Category: grantees

WISA was started in April 2004 by Ms. Uduak Enefiok to promote women’s rights, gender equality and sustainable development for poor and excluded women, youth and children. The AWDF grant will be used to create awareness on HIV/AIDS and related mental and emotional health and wellbeing issues. Part of the project will engage CSOs, government and stakeholders to identify and address the barrier to accessing mental and emotional health and wellbeing services for women and girls infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Women’s Health and Equal Rights Association Rwanda (WHERAR) was started in 2013 by 6 Rwandan women to create a platform for women to exchange ideas around how issues of VAWG could be addressed. WHERAR works to empower young women and girls with information and skill to challenge patriarchal structures that perpetuate inequality within communities and for women to demand for their rights. The grant awarded is to help WHERAR promote women and girls mental and physical wellbeing through increasing NCDs preventive knowledge in project communities.

Women, Infants and Children Care Initiative (WICCI) was started in 2005 by Mrs. Doyinsola Ajoke Adebayo to empower and support vulnerable women and children in the local communities. They advocate for the passing of a Bill on violence against persons living with disabilities and are also part of the COVID-19 Gender Response Team to put an end to incidences of VAWG. The grant will help to prevent VAWG and promote the mental health and wellness of women and girls through the use of arts, culture and sports.

WOSAG was started by a group of women activists from the Northern Region of Ghana to provide opportunities and space for women and girls, to mobilise, take and lead actions and improve their welfare through capacity building, advocacy and community mobilization. With this grant, WOSAG will strengthen its institutional capacity to deliver programming and support women groups led change in Northern Ghana.

WILD was formed in January 2012 by a group of women seeking to empower women and girls to move from the periphery to the core of economic, social and political activity. The organisation’s mission is to enhance the capacity of women and girls to participate in economic and environmental activities, influence structural changes and have access to capital and markets. The AWDF grant will be used to support female informal traders in rural and urban contexts to self-mobilise and conduct local and national level advocacy for economic and financial inclusion.

WiLDAF- Togo is a member of the pan African network, Women in Law and Development. The network was formed in Harare Zimbabwe in 1990, however, the Togo chapter was officially opened in 1999. WiLDAF- Togo works to defend and promote the legal, economic, and socio-cultural rights of women, fight against violence against women and girls, promote women’s participation in decision making, promote maternal health and reduce obstetric fistula. The grant awarded is to help WiLDAF-Togo commemorate the 2020 sixteen days of activism against gender based violence on the theme, “together against VAWG to preserve women’s mental well-being”.

Women in Law and Development (WILDAF) – West Africa was founded by a group of women activists for women’s rights, who gathered in Harare, Zimbabwe in February 1990. The grant awarded is to help WiLDAF – AO advocate for the needs and rights of women and girls to be centred in all public policies to be implemented in 6 West African countries post COVID 19. The activities will include a review and analysis of national policies and measures on the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls and advocacy at the national and sub-regional level for the centering of women and girls’ rights in national policies including the equitable inclusion of women in decision making spaces that deliberate on these policies.

Women in Front Cameroon (WiFC) was formed in 2016 by 3 young feminist and LBTQ activists. WiFC works to mobilise LBQ women and girls to take up leadership positions and ensure sexual and reproductive health of women and girls of all sexual orientations and gender identities and provides them with STI care and treatment services. With the AWDF grant, WiFC will mount an advocacy campaign that will speak against VAWG especially against women living with HIV and AIDS. The grant will be used to organise psychological counselling sessions, form discussion groups among women survivors of violence and those living with HIV/AIDS and produce a short film to denounce VAWG

Women Challenged to Challenge was started by seven (7) women with disabilities with the aim of bringing together women with different disabilities in Kenya to address matters affecting their lives. With the grant, Women Challenged to Challenge will promote participation of women living with disabilities in politics. This will be done through sensitization on participation of WWD in leadership, campaigns on WWD’s right to leadership/political participation and the establishment of a network of WWD with political aspiration in 4 counties in Kenya.

Women & Community Livelihood Foundation (WOCLIF) was established in 2009 by Uduak Umoh, the current executive director to support widows. The organisation is known for being at the forefront in the fight against violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. The grant will be used to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of women and especially young women living with HIV/AIDS through community education on the challenges faced by women living with HIV/AIDS as it affects their emotional and mental health.