, to women and the world respectively. The Giving tree tells the story of a boy who grows to become a man, […]

AWDF is honoured to be sponsoring the Women and Girls Summit (WAGS), which takes place virtually from November 16-18, 2020, and aims to prepare women and girls as leaders in key industries to ensure that Africa realises its full potential on issues ranging from entrepreneurship to the impact of climate change, to reproductive health, to […]

Women’s ways lead us to the solutions the planet and the people need Peasant and working-class women in Africa bear the brunt of climate-destroying ‘development’ projects which grab, pollute and destroy their natural resources, undermine cultural and historical ties to territories, exploit their labour (paid and unpaid), and violate their bodies and health. And women […]

As a feminist organisation, AWDF continuously strives to support the growth and long-term sustainability of women-led organisations. Since 2013, we have been conducting grantees Recognition surveys annually to identify achievements and recognition of grantees we have supported two years prior to the survey. This is part of our monitoring, evaluation and learning activities. The 2020 […]