Tag: women

Grantee Spotlight: Negemelelakennew HIV Positive Women Support Organization, Ethiopia

Negemelelakennew HIV Positive Women Support Organization (NLK) is a much needed space for women living positively in Ethiopia. The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has provided NLK with US$80,000 in grants since 2007. AWDF’s grant making and capacity building support to NLK has included supporting the leadership of the organisation to strengthen their resource mobilisation […]

The Gendered Aspect of HIV and AIDS: An update by Prudence Mabele from the XIX International AIDS conference

In July 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) supported Prudence Mabele, Executive Director of the Positive Women’s Network in South Africa to attend the XIX International AIDS conference in Washington D.C. in the United States of America. Under AWDF’s Solidarity Fund the organisation supports existing grantees partner to “…engage in activities which promote learning […]

Declaration of the African union commission consultative conference of women stakeholders on pan africanism, renaissance and agenda 2063

Final draft Version 1.0 DECLARATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN STAKEHOLDERS ON PAN AFRICANISM, RENAISSANCE AND AGENDA 2063 Preamble 1) WE, African women drawn from African Union Member States, Civil Society Organisations, Women Pan African Movements, Women’s Rights Organisations, Academia, Diaspora Organisations, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the private sector and UN […]

Supporting Livelihoods, Changing Lives…

Between 2001 and 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) 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 […]