Author: African Women's Development Fund

$30,000 to increase participation of girls in their self development through the organization of sporting and educational activities for girls and community leaders. This project will also help to mobilize and build that critical constituency that will help women to attain leadership positions in future. The project will serve as a platform for projecting women into leadership.

$20,000 to undertake series of educational and advocacy activities to improve public political interaction for female leaders in order to build, maintain and sustain their visibility, image and public trust.

$1000 to organize HIV testing and counselling for the community of Chikweo traditional authority area in Machinga district of Malawi. This will be supplemented by drama and poetry performances.

$1,000 to organize sensitization meetings; print and distribute IEC materials and to air gender based violence issues on the radio.

$20,000 to collate and document the contributions of Right Honourable Joyce Banda to the empowerment of women and rural communities in Malawi over a 20 year period

$1000 to train 25 peer educators and create awareness on the need to fight teenage pregnancy.

$15,000 to organize series of educational activities on reproductive health issues for adolescent girls in Margibi County as well as to support interested teenage female sex workers with income generating activities.

$30,000 to assist in funding the participation of young African women in the African Leadership centre, their placements in feminist organisations and mentoring by feminist leaders.

$15,000 to mobilize grassroots women to actively participate in the 2011 local level elections in 8 Local Government Areas (Zaria, SabonGari, Kudan, Makarfi, Ikara, Kubau, Soba and Lere) of Kaduna State.

$15,000 to support the expansion of GROOTS work under the “Champions for Transformative Leadership” project under the Women Leadership and Governance program.