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The BRICS axis of trade and investment offers great opportunity for Africa’s continued economic growth. But is the BRICS effect a game-changer in social investment? What’s new in BRICS models of philanthropy and social investment? Where does Africa fit in the priorities of BRICS social investors? And how can philanthropy from emerging economies help to tackle Africa’s social justice challenges in a fresh way? The 2012 assembly of the African Grantmakers Network will ask social investment experts from BRICS countries about the BRICS effect and explore what Africa can gain from these new developments. Click here to register now!

The African Grantmakers Network is a continent-wide platform to grow an African voice and agenda for philanthropy.

Main conference days: 30 October to 1 November 2012.
Satellite meetings: 29 October and 2 November 2012.

For more information contact Shekeshe Mokgosi at the Southern Africa Trust smokgosi[at]southernafricatrust.org.

AWDF is proud to support the participation of women artists in the 2012 edition of High Vibes produced by Creative Storm, Pidgin Music and Alliance Francaise (Accra).

For details of events please see poster below

BURSARY ANNOUNCEMENT

International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM)

IWRM Africa 2012

Don’t miss out – the IWRM Africa is your starting point for fundraising success!

 

27 – 30 November, 2012 Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Kampala (Uganda)

The International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) Africa will take place in Kampala, Uganda from 27 – 30 November 2012. The IWRM Africa is the Resource Alliance’s second African IWRM and is organised in parnership with The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). This 4 day workshop will address the major challenges faced by African NGOs in the areas of financial security and sustainability. The aim of IWRM Africa is to enhance the ability of African non-governmental organisations to mobilise resources for their cause. The Resource Alliance has 11 years history of organising the IWRM. It is widely recognised as the leading training opportunity to building the fundraising capacity of non-profit organisations in the emerging economics. Host countries have included India, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa and Kenya. For more information on the programme and the workshop please email iwrm@resource-alliance.org

AWDF Bursary

AWDF has put in place a small bursary to sponsor a minimum number of existing AWDF grantees to attend the IWRM. The bursary will cover only airfare and local transport for residential and non-residential delegates respectively. Applying Grantees should be ready to cost share and priority will be given to applicants who state this in their application. All successful applicants must be ready to submit a report from the workshop following a set of guidelines to be provided by AWDF. Please note that only one staff per organization will qualify for the bursary. Priority will be given to organizations that have never benefited from AWDF bursary to attend the IWRM.

 

How to apply for the AWDF Bursary

Organisations applying on behalf of staff members should submit the following documents:

• Application letter including the following:

• Name of organisation
• Address (both physical and postal)
• Telephone and Fax number
• Contact person’s name and title
• Applicant’s CV
• A maximum of 2 pages write up explaining how you intend to utilising skills acquired from the IWRM within your organisation.
• A signed recommendation letter from applicant’s organizations
• A budget (Please note that the final decision will be taken by AWDF)

Important information

The selection process will be highly competitive and will adhere strictly to the entry requirements and fundraising needs of organisations. No application will be reviewed without a signed recommendation letter from applicant’s organisation’s head. Soft copies of your application should be emailed to awdf@africlub.net/awdf.

Please send both hard and soft copies of your application documents to the following address:

 

The Grants Administrator

78 Ambassadorial Enclave

East Legon, Accra, Ghana

 

PMB CT89 Cantonments

Accra, Ghana

Tel: +233 302 521257

Email: awdf@africlub.net/awdf

 

Note that the deadline for receiving all applications is Tuesday, October 2^nd 2012. This bursary is open to existing AWDF grantees only

NOTE: THE IWRM IS CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH WITH NO TRANSLATION FACILITIIES.

 

In 2011 the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) made grants worth US$2,722,440 to 208 organisations across 29 countries in Africa over six thematic areas.

 

 

For further details on grantee partners please see the documents below:

List of 2011 grantee partners

Summary of grantee partners per country

The Executive Board of the African Women’s Development Fund is pleased to announce that Theo Sowa has agreed to be confirmed in post as AWDF’s CEO.

AWDF’s Board Chair and Co-Founder Dr Hilda Tadria says, “ As many of you know, AWDF’s visionary Executive Director and Co-Founder, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, having led AWDF since inception, stepped down at the end of 2010, following her husband’s election as Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Theo was approached to step