Author: African Women's Development Fund

The CEO Forum and coaching programme, designed by African feminists, develops the individual and collective leadership skills of women leaders who are at different points in their careers (senior, mid-level and emerging). As a Capacity Building Programme, this space also addresses critical gap areas while strengthening institutional and governance structures and providing an enabling framework for their sustainability. With this 7th CEO Forum and 4th coaching programme, we have over the years gained specialised knowledge of the persistent challenges African women’s organisations contend with concerning resource mobilisation, communications, governance, leadership transition, safety and wellbeing.

The story below is from one of the participants of the CEO forum and Manda programme. She describes how the programme has caused her to rethink the role of her board in the growth of her organisation and the different connections she has made during the forum.

 

DEBORAH TAVONGA TAKAWIRA
Project Officer,
Markets and Training African Women’s Initiative in Developing Economies
Zimbabwe

The Forum has been awesome, inspiring and eye-opening. I learned that being a leader involves a lot of things, not just having the academic qualifications or being able to tell people what needs to be done.You have to ensure that things are running efficiently, that there are proper structures that need to be in place in terms of governance and who you are going to be working with . It’s important to have the proper leadership qualities if you are going to be effective.

In Zimbabwe, it’s easy to think you are the only one doing a lot of work, but there are other women on the continent who are also doing awesome work, that is similar to yours. I had the chance to connect with a participant from Malawi who is running a programme that is very similar to ours. It has been very exciting to share our different experiences and to learn from them. We have a board that is brilliant and has the necessary skills but we need to ensure that we tap into those skills properly.We will talk with the board to see if they want to work with us to help our organisation to grow and to be at par with all the other successful women’s organisations across Africa.

 

[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]Despite the gains made in addressing the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS, women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV in many regions. Today, women constitute more than half of all people living with HIV. Young women (15-24 years), and adolescent girls (10-19 years) in particular, account for a disproportionate number of new HIV infections. In 2016, new infections among young women aged (15-24) were 44% higher than men their age. Young African women aged 15-24 account for 25% of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa – a statistic that shows a need to keep our focus on young women’s lives and rights.

With better treatment and care, women living with HIV are living longer. In addition, older women are also susceptible to HIV infection since they are also sexually active. There is therefore a significant number of older women living with HIV. Statistics available shows that 5.8 million people living with HIV worldwide are aged over 50. However because it is assumed that older women do not have sex, HIV programming has not paid attention to this age group.

Growing old comes with its own challenges and when a woman living with HIV and AIDS grows old she has the double burden of health and social issues to deal with. However, this age group is usually forgotten in HIV and AIDS programming despite their peculiar challenges such as the effect of menopause and the interaction of other old age medical concerns and treatments on their HIV and AIDS medical and wellbeing treatments and needs.

For World AIDS Day 2018, AWDF is awarding grants to African women’s organisations and groups to support activities addressing the impact of HIV and AIDS across women’s life cycles. We encourage applications addressing HIV and AIDS with a focus on young women and or older African women as well as on inter-generational exchange and mobilising.

We encourage innovative projects that will involve young women and older women in their design and lead implementation. We also would prioritise activities that focus on inter-generational exchange and mobilising to address HIV and AIDS issues.

We particularly welcome applications from organisations of women living with HIV and AIDS, organisations led by women living with HIV and AIDS and from young women’s groups.

AWDF encourages innovation- so do send in your creative ideas! Projects may include activities that;

• Address the interrelation between violence and HIV and AIDS across women’s lifecycles
• Build the confidence of young women to negotiate for safer sex
• Increase young women’s knowledge to take preventive measures against HIV and AIDS infection and reinfection
• Sets the agenda for addressing the drivers causing HIV and AIDS infection among young people
• Promote HIV and AIDS programming for older women
• Educate older women living with HIV and AIDS and the community on ageing with HIV and AIDS
• Encourage young women and older women to take leadership in HIV and AIDS issues
• Hold duty bearers accountable for addressing HIV and AIDS issues
• Promote intergenerational dialogues between young and older women living with HIV and AIDS
• Use technology, arts, culture and sports to create awareness around HIV and AIDS issues

The current call is opened from 29 June to 20 July 2018. Applicants are to send in proposals with innovative and effective strategies to address issues around HIV and AIDS with a focus on young women and or older African women as well as on inter-generational exchange and mobilising.

