Author: African Women's Development Fund

$1000 to develop IEC materials and organize a soccer gala to facilitate awareness creation on universal access to treatment.

$20,000 to support the organization of the 2011 Zimbabwe Feminist Forum. The forum is intended to open space for more dialogue, exchange of information, debates, knowledge generation and critical analyses of sexism and sexual oppression in Zimbabwe. Katswe will be supported by the Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN).

$1,000 to use mobile phone advocacy to educate people on the issues of gender based violence to commemorate the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

$10,000 to organize training for two groups in business management and modern farming techniques, provide beneficiaries with farming equipment such as watering cans, wheelbarrows, shovels and appropriate seeds. There will also be exchange learning programmes with other successful communities.

$20,000 for institutional development including resource mobilization, staff development and administration.

$15,000 to establish a revolving micro credit scheme to support women to start businesses of their own as well as to train credit beneficiaries in business and credit management and to monitor businesses of credit beneficiaries until they are firmly established.

$1000 to ensure the participation of Women living with HIV in the 2011 World AIDS day celebrations.

$5,000 to support the running of the institution’s home based care programme.

$4,800 for Executive Director of John Laing Community Home Based Care to participate in the ICASA 2011.

$1,000 to organize awareness creation activities on the recently enacted “Anti Gender Based Violence Act 2011”.