The African Women’s Development Fund believes that feminism is a strong backbone for any women’s organisation just as networking is key to movement building. Our coaching programme has always reflected this belief in the tenacity and ingenuity of African women and our grantees to take tiny seeds and grow them into mighty trees. The Manda […]
Contexte Le Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (Rapport Annuel ) est une fondation pionnière d'octroi de subventions dont le siège est à Accra, Ghana. AWDF a été fondée par et pour les femmes africaines. Il vise à soutenir le travail du mouvement des femmes africaines pour la paix, égalité, développement durable et justice sociale. Depuis sa fondation en 2001, AWDF has continued to support a growing […]
En septembre 13-15 2018, AWDF will convene a select group of activists, scholars, researchers and policy shapers to help build and think through a thoughtful, progressive and transformative vision for the future of women in African economies. The African Women’s Development Fund knows the potential of the power that women wield in our shared economic […]
Une féministe, une championne passionnée et défenseure des droits des femmes, Stella Mukasa était un être humain exemplaire. Sa croyance en l'égalité l'a incitée à défier les institutions patriarcales à tous les niveaux de la société et de la gouvernance, and her feminist ethos guided her life and cultivated strong sisterhoods in a wide range of diverse personal and […]
En 2010, as a part of its efforts to immortalise the works and achievements of African Women whose legacies of community development were not always documented, AWDF instituted a fund in memory of Hawa Yakubu, a Ghanaian politician, a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Republic of Ghana and also a Minister for Tourism. […]
Réseau des femmes en croissance (NOUVELLE) a été formé dans le but d'améliorer les conditions des moins privilégiés dans la société, surtout les femmes. Il le fait par l'autonomisation économique, En créant l'accès à la formation professionnelle et en leur fournissant un réseau qui pourrait agir comme un effet de levier politique au sein de la société. This helps them develop common political […]
Par: Maame Akua Kyerewaa-Marfo The fast pace of technology has often made it synonymous with the concept of progress. New Technological developments often came with the presumption of neutrality. They were widely thought of not to have the the weaknesses of human prejudice, just simple–clean–algorithms. Technology could be–at least conceptually–blissfully neutral. However in its […]
The African Women’s Development Fund believes in supporting our grantees to build their capacity and resourcing them past finances. We also believe in the strength of unity of purpose as demonstrated by our Results Based Programming training which is aimed at reinforcing our knowledge and understanding of our common goals. This flagship programme is part […]