BACKGROUND TO THE CONSULTANCY As part of our capacity building and donor advocacy roles, AWDF has embarked on a process to encourage African women’s funds, acteurs philanthropiques alliés, and the African women’s organisations that we support to engage with the growing field of knowledge production and programme development and implementation around evidence-based prevention of […]
AWDF requires the services of a Bi-Lingual Communications Assistant for a short term contract. The consultant must have at least two years of experience in the field of public information, marketing en ligne ou environnement similaire. The assignment shall be for a period of 6 mois. Competencies: Fluency (written and spoken) in English and French […]
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 […]
Marquer 16 Journées d'activisme cette année, AWDF et ses partenaires bénéficiaires prêtent une voix pour soutenir la campagne mondiale sur la ratification et la mise en œuvre de la nouvelle Convention de l'OIT 190 et recommandation 206 mettre fin à la violence basée sur le genre dans le monde du travail. Sous le domaine thématique des droits du corps et de la santé, […]
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 […]