In 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a total of 905 grant applications from 35 Africancountries. A total of 187 organisations from 32 African countries were awarded grants of $2,176,500 in the following thematic areas: Women’s Human Rights, Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, Governance, Peace and Security, Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Arts, […]

The AWDF offices will be closed from the 20th of December 2012 until the 6th of January 2013. Please click here to read the ‘End of Year Letter’ from Theo Sowa, CEO of AWDF. We wish you the best of the festive season.  

Please click AWDF Activity Report 2011 to download. Please click 2011 Audited Accounts to download AWDF’s audited accounts report for 2011.

Do you wish to give a gift to AWDF? You can give to AWDF via our sister organisation AWDF-USA by supporting the ‘Mother Africa’ campaign. For our donors in the USA: Did you know that if you give to AWDF USA in 2012, you could get a 100% federal tax write-off for your gift? And […]

The Executive Board of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to announce that in January 2013 Professor Sesae Mpuchane will take over as Chair of the Executive Board of AWDF. This follows the completion of two terms in office as Board Chair by Dr. Hilda Tadria, co founder of AWDF. The Board and […]

AWDF has supported 15 grantee partners across the continent to carry out a range of activities to mark World Aids Day. The following are examples of some of the work that grantee partners will carry out. The ‘Centre for Legal Rights Education, Advocacy and Development (CLREAD)’ in Kenya will undertake an HIV prevention education among […]

AWDF has supported 20 African women’s rights organisations to carry out activities marking 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. These are: Action Group for Community Development (AGCD) – Burundi Africa Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) – Kenya Associacao Khalidwe of Lago – Mozambique Centre for Human Dignity and Development – Uganda Cercle […]

The Co-Founders of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Her Excellency Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, First Lady of Ekiti State, Nigeria; Ms Joana Foster, Head of Mission, medica mondiale, Liberia; and Dr Hilda Tadria, Executive Director of ‘Mentoring and Empowerment Programme for Young Women’ will be honoured on Tuesday 27th November 2012 with the IPPFAR Philanthropy Award […]

AWDF is pleased to support the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) Africa for the third consecutive year. The IWRM Africa takes place 27th-30th November 2012 in Kampala, Uganda. AWDF has awarded IWRM Africa a grant of $30,000 and in addition are sponsoring the participation of 27 women leaders from grantee organisations in 10 African […]

From the 19 – 21st November 2012, AWDF will hold a 3 day skills building workshop on ‘Rights and Results Based Programming’ (RBP) in Johannesburg, South Africa, for 30 grantee partners from the Southern Africa region (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland). This training will seek to adapt the framework of the RBP […]