In June 2013, a 3 member team from AWDF – Rose Buabeng, Anglophone Programme Officer; Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Communications Specialist, Solange Kuadjo, Programme Assistant – visited 19 grantee partners, and 3 potential grantee partners in 7 Nigerian States (Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Ilorin, Nasawara, Ile Ife, Kwara). Chika Oduah, a multi-media journalist who took many of […]
In this interview, Happy Gloria, Executive Director of ‘Busia Community Based Services’ (BUCOSS) in Kenya speaks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah of the AWDF on some of the detrimental cultural practices contributing to the spread of HIV and AIDS in Busia, Kenya. Here she shares details of the innovative ways in which BUCOSS has been working […]
Site visits are one of the numerous ways in which the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) keeps in touch with its diverse constituencies. These visits enable AWDF to interact directly with grantee partners, learn about issues of concern to women’s rights organisations, identify the developmental needs of grantee partners, assess the impact of grants provided, […]
Who would have thought that working with rubbish could become so exciting? 9 years ago, 5 Ethiopian women, Kiros Wolde-Giorghis, Embafrash Berehie, Legawork Ayle, Tsehay Haile and Mulatua Haileselassie decided that Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia needed cleaning up, and that they would help do that whilst giving women a means of making a […]
Make a difference to the lives of African women by supporting the work of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). To donate via wire transfer from anywhere in Africa, please makes a deposit into AWDF’s account using the following information: Account Name: AWDF/Fundraising Account Number 064/1008737 Bank Name Barclays Bank Ghana Limited Bank […]
Watch Dr Funmi Olonisakin, Executive Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC) in Nairobi, Kenya speak about the paucity of leadership on the African continent, and how the ALC through its fellowship programme is developing training young Africans for leadership within their communities and in the continent. Since 2010, the African Women’s Development Fund has […]
Theo Sowa, AWDF’s Chief Executive Officer participated in the 2013 Women Deliver conference held in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia between the 28th-30th of May 2013. On Tuesday the 28th, she delivered ‘The Last Word’ for proceedings on the day which can be viewed below: On Wednesday 29th May Theo Sowa facilitated a panel on ‘Developing Countries’ […]