The Manda coaching program is an opportunity for young women in second level leadership to come together and learn from and with each other. On 11th October, the 4th CEO Forum was held in Accra, Ghana and brought together young leaders from across the continent whose organisations are making positive changes within their communities. The […]
The ECOWAS Court today, 12 October 2017, delivered its judgment in the case between Dorothy Njemanze and 3 others v The Federal Republic of Nigeria. The case centered on the violent, cruel, inhuman, degrading and discriminatory treatment the Plaintiffs suffered at the hands of law enforcement agents in Abuja Nigeria. The women by name, Dorothy […]
Her active role in the African Feminist Forum and Ugandan feminist forum helped shape both of these spaces. She was a constant voice for progression, and knew that the future of the feminist movement relied on inclusion. Marren was the Executive Director of the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), […]
Are you interested in learning more about African feminist theories? Do you want to learn how to be a feminist researcher? Do you want to know more about how to use Wikipedia to tell African women’s stories? Join the AWDF staff for an afternoon of trainings, conversations and deep critical thinking about African feminist theory […]
When Surplus People’s Project’s CEO, Herschelle Milford, was invited to participate in the African Women’s Development Fund’s CEO Forum on Leadership and Governance in 2015, it would be the start of a journey of growth that would build networks with feminist leaders across the African continent. At the time, Milford said her “biggest drawback has […]
The African Women’s Development Fund is organising the 4th Resource Mobilisation bootcamp in Accra, Ghana from the 28th to the 31st of August 2017. The Resource Mobilisation Bootcamp is one of the capacity building programmes organised by AWDF to support grantees to develop their resource mobilisation strategy. AWDF has been providing capacity building support to […]
When the African Women’s Development Fund invited Lorato Moalusi-Sakufiwa to the CEO Forum’s Leadership and Governance programme, a Capacity Building initiative, it would plant a small seed that would bear fruit over a broad reach of the organisation’s programmes. “For me gaining leadership skills and then leading this organisation so that, in turn, it […]