BUILDING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST SOLIDARITY AWDF and Black Women radicals are co-hosting a webinar on Health equity and power: Building transnational feminist solidarity on Thursday, March 25th, 2021, at 4:00–6:00 PM EAT/9:00–11:00 AM EST/1:00-3:00 PM GMT. The webinar will bring together a diverse panel of speakers, namely; Weema Askri: African Queer Youth Initiative; Dr Ana Mocumbi: […]

  Feminist Mental Health Knowledge Series AWDF invites African women researchers, artists and vloggers to document information, experiences, insights, practices and approaches that promote mental health and emotional wellbeing in communities and groups of women across the continent. We are particularly keen on innovations around feminist collective care and self-care in the digital era, humanitarian, […]

Despite the huge strides that have been made by women’s rights activists in the fight for equality, a lot still remains to be done to close the gender gap. This gap remains because we are not only confronted by deeply entrenched systems of oppressive patriarchy, but also by years of socialising that lead women to […]

Ntengwe for Community Development leads the way Land is considered a major source of wealth, social status and power. In African countries where women are the major work force on agricultural land, the security of their rights over this key resource is often denied them. This is what drove AWDF grantee partner, Ntengwe for Community […]

Are you passionate about women’s rights in Africa, excited about African feminism, embrace African women’s diversity and are innovative? Are you adept at assessing grants applications for funding and contributing in-depth knowledge to shape grants strategy in the context of women’s rights? Do you have experience developing, coordinating, managing and implementing projects? Are you ready […]

Written by: Dinnah Nabwire, Knowledge Management Specialist, AWDF Brief following the launch of the report Women and NCDs in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors and extent of rights-based work to address the impact of NCDs on African women. Many people think that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect men and richer populations especially those in the […]

AWDF is honoured to be sponsoring the Women and Girls Summit (WAGS), which takes place virtually from November 16-18, 2020, and aims to prepare women and girls as leaders in key industries to ensure that Africa realises its full potential on issues ranging from entrepreneurship to the impact of climate change, to reproductive health, to […]