About the World AIDS Day Grants

Every year on 1 December we commemorate World AIDS Day, as an act of solidarity with women living with HIV and AIDS, and an opportunity to remind duty bearers and society at large to keep the focus and momentum on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

AWDF instituted the World AIDS Day (WAD) grants programme to support women’s rights organisations to actively participate in the global campaign and keep African women’s priorities around HIV and AIDS on the African and global agenda. The programme seeks to support women’s organisations to raise their voices and support the leadership of women living with HIV and AIDS.

The WAD programme provides a maximum grant of US$2000 to women’s organisations. The activities must promote women’s rights and involve women in planning and leadership of activities.

How to apply

Please follow the application guidelines. Note that the maximum amount of grant allowed is US$2,000. Applicants must fit AWDF’s general grantee guidelines (women-led, African women’s rights organisations).

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant Organisation:

• Must have been in existence for at least 3 years
• Must be duly registered, at least with its local government structure
• Must be led by a woman and have a focus on Women’s Rights
• Must have the needed organisational structures for effective implementation of the project
• Must have an appreciable financial management system to properly account for funds received
• Must be capable of reporting back on the outcomes of the project
• Must be highly recommended by a donor agency, a grantee or partner of AWDF or the local government office
• Must complete the necessary application forms
• Must have an annual budget not more than $100,000

Grant Size & Period

The grant size is a US$2,000. Therefore, eligible projects should have a budget of not more than US$2,000 to be supported by AWDF funds. The grant period will be for 4 months from the date of award.

How to Apply

Interested small sized women’s rights organisations should send in their proposals using the required application guidelines to the AWDF secretariat via email to awdf@africlub.net/awdf; shirley@africlub.net/awdf. The applicant must also complete and include a financial management assessment form and an outcome form

NOTE: Please note that this is a very competitive process. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

Find the full application guidelines and required forms below

APPLICATION GUIDELINES – WORLD AIDS DAY 2018

AWDF PROPOSAL BUDGET WORKSHEET – 2018

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES – 2018

FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING OUTCOMES [/tp]

[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]Malgré les progrès enregistrés, la pandémie du VIH/SIDA continue d’affecter la vie des femmes et des filles. Aujourd’hui les femmes constituent plus de la moitié des personnes vivant avec le VIH. Les jeunes femmes (15 à 24 ans) et les adolescentes (10 à 19 ans) en particulier représentent le taux disproportionne des nouvelles infections. En 2016, les nouvelles infections chez les jeunes femmes de 15 à 24 ans s’élevaient à 44% de plus que les hommes du même âge[1]. Les jeunes femmes africaines âgées de 15 à 24 ans représentent 25% des infections récentes enregistrées en Afrique Sub-saharienne[2]. Cette statistique nous appelle à être plus concerné par la vie et les droits des jeunes femmes.

De meilleurs traitements et soins permettront de prolonger la vie des femmes vivant avec le VIH. Par ailleurs les femmes plus âgées sont aussi susceptibles de contracter des infections du VIH puisqu’elles sont plus actives sexuellement. Il y a donc beaucoup de femmes plus âgées qui vivent avec le VIH et d’après les statistiques 5.8millions de personnes vivant avec le VIH ont plus de 50 ans[3] . Cependant comme il est souvent supposé que les femmes âgées n’ont pas de rapport sexuels , les programmes du VIH ne prêtent pas attention à cette tranche d’âge[4].

La vieillesse a ses enjeux et lorsqu’une femme vivant avec le VIH /SIDA prend de l’âge, elle doit gérer des problèmes de santé et des problèmes d’ordre social. Cependant les programmes du VIH ignorent pratiquement les personnes de cette tranche d’âge malgré certains problèmes particuliers qui leur sont propres, à savoir les effets indésirables de la ménopause et les interactions d’autres ennuis et traitements d’ordre médical sur leurs soins médicaux du VIH/SIDA et leurs besoins.

