After almost 20years of dedicated service, Beatrice Boakye-Yiadom, our Programmes Manager-Resourcing Movements, retires today. Throughout her time at the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Beatrice has played an integral role in shaping and delivering our grantmaking initiatives, building strong relationships with partners like you and advancing our mission to resource, strengthen and uphold women’s rights organisations and feminist movements across Africa. Her passion, leadership and commitment have left a lasting impact on our work and the feminist movements that we serve.

While we will greatly miss Beatrice’s presence on our team, we are excited to celebrate this new chapter in her life and express our deep gratitude for her legacy, which will continue to live on in the work we do and in the strong relationships she has nurtured with our partners, donors and other feminist actors.

“Looking back, the Programme Manager role at AWDF has been far more than a job for me; it has been a vocation and a place of deep purpose. AWDF has shaped my professional life, my values, and my understanding of what feminist resourcing can achieve when it is grounded in trust, solidarity, and accountability to African women and girls.”
Beatrice Boakye Yiadom

While we will greatly miss Beatrice’s presence on our team, we are excited to celebrate this new chapter in her life and express our deep gratitude for her legacy, which will continue to live on in the work we do and in the strong relationships she has nurtured with our partners, donors and other feminist actors.

“After nearly two decades at AWDF, Beatrice has never wavered in her commitment to leading with care. She has taught me, most of us, to welcome change and uncertainty with a calm spirit and a smiling face – in life, and at work. This is a lesson I will never forget. She will certainly be missed.”
Françoise Moudouthe, CEO AWDF

We wish Beatrice the very best and we look forward to celebrating whatever new passions and interests she will be pursuing. We will be reaching out to many of you to gather your thoughts, memories and well wishes for Beatrice, which will be compiled into a special send-off to honour her incredible journey with us.

During this transition period, Lana Razafimanantsoa will provide interim leadership for the Program Manager, Resourcing role. She can be reached at Lana@awdf.org. We welcome any questions or conversations you would like to have regarding this transition. Please do not hesitate to reach out to our Director of Programmes, Nana Zulu, at nanazulu@awdf.org