Le Fonds Africain pour le Developpement de la Femme (Rapport Annuel ) is proud to have supported the production of a publication documenting the herstory of The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET). In her foreword to the publication, Joyce Hilda Banda, President of Malawi stated: “FEMNET has been at the centre of the campaign for gender equality in the […]
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Congratulations to Mphatheleni Makaulule, Founder of the Mupo Foundation who was recently awarded a Global Leadership Award by the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI). The Mupo Foundation works to preserve and revive cultural and biological diversity in South Africa and in 2011, AWDF provided a grant of US$25,000 to the organisation in support of training of […]
Negemelelakennew HIV Positive Women Support Organization (NLK) is a much needed space for women living positively in Ethiopia. Le Fonds Africain pour le Developpement de la Femme (Rapport Annuel ) has provided NLK with US$80,000 in grants since 2007. AWDF’s grant making and capacity building support to NLK has included supporting the leadership of the organisation to strengthen their resource mobilisation […]
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi est cofondatrice et membre du conseil d'administration du Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (Rapport Annuel ). Elle est également membre du Réseau des femmes leaders africaines pour la santé reproductive et la planification familiale.. Bisi est également l'épouse du gouverneur de l'État d'Ekiti, Nigéria. Dans cette vidéo, Bisi shares her thoughts on the current controversy […]
One of the issues raised time and time again by AWDF’s grantee partners during a recent monitoring visit to Nigeria was the need to prepare for the 2015 general elections. In the context of insecurity and domestic terrorism, women’s rights organisations working in the areas of governance, political participation and leadership stressed the importance of […]
In July 2012, le Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (Rapport Annuel ) supported Prudence Mabele, Executive Director of the Positive Women’s Network in South Africa to attend the XIX International AIDS conference in Washington D.C. in the United States of America. Under AWDF’s Solidarity Fund the organisation supports existing grantees partner to “…engage in activities which promote learning […]
En juin 2013, un 3 member team from AWDF – Rose Buabeng, Anglophone Programme Officer; Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Communications Specialist, Solange Kuadjo, Programme Assistant – visited 19 partenaires bénéficiaires, et 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 […]
Dans cet entretien, Heureuse Gloria, Directeur exécutif de ‘Busia Community Based Services’ (BUCOSS) au Kenya s'entretient avec Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah de l'AWDF sur certaines des pratiques culturelles préjudiciables qui contribuent à la propagation du VIH et du SIDA à Busia, Kenya. Here she shares details of the innovative ways in which BUCOSS has been working […]