Dans le cadre de la Journée Mondiale de lutte contre le SIDA 2018, l’AWDF octroie des subventions pour appuyer les activités des structures de femmes qui travaillent dans le domaine de l’impact du VIH/SIDA sur le cycle de vie des femmes. Seront prioritaires d’une part, les projets destinés à aborder la question du VIH/SIDA particulièrement avec les jeunes femmes et/ou les femmes africaines plus âgées et d’autres part les projets qui vont faciliter les échanges et la mobilisation intergénérationnelles Nous allons privilégier les projets innovateurs dans lesquels les jeunes femmes et femmes plus âgées seront impliqué dans la conception et l’exécution. Les activités d’échanges et de mobilisations inter générationnelles ayant pour but d’aborder les questions du VIH/SIDA seront prioritaires.

L’AWDF est passionnée par l’innovation et vous encourage donc à envoyer vos idées ingénieuses qui visent à.

• Aborder la question de l’interaction entre violence et le VIH/SIDA dans la vie des femmes
• Renforcer la confiance des jeunes femmes et leur permettre de négocier des rapports sexuels protégés
• Renforcer les connaissances des jeunes femmes en matière de mesures préventives contre les infections et réinfections du VIH/SIDA
• Etablir un programme pour lutter contre les causes des infections du VIH/SIDA chez les jeunes gens
• Promouvoir les programmes de VIH/SIDA chez les femmes âgées
• Sensibiliser les femmes âgées vivant avec le VIH SIDA et les communautés sur les problèmes de vieillissement et le VIH/SIDA
• Encourager le leadership des jeunes femmes et femmes plus âgées en matière du VIH/SIDA
• Demander des comptes aux autorités surtout en ce qui concerne les questions du VIH/SIDA
• Promouvoir les dialogues intergénérationnels sur le VIH/SIDA entre les jeune et femmes plus âgées
• Utiliser la technologie, l’art la culture et le sport pour des activités de sensibilisations sur le VIH/SIDA

Nous lançons cet appel à projet du 29 juin au 20 juillet 2018. Nous demandons aux organisations postulantes d’envoyer des projets innovateurs dotés de stratégies efficaces pour répondre à la question du VIH/SIDA chez les jeunes femmes et les femmes plus âgées et en matière des échanges et mobilisation intergénérationnelles.

A propos des subventions de la Journée Mondiale de lutte contre le SIDA

Nous commémorons le 1^er décembre de chaque année la Journée Mondiale de lutte contre le SIDA comme un acte de solidarité envers les personnes séropositives. C’est une occasion de rappeler aux autorités et au public en général de prioriser et dynamiser la prévention, le traitement, les soins et le soutien relatifs au VIH.

L’AWDF a initié le programme de subvention en vue de la commémoration de la Journée Mondiale de lutte contre le SIDA afin d’appuyer les organisations de défense des droits des femmes pour participer activement à cette campagne mondiale et maintenir sur l’agenda africain et global les priorités des femmes africaines en matière du VIH/SIDA. Ce programme de subvention est destiné à appuyer les organisations de femmes à amplifier leur voix et promouvoir le leadership des femmes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA.

Dans le cadre de ce programme l’AWDF octroie des subventions d’un montant maximum de 2000$ aux structures féminines. Les activités à exécuter doivent promouvoir les droits de la femme et impliquer les femmes dans la planification et le leadership des activités.

Critère d’Eligibilité

L’organisation postulante doit

• avoir au moins 3 ans d’existence ;
• être dûment enregistrée au moins auprès de la préfecture de son pays ;
• être dirigée par une femme et défendre les droits de la femme ;
• avoir des structures adéquates de gestions de projet ;
• avoir un système de gestion financière permettant de bien tenir compte des fonds reçus ;
• pouvoir produire un rapport sur les résultats du projet ;
• être hautement recommandée par un bailleur de fonds, une organisation bénéficiaire de l’AWDF ou la préfecture du pays où elle intervient ;
• remplir le formulaire de demande ;
• avoir un maximum de 100000 dollars comme budget annuel.

Montant et durée de la subvention

Le montant de la subvention s’élève à 2000$. Les projets retenus doivent présenter un budget maximum de 2000$. La subvention s’étend sur une période de 4 mois à compter de la date d’attribution.

Comment postuler ?

