The announcement of Canada’s new $241.5 Million fund for family programs is a direct push against the streak of conservative aid policy implementation in North America. Canada’s fund is a step in the a progressive direction. Theo Sowa and Musimbi Kanyoro discuss the implications of the fund and the opprotunities it presents for Women’s Rights […]

Shaping the Future was developed out of research and exploration around how AWDF and the African women’s rights organisations and activists that we resource can contribute to building a future for Africa that reflects the equality and justice that lie at the heart of our continent’s progress. We invested in a process to gather data […]

A tribute by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi ‘Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now’– Audre Lourde It was March 2006. I was in Johannesburg, South Africa with Vera Doku, a colleague of mine from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), as part of a tour of countries in […]

  Some people are made of change, of strength, of will and of resilience. You have been an inspiration to us all, with an unrelenting sense of fearlessness that serves as our only comfort in this time of mourning. Your life was a celebration of sisterhood and of solidarity. You stood with those who others […]

In short 12-minute inserts, Siyayinqoba, a television documentary series, helps young women claim their spaces by telling their own stories to other young women. Using popular media such as television and social media outreach, the programme makes substantial gains in the fight to give South Africa’s youth enough information to make informed decisions about their […]

New Faces New Voices is a pan African advocacy group that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector. “For us to have inclusive growth,” said NFVF Executive Director Nomsa Daniels, “we can’t afford to leave 50% of the population behind.” This belief that women have the potential to deliver […]

AWDF’s leadership development and coaching programme is aimed at building a cadre of African women leaders with feminist consciousness to promote women and girls’ rights in Africa. This programme targets young African women leaders because they represent our future, and deserve our investment in their human capacity development to enable them engage effectively as our […]

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