Call for Proposals: HIV/AIDS Thematic Area

It is the pleasure of African Women’s Development Fund to announce that they are now accepting proposals for grants concerning HIV/AIDS. Below is a link to the proposal document which applicants may download. Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here: CALL FOR PROPOSALS […]

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHT: Network of Women in Growth (NEWIG)

In April this year, Mawusi Nudekor Awity, Founder and Executive Director of AWDF Grantee Network for Women in Growth (NEWIG) won a scholarship to pursue a short course in Canada. She visited us at AWDF House, here in Accra to share the good news and spend a few moments with us before starting her trip. […]

WORLD AIDS DAY: CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO COMMEMORATE

It is our pleasure to announce that African Women’s Development Fund is now accepting proposals for grants towards the commemoration of World AIDS Day 2012. Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here: Call for Proposals for 2012 World AIDS Day Financial Management Assessment […]

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE, 2012: CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO COMMEMORATE

It is our pleasure to announce that African Women’s Development Fund is now accepting proposals for grants towards the commemoration of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2012. Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here: Call for Proposals for 2012 16 days […]

A RESOURCE PAPER: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

In recent months, AWDF has noticed with deep concern, a rise in the frequency of violence-related deaths and injuries, and domestic violence cases being reported by the various Ghanaian mediahouses. Not only does it seem that violence has increased, it also seems that it comes in a wider variety of instances, some increasingly brutal and […]

… THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET BREATHES

It’s been raining heavily in Ghana since late noon yesterday, the weighed-down clouds drenching the eastern and finally arriving in the southern half of the country early this morning. Even now, the weather is still very overcast and there is a constant baby-shower of rain. It is as if Mama Earth is projecting an aggregate […]

CALL TO ACTION! – STOPPING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GHANA

For the past few months, our radios and air spaces have been blasting out and vibrating with hair-raising acts of violence against women and children. What concerns us is the obvious disparity between the levels of violence before, and the levels currently. The magnitude of violence in Ghana is now overwhelming, and calls for immediate […]

AWDF’s support of Open Forum 2012: Money, Power & Sex

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to support the Open Forum 2012 on the theme of ‘Money, Power and Sex’. This event takes place from the 22nd -25th May at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in South Africa. On Tuesday 22nd May in room 2.62 at the CTICC, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, […]