Nous demandons aux organisations intéressées d’envoyer leurs projets au secrétariat de l’AWDF sur l’adresse email awdf@africlub.net/awdf ; shirley@africlub.net/awdf. L’organisation postulante doit suivre le canevas de demande qui comprend également le formulaire d’évaluation de la gestion financière de l’organisation et le cadre de mesure des résultats du projet.

NB : Veuillez noter qu’il s’agit d’un processus très sélectif et nous ne contacterons que les organisations dont les projets seront retenus.

[1] UNDAIS, 2017, Ending AIDS: Progress towards the 90-90-90 targets (PDF)

[2] ONUSIDA, 2016, Rapport sur le retard pris en matière de prévention

[3] AVERT, 2018, Growing Older and Ageing with HIV

[4] Negin, J and Cumming, R, 2010. HIV infection in older adults in Sub –Saharan Africa: extrapolating prevalence from existing data.

Ci-dessous, les formulaires à remplir:

CANEVAS DE DEMANDE -JOURNEE MONDIALE DE LUTTE CONTRE LE SIDA 2018

GUIDE D’ELABORATION DE BUDGET – 2018

EVALUATION DE GESTION FINANCIERE – 2018

CADRE DE MESURE DE SUCCES

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[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]Since its founding by women’s rights activists in 1991, the 16 Days of Activism Campaign has been used as an organising strategy by individuals, groups and women’s rights organisations around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. Ending violence against women has been at the centre of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)’s work for several years. As part of AWDF’s support to the cause to eliminate VAW, AWDF supports the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign by awarding grants to women’s organisations in Africa to organise and coordinate activities around the event.

AWDF is therefore putting out a call for proposals for activities to mark 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence in 2018. In 2018, AWDF will fund small sized women’s rights organisations on the African continent to lend their voice to the campaign as well as participate in activities that will raise awareness and mobilise action around ending all forms of violence against women and girls in universities and other tertiary institutions.

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in educational contexts is an issue of great concern. It is a violation in its own right, and also has great repercussions for the well-being and future of women and girls. Many girls and young women are subjected to gender-based violence in or around the places where they study and seek education. These violations occur in different ways including rape, physical violence, stalking, sexual harassment, coerced sex-for-grades and emotional abuse. This is a violation of their human rights, and a form of gender-discrimination that has far-reaching physical, psychological and educational consequences.

Until gender-based violence is eliminated in and around universities and other tertiary institutions across Africa, many of the ambitious targets set by the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to provide safe and supportive learning environments, to end violence against girls and young women in all settings and to achieve gender equality, will not be realised.

As part of efforts to eliminate gender-based violence and to help achieve the SDGs, AWDF as part of activities to commemorate the 2018 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence seeks to support women’s rights organisations employing innovative approaches, methodologies, tools and resources that show positive results in preventing and responding to violence against women within tertiary institutions.

AWDF will prioritise applications from initiatives led by women students themselves and/or women’s rights organisations working closely with women’s student groups and movements in educational institutions.

We also encourage innovation- so send in your great ideas. Projects may include activities that;

• Promote the development and implementation of university policies and action plans on how to address all types of violence on campus, to foster a safe and discrimination free learning environment.
• Prevention of discrimination and sexual harassment in educational contexts
• Improve safety on campus and off -campus
• Initiatives that address non-violent conflict resolution, shifting harmful gender norms, power inequalities and dynamics on campus
• Create a gender aware safe and effective reporting and counselling system that gives effective support to survivors of VAWG.
• Empower women students to assert themselves and prevent themselves from violation and to seek assistance when violations occur
• Research on the drivers, risks and cultural contexts of VAWG on campus
• Create a movement of students, communities and stakeholders to eliminate VAWG and promote a violence-free, safe space for learning for women and women staff
• Interventions that will focus on involving other key stakeholders (such as lecturers, other staff and student leaders) in the transformation of gender discriminatory norms, attitudes and behaviours.
• Initiatives that would hold educational institutions accountable in their VAWG preventive work
• Mobilise community and stakeholders’ support to prevent VAWG in educational contexts

The current call is opened from 29 June to 20 July 2018. Applicants are to send in proposals with innovative advocacy strategies to address issues around eliminating violence against women and girls in tertiary institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant Organisation:

• Must have been in existence for at least 3 years
• Must be duly registered, at least with its local government structure
• Must be led by a woman and have a focus on Women’s Rights
• Must have the needed organisational structures for effective implementation of the project

• Must have an appreciable financial management system to properly account for funds received
• Must be capable of reporting back on the outcomes of the project
• Must be highly recommended by a donor agency, a grantee or partner of AWDF or the local government office
• Must complete the necessary application forms
• Must have an annual budget not more than US$100,000

Grant Size & Period

The grant size is US$2,000. Therefore, eligible projects should have a budget of not more than US$2,000 to be supported by AWDF funds. The grant period will be for 4 months from the date of award.

