Bénéficiaires mis en lumière: The African Leadership Centre, à Nairobi

Watch Dr Funmi Olonisakin, Executive Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC) à Nairobi, Kenya speak about the paucity of leadership on the African continent, and how the ALC through its fellowship programme is developing training young Africans for leadership within their communities and in the continent. Depuis 2010, the African Women’s Development Fund has […]

Statement to the African regional meeting of the 2013 World Economic Forum

We the undersigned participants at a strategic meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, held in Cape Town on 3-4 May under the auspices of the African Women’s Development Fund (Rapport Annuel ), wish to communicate the following key messages from our deliberations to the World Economic Forum-Africa meeting “Delivering on Africa’s Promise”, 8-10 Mai 2013   […]

Supporting Livelihoods, Changing Lives

Entre 2001 et 2012, le Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (Rapport Annuel ) disbursed US$4,247,740.24 in grant-making to women’s rights and national organisations across the African continent. The majority of this funding has supported small community based women’s groups like Ngallu Djiguene in Senegal which in 2005 received a grant of US5,000; Anfoega Kaolin Processing Group which in […]

20 Des organisations africaines de défense des droits des femmes soutenues par un financement pour marquer 16 Journées d'activisme contre la violence basée sur le genre

AWDF a soutenu 20 Les organisations africaines de défense des droits des femmes mèneront des activités marquant 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. Ceux-ci sont: Groupe d'action pour le développement communautaire (AGCD) – Burundi Africa Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) – Kenya Associacao Caractère de Lago – Centre mozambicain pour la dignité humaine et le développement – Cercle de l'Ouganda […]

AWDF supports the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (Iwrm) en Afrique

AWDF is pleased to support the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (Iwrm) Africa for the third consecutive year. The IWRM Africa takes place 27th-30th November 2012 à Kampala, Ouganda. AWDF has awarded IWRM Africa a grant of $30,000 and in addition are sponsoring the participation of 27 women leaders from grantee organisations in 10 africain […]