Author: African Women's Development Fund

$10,000 to provide training and start up capital for women living with HIV/AIDS and out of school girls.

$4,500 to build the capacity of bar maids (Bawa groups) in the Kibera slum area in the management of their businesses. Part of the grant will also be used to wage a HIV/AIDS stigma reduction campaign in the Kibera slum area.

$1,500 to support the participation of a young woman living with HIV&AIDS in the ICASA 2011 conference.

$1,000 to undertake a week long campaign on HIV prevention involving meetings with diverse groups of community members including church leaders, opinion leaders, teachers and adolescent. An HIV educational road show will be organized to round off the activities.

$3,000 to support Jacinta Nyachae, Executive Director of AIDS Law to participate in ICASA 2012

$30,000 to re-grant to selected LBTI and female sex worker groups in East Africa to undertake various human rights projects. This will strengthen individuals, organizations and networks of the LGBTI and sex worker movement and other sexual health and rights organizations.

$15000 is recommended as AWDF’s contribution for the construction and furnishing of a memorial library in honour of the late Dolphine M. A. Okech.

$10,000 to support African women’s efforts at creating an impact on the processes and outcomes of the Beijing +15 review and the 2010 CSW 54th Session.

$1,000 to undertake a community based campaign in six slum areas of Kisumu. The theme for the campaign is ‘Family Efforts Against Gender Based Violence’ as a community based strategy for addressing gender based violence issues.

$40,000 to collect and analyze the history of FEMNET and its contribution to the women’s movement in Africa, its gains and challenges. The information will be compiled into a book that will be disseminated as part of strategic information on African women’s development, equality and human rights to enhance advocacy efforts around gender.