How to Apply

Interested women’s rights organisations should send in their proposals using the required application guidelines to the AWDF secretariat via email to awdf@africlub.net/awdf; shirley@africlub.net/awdf. The applicant must also complete and include a financial management assessment form and an outcome form.

NOTE: Please note that this is a very competitive process. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

Find the full application guidelines and required forms below

APPLICATION GUIDELINES -16 DAYS AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE

AWDF PROPOSAL BUDGET WORKSHEET – 2018

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES – 2018

FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING OUTCOMES [/tp]

[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]Depuis sa création en 1991, les activistes des droits des femmes, des individus, des groupes et des organisations de défense des droits des femmes dans le monde se sont servis de la Campagne des 16 Jours d’activisme comme stratégie de mobilisation pour éliminer toutes formes de violences faites aux femmes. La lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes a toujours été au centre des activités de l’AWDF depuis plusieurs années. Dans le cadre de son appui pour éliminer les violences faites aux femmes, l’AWDF va donc octroyer des subventions aux organisations de défense des droits des femmes en Afrique afin de leur permettre d’organiser et coordonner des activités pour cette campagne.

L’AWDF lance donc un appel à projets pour la mise en œuvre d’activités en vue de la commémoration de la campagne mondiale des “16 jours d’activisme contre les violences basées sur le genre” de cette année. Dans cette optique d’appuyer la campagne mondiale de 2018, l’AWDF va financer les petites organisations de défense des droits des femmes en Afrique pour se rallier à cette campagne et prendre part aux activités qui viseront à mettre fin à toutes formes de violence faites aux femmes et aux filles dans leurs communautés. Cette année nous ciblons particulièrement les projets dont les objectifs visent à éliminer les violences faites aux femmes et filles en milieu universitaire et dans les institutions de l’enseignement supérieur.

Les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles en milieux scolaires, demeurent une grande préoccupation. Ce sont des violations qui ont des conséquences néfastes sur le bien-être et l’avenir des femmes et filles. Bon nombre de filles et de jeunes femmes sont victimes de violences basées sur le genre dans leur milieu scolaire. Ces violations se produisent sous plusieurs formes notamment viol, violence physique, harcèlement sexuelle, rapport sexuel forcés en échange pour des notes et violence émotionnelle. Ce sont des violations de leurs droits fondamentaux et une sorte de discrimination basée sur le genre qui a de lourdes conséquences sur les plans physiques, psychologiques et scolaires.

Si nous n’éliminons pas toutes les formes de violences basées sur le genre dans et autour de nos universités et autres institutions d’enseignement supérieur en Afrique, nous ne réaliserons en aucun cas les objectifs ambitieux fixés par la communauté mondiale à travers les Objectifs de Développement Durables (ODD) à savoir assurer un milieu d’apprentissage favorable, mettre fin à toute formes de violences faites aux filles et aux jeunes femmes dans tous les contextes et réaliser l’égalité des sexes

Afin d’éliminer les violences basées sur le genre, de réaliser les ODD et dans le cadre de ses activités de commémoration de la campagne des 16 jours d’activisme contre les violences basées sur le genre, l’AWDF cherche à appuyer des organisations de défense des droits des femmes qui utilisent des approches, des méthodologies, des outils et des ressources innovantes qui produisent des résultats positifs en matière de prévention et de réponses aux violences faites aux femmes dans les institutions de l’enseignement supérieur.

L’AWDF va prioriser les initiatives dirigées par les étudiantes elles-mêmes et/ou des organisations de défense des droits des femmes qui travaillent en étroite collaboration avec des groupes et mouvements estudiantins des établissements d’enseignement supérieur.

L’AWDF est passionnée par l’innovation et vous encourage donc à envoyer vos idées ingénieuses qui visent à

• Promouvoir l’élaboration et la mise en œuvre de politiques et de plans d’action universitaires sur la lutte contre les formes de violences dans les universités afin de bâtir un lieu d’apprentissage favorable et sans discrimination.
• Mettre fin à la discrimination et au harcèlement sexuels dans les milieux scolaires.
• Renforcer la sécurité dans les milieux scolaires et hors des campus
• Promouvoir la culture de la non-violence dans les règlements de conflits et à aborder les questions de changement des normes nuisibles relatives au genre, des inégalités et dynamiques de pouvoir en milieu universitaire
• Créer un système sensible au genre qui permettra de dénoncer les cas de violence, faire du counseling et donner un soutien adéquat aux victimes des violences faites aux femmes et aux filles.
• Responsabiliser les étudiantes pour leur permettre d’éviter de toute forme de violation et de demander de l’aide en cas de violation.

• Faire des recherches sur les facteurs, les risques et les contextes culturels des violences faites aux femmes et filles sur les campus.
• Créer non seulement un mouvement estudiantin, communautaire et de parties prenantes pour éliminer les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles mais aussi promouvoir un espace d’apprentissage favorable et sans violence pour les femmes et les membres du personnel qui sont des femmes.
• Entreprendre des interventions axées sur l’implication d’autres parties prenantes importantes (à savoir professeurs, autres membres du personnel et dirigeants des mouvements d’étudiants) dans les actions de changement de normes, d’attitudes et de comportements discriminatoires en matière de genre.
• Développer des initiatives qui vont impliquer les intervenants principaux (professeurs, leaders du mouvement des enseignants et des étudiants) en vue du changement des normes sexo spécifiques, attitudes et comportements discriminatoires.
• Développer des projets destinés à emmener les institutions universitaires à rendre compte de leurs actions de prévention contre les violences faites aux femmes et filles.
• Mobiliser le soutien des communautés et des parties prenantes pour la prévention des violences faites aux femmes et filles dans le contexte scolaire.

Cet appel est lancé du 29 juin au 20 juillet 2018. Les organisations postulantes doivent envoyer des projets innovateurs avec des stratégies efficaces en vue d’aborder la question des violences faites aux femmes et filles dans les établissements de l’enseignement supérieur.

Critère d’Eligibilité

L’organisation postulante doit

• avoir au moins 3 ans d’existence ;
• être dûment enregistrée au moins auprès de la préfecture de son pays ;
• être dirigée par une femme ;
• avoir des structures adéquates de gestions de projet ;
• avoir un système de gestion financière ;
• pouvoir produire un rapport sur les résultats du projet ;
• être hautement recommandée par un bailleur de fonds, une organisation bénéficiaire de l’AWDF ou la préfecture du pays où elle intervient ;
• remplir le formulaire de demande ;
• avoir un maximum de 100000 dollars comme budget annuel.

Montant de la Subvention

Le montant de la subvention s’élève à 2000$. Les projets retenus doivent présenter un budget maximum de 2000$. La subvention s’étend sur une période de 4 mois à compter de la date d’attribution.

Comment postuler ?

Nous demandons aux organisations intéressées d’envoyer leurs projets au secrétariat de l’AWDF par email à awdf@africlub.net/awdf; shirley@africlub.net/awdf.

Vous devez suivre le canevas de demande qui comprend également le formulaire d’évaluation de la gestion financière de l’organisation et le cadre de mesure des résultats du projet.

NB : Veuillez noter qu’il s’agit d’un processus très sélectif et nous ne contacterons que les organisations dont les projets seront retenus.

MODALITE DE DEMANDE – 16 JOURS D’ACTIVISME

GUIDE D’ELABORATION DE BUDGET – 2018

EVALUATION DE GESTION FINANCIERE – 2018

CADRE DE MESURE DE SUCCES

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This year, AWDF set the stage for our new strategic plan Shaping the Future (2017-2021). It was a year of significant expansion in our budget, in our programming and also growth in our staff team as we began our planned scale-up in contributions in the world of African feminist philanthropy. Under our new strategic plan, AWDF has a threefold aim of resourcing African women’s organisations and movements to promote, protect and realise women’s human rights, amplifying African women’s rights, concerns and resourcing agendas; and sustaining AWDF as a financially secure, effective and well governed feminist philanthropic organisation.

