Author: African Women's Development Fund

$30,000 over a period of 2 years to train selected number of farmer groups and women associations in entrepreneurship development and value chain management. Part of the grant was earmarked for the establishment of networks among trained women with organizations that address the needs of grassroots women in agriculture and access to land.

$5,000 to train women in waste recycling (briquette making).

$20,000 to provide a platform for cultural integration and dialogue among women writers by bringing together women from different cultural settings and age groups.

$8,000 to organise an HIV anti Stigma campaign through TV and radio advertisements, community education and IEC materials.

$10,000 to organise HIV anti stigma campaign and education among women living with HIV&AIDS and to train and provide resources for 20 women living with HIV to serve up income generating projects of their choice such as market gardening, animal husbandry, fish farming and food preservation.

$12,000 to carry out activities around prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.

$10,000 to train 50 women selected from 10 local government areas in civic rights, electoral processes and voting techniques, to organise a march for peaceful elections and produce 20 radio programmes.

$15,000 to purchase office equipment (a computer, a scanner and a digital camera), to pay 4 staff salaries and office rent for a period of one year.

$15,000 to purchase and install a chilli hot pepper and peanut butter sauce making machines for the Dego Boka Halat Women Association and train the women farmers in chilli and peanut sauce production.

$30,000 to support a planned regional workshop on EAC trade policy and customs regulations scheduled to take place in March 2013.