economic empowerment Archives - The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

Grantee Highlight: Sixty-Nine Women Graduate from NEWIG’s Youth-in-Entrepreneurship Initiative

This story was originally posted on Graphic Online (Ghana) Sixty-nine young women have graduated from a three-month intensive training in vocational skills under the Youth-in-Entrepreneurship initiative. The initiative, which forms part of the Network of Women in Growth-Ghana’s (NEWIG) project, seeks to empower young women to be gainfully employed to make them self-reliant. They were trained […]

AWDF Publishes Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy Brief

Podcast: Thokozile Makhanya of Biowatch speaks on food sovereignty, and resisting genetically modified organisms

(Thoko was interviewed by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Communications Specialist, AWDF)

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 (AWDF), wish to communicate the following key messages from our deliberations to the World Economic Forum-Africa meeting “Delivering on Africa’s Promise”, 8-10 May 2013 […]