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In 2008, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a grant of €5 million from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3 on women’s empowerment. The grant was provided for a three-year period from 2008 to 2011 and was implemented as AWDF’s MDG3 Project. As […]
This video highlights the work of African women leaders who participated in the African Women’s Development Fund’s (AWDF) annual CEO Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10 – 12 August 2015. This 3-day convening, which is a part of AWDF’s Capacity Building Programme, focused on Leadership and Communications and featured 21 women leaders from 8 African […]
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will be organising another Resource Mobilisation Strategy Development (RMSD) Boot Camp from 14-17th September 2015, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The programme is one of AWDF’s flagship capacity building activities, which has become popular with fundraisers within grantee organisations as a critical step in developing their organisational financial sustainability. […]
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World AIDS day Dec 1, 2014 World AIDS day was even more of a success than hoped for the ISORE Women Initiative for Sustainable Development based in central Uganda, a small NGO and an AWDF grantee. The day-long event which kicked off Monday, eventually ran an extra two days, unplanned, but hugely successful. “This […]
The CEO Forum forms part of AWDF’s commitment to strengthening the leadership of women’s organisations in Africa. It is a biennial event that provides a safe space for the leadership of women’s organisations to discuss strategic leadership issues, share experiences and build skills that will support their personal and organisational development. It is a safe […]