This article was originally posted on Citi FM online (Ghana) Sunday 1st November, More than 500 residents of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis at the weekend participated in a breast cancer awareness health walk to sensitise Ghanaians on the dangers of the disease. The event which was organised by Breast Care International, a non-governmental organisation, brought together hundreds […]
This story was originally posted on Graphic Online (Ghana) Sixty-nine young women have graduated from a three-month intensive training in vocational skills under the Youth-in-Entrepreneurship initiative. The initiative, which forms part of the Network of Women in Growth-Ghana’s (NEWIG) project, seeks to empower young women to be gainfully employed to make them self-reliant. They were trained […]
Read published article here: on Qz.com BY Amba Mpoke-Bigg Nurse Mariatu Fofana says she should have known better than to touch and hug her father as he lay dying at his home near the capital of Sierra Leone, but she has paid an unbearable price for her error. Ebola had been raging for months by […]
Position: Program Officer, Anti-Harmful Practices Deadline: October 15th, 2015 Background (About Equality Now) Equality Now, an international human rights organization dedicated to ending violence and discrimination against women and girls globally, is seeking an experienced Program Officer to manage the ‘Enhancing Collaboration and Legal Action to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM)’ project. […]
After more than a year of unimaginable suffering, West Africa looks cautiously ahead to the end of the most devastating outbreak of the Ebola virus the world has ever known. Yet the road for the three worst affected countries is still one of tough challenges. Whilst Liberia is celebrating a second round of being […]
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be organising another Resource Mobilisation Strategy Development (RMSD) Boot Camp from 14-17th September 2015, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The programme is one of AWDF’s flagship capacity building activities, which has become popular with fundraisers within grantee organisations as a critical step in developing their organisational financial sustainability. […]
Students at University of Ghana (AP Photo/Gabriela Barnuevo) Read published article here: on Qz.com BY Amba Mpoke-Bigg Over the past couple of decades Ghana has won a hardearned reputation as a stable and settled democracy. Yet, as news broke last week that a young university graduate from Ghana had left home to join Islamic State […]
Aspen New Voices Fellowship Announces Call for 2016 Nominations The Aspen Institute seeks nominations for one-year non-resident media skills and coaching program for next generation of global development leaders from the developing world WASHINGTON, DC September 1, 2015– The Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship today announced a call for nominations for the 2016 Fellowship […]
The Disability Rights Scholarship Program provides awards for master’s degree study to disability rights advocates, lawyers, and educators to develop new legislation, jurisprudence, policy, research, and scholarship to harness the innovations and opportunities offered by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). With the knowledge and networks gained through the […]
As part of the 2015 African Women Writers Workshop, The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and Uganda Women Writers Association- FEMRITE- held a Public Dialogue on Friday July 31st in downtown Kampala, Uganda. That evening, the workshop participants, 22 African women writers, joined members of Uganda’s literary, art and activist community for a discussion on […]