To read our activity report in full, click the link below.

AWDF Activity Report 2017

[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]AWDF is excited to announce the award of the second round of grants for “Leading from the South” for Africa and the Middle East, supporting advocacy and lobbying to advance women’s rights.

We received many exciting applications from women’s rights organisations and coalitions from across Africa and the Middle East that spanned the full range of our thematic areas, and contained innovative approaches to advocacy work. We would like to commend all eligible applicants for putting forward thorough and engaging applications. After a rigorous screening, 22 grants have been approved with grant awards totaling US $5,657,900.

See the breakdown of the Data and the full grants list below.

 

LFS Grantees: Round 2

Yalla Grantees

1. Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc / Rabat, Morocco
2. Association des Femmes Handicapées de Madagascar (AFHAM), Madagascar
3. Institute For Social Transformation (IST), Uganda
4. Rural Women’s Movement (RWM), South Africa

Ananse Grantees

1. ABANTU For Development, Ghana
2. Alliances for Africa, Nigeria
3. Anti-Racism Movement (ARM), Lebanon
4. EarthLore Foundation, South Africa
5. Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA Kenya), Kenya
6. Horizons Femmes, Cameroon
7. Psycho Social Counseling Center for Women, Palestine
8. The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, South Africa
9. Womankind Kenya, Kenya
10. Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), Nigeria
11. Women and Law in Southern Africa, Zambia
12. Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe (WFOZ), Zimbabwe
13. Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), Uganda
14. The Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF), Nigeria

 

Pamoja Grantees

1. Collective for Research and Training on Development Action (CRTDA), Lebanon
2. FEMNET- The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Kenya
3. Women in Law and Development in Africa – Afrique de l’Ouest (WiLDAF), Togo
4. Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL), South Africa

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L’AWDF a le plaisir de vous annoncer sa deuxième série de subventions octroyées en Afrique et au Moyen Orient dans le cadre du projet «LE SUD AUX RÊNES DU LEADERSHIP» dont l’objectif est d’appuyer les actions de plaidoyer et de lobbying en vue de la promotion des droits des femmes.

La demande était très énorme. Les organisations de défenses des droits des femmes et des coalitions en Afrique et au Moyen Orient ont envoyé des propositions de projets intéressants et après un examen rigoureux de ces dossiers, 22 subventions d’un montant total de 5657900 de dollars américains ont été approuvées.

Ci-dessous les détails sur les organisations sélectionnées

Bénéficiaires de LFS : 2^e cycle de subventions

Bénéficiaires de la catégorie Yalla

Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc / Rabat, Maroc

Association des Femmes Handicapées de Madagascar (AFHAM), Madagascar

Institute For Social Transformation (IST), Ouganda

Rural Women’s Movement (RWM), Afrique du Sud

 

Bénéficiaires de la catégorie Ananse

ABANTU For Development, Ghana

Alliances for Africa, Nigeria

Anti-Racism Movement (ARM), Liban

EarthLore Foundation, Afrique du Sud

Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA Kenya), Kenya

Horizons Femmes, Cameroun

Psycho Social Counseling Center for Women, Palestine

The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, Afrique du Sud

Womankind Kenya, Kenya

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), Nigeria

Women and Law in Southern Africa, Zambie

Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe (WFOZ), Zimbabwe

Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), Ouganda

The Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF), Nigeria

 

Bénéficiaires de la catégorie Pamoja

Collective for Research and Training on Development Action (CRTDA), Liban

FEMNET- The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Kenya

Women in Law and Development in Africa – Afrique de l’Ouest (WiLDAF), Togo

Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL), Afrique du Sud

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To apply, download the relevant forms, guidelines, budget and financial management templates below:

LFS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

LFS Round 3 Guidelines (English)

LFS 2018 Application Form: Yalla

LFS 2018 Application Form : Ananse

LFS 2018 Application Form: Pamoja

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The CEO Forum and coaching programme, designed by African feminists, develops the individual and collective leadership skills of women leaders who are at different points in their careers (senior, mid-level and emerging). As a Capacity Building Programme, this space also addresses critical gap areas while strengthening institutional and governance structures and providing an enabling framework for their sustainability. With this 7th CEO Forum and 4th coaching programme, we have over the years gained specialised knowledge of the persistent challenges African women’s organisations contend with concerning resource mobilisation, communications, governance, leadership transition, safety and wellbeing.

The story below, is from one of the participants of the CEO forum and Manda program. She describes how the programme has changed not only her approach to leadership, but her approach to life in general.

VALNORA EDWIN
Executive Director: Campaign for Good Governance
Sierra Leone

 

“This has been a mind-opening experience. I think of a quote that says, It’s not about you but it’s all about you. It’s not anything personal about you but there’s a lot you have to do about yourself to be a better person. As the CEO, you take the lead in making the organisation a better place. There have been quite a lot of conversations both in the sessions and informally that shows that you are not alone. You feel you are alone in the bad experiences – you have a feeling of, is something wrong with me? What am I not doing right? Am I not communicating well? But in conversation we realise that it is something common but we need to work on ourselves to make things better.

The Wheel of Life – the nature and pace of the organisation – we’re all paying attention to that rather than ourselves. We need to work on ourselves, reflect and set targets and goals and that will help us to strengthen the team. I want my colleagues to do some reflection. Our governance structure is not too bad but it could be better than what we have now. While we were doing the baseline evaluation, in practice we are doing a couple of things but in terms of formalizing and developing tools, written policies and structures, these are things we will work on when we return to the office.

I’m very excited about the coaching and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m in another leadership training program in Sierra Leone which is also a 9-month program and it’s almost similar. This is preparing me for the next level – I don’t know what – and so I am excited for being equipped to do this”.

AWDF is thrilled to have been selected for support under the NoVo Foundation’s Radical Hope fund- a bold and imaginative initiative that seeks to support efforts focused on nurturing the movements we need and deepening our collective ability to build a more just and balanced world.

We are looking to re-inspire radical hope amongst African feminists through Flourish Project- a three-year initiative that will strengthen feminist organising across Africa through three key interventions:

1. Seedinginspiration for the growth of African feminist movements through intergenerational dialogues and documenting a generation of liberation-era feminist trailblazers;
2. Grounding through a pilot model of a retreat for African feminist activists facing burnout and stress, and in need of a reflective and healing space—designed and implemented in collaboration with AIR, a network of African practitioners developing transformative feminist approaches to trauma, emotional wellbeing, and mental health
3. Connectingfeminist activists to convene and grow their organising at national and community levels linked to the African Feminist Forum.

“The Flourish Project aims to do what the name suggests- refresh and tend to the vibrant movement of African feminists who have and will continue to shape the future of Africa” says Jessica Horn, Director of Programmes at AWDF. “We are excited that Novo has recognised the need to invest in the deep movement work that also needs support alongside frontline advocacy: the work of documenting and sharing our activist legacies, of finding durable ways to sustain activists working in hostile terrain, and of keeping movement strategy and base-building spaces alive”.

For more information on Radical Hope, read the Novo Foundation press release here

 

 

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Are you passionate about women’s rights in Africa, excited about African feminism, and embrace African women’s diversities?

Do you have experience of implementing programmes aimed at movement building, encouraging innovation?

Are you ready to contribute to developing cutting-edge programming in women’s rights around feminist movement building, activist well-being and artivism/ arts, culture and tech for women’s rights?

 

The Programme Officer- Catalytic Initiatives, plays an exciting role in the Programmes Department supporting AWDF’s role as host of the African Feminist Forum and implementation of new programming areas around the arts, culture and technology for women’s rights; and activist wellbeing. Reporting to and working in close collaboration with the Director of Programmes, the Officer will implement a diverse portfolio of projects that involve a high level of creative thinking and an open attitude to experimentation, learning and programme improvement. The Officer will work with the Grants Department to support grantmaking in line with the project areas, as well as with the Knowledge Management and Communications teams in producing externally-facing information, documentation and analysis. The Officer will also liaise with external consultants in the delivery of project objectives.

Excellent knowledge of English is required. Working knowledge of French is desirable.

For the full Job Description CLICK HERE