Who broke-the-story-first? Image by Sylvia Nalubega, UGA, Oct/2021, via AWDF/AfriRep It is March of 2018 in Uganda. The conversation on prevalent sexual assault is frequenting media, civil society, and public conversation spaces as part of the International Women’s Day momentum. One prominent news publication runs a social media campaign asking women to share their sexual […]

AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS   Are you an African women’s rights organisation, activist, practitioner, researcher, storyteller, artist, writer or an individual/organisation who deeply cares about the prevention of Violence Against Women (VAW)? AWDF is excited to introduce this Introductory Guide for African Women’s Organisations which offers critical insights for you and your work. […]

The ‘Creative Centre for Communication and Development‘ (CCCD) based in Zimbabwe is a grantee partner of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). CCCD specialises in utilising information and communication technologies (ICT) to advance women’s human rights. In 2010, CCCD received a small grant of US$1,000 to use mobile phone advocacy to educate the public on […]

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 […]