About AWDF The African Women’s Development Fund was established in June 2000, en tant qu'organisation philanthropique à l'échelle de l'Afrique, grant making initiative to support the realisation and fulfilment of African women’s rights through funding of autonomous women’s organisations on the continent. AWDF believes that if women and women’s organisations are empowered with skills, de l'information, moyens de subsistance durables, opportunities to […]
The year was 2006. HIV-activist Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, known to the public only as Khwezi, faced off against Jacob Zuma, then the deputy-president of South Africa, in court. She had accused him of rape. She stood her ground amidst death threats from Zuma’s supporters, harassment from the ANC Women’s League and widespread torment from the […]
Les taux de violence contre les femmes ont atteint des niveaux pandémiques à travers le monde. Il est estimé que 1 en 3 femmes ayant déjà eu un couple de plus de 15 ont, à un moment de leur vie, subi une forme quelconque de violence physique ou sexuelle interpersonnelle. Dans certaines régions d'Afrique, the prevalence rate is almost double that […]
Children in well-worn school uniforms play on the dirt road that runs past the small, red-brick structure on the corner of an unnamed street in Orange Farm, about 45km south of Johannesburg in South Africa’s Gauteng province. Établi en 1988, Orange Farm is one of South Africa’s youngest township, with the original inhabitants consisting predominantly […]
Liens de genre – for equality and justice From the outside, la modeste maison en briques rouges de la banlieue sud de Johannesburg ne ressemble pas à grand-chose. De la rue, il serait presque impossible de deviner qu'il s'agit des bureaux de l'une des principales organisations de défense des droits des femmes d'Afrique australe. Gender Links is a small organisation with a […]
Fonds de Développement des Femmes Africaines (Rapport Annuel ) is a Pan-African grant making organisation that funds local, national and regional autonomous women’s rights organisations in Africa and the Middle East, that are working towards the promotion and realisation African Women’s Rights. Since the beginning of its operation in 2001, AWDF has awarded grants and provided technical support to […]
Introduction Partir du Sud (EPA) est un fonds philanthropique féministe et une alliance conceptualisée et gérée par quatre fonds féminins de premier plan: Fonds de Développement des Femmes Africaines (Rapport Annuel ), Fonds pour les femmes du Sud (FMS), Forum international des femmes autochtones (FIMI) / N'IMPORTE QUEL Fonds (LE MÊME), et Fonds pour les femmes en Asie (WFA). Le LFS soutient l'activisme des droits des femmes et les efforts de lobbying en […]
Chez AWDF, nous pensons que pour avoir un impact sur notre mission collective de faire progresser les droits de nos femmes, nous devons également consacrer des ressources pour aider à renforcer les capacités des organisations de changement.. En tant que donateur, AWDF vise à soutenir les meilleures pratiques de gestion financière à la fois en interne et parmi nos bénéficiaires. We acknowledge that financial […]
Par: Sabine Afodanyi, Knowledge Management Intern I began my internship with the African Women’s Development Fund with eagerness and desire to soak in as much knowledge as I can concerning African feminism. I had the opportunity of interning with the Knowledge Management department, which is responsible for archiving and analyzing feminist knowledge produced by the […]
Gender activists from across Southern Africa launch the#VoiceandChoice 2019 Barometer alongside the State of Women in SADC 2019 report. The Barometer has been produced for the last eleven years by the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance, a network of Women’s Rights Organisations that campaigned for the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development in 2008, its updating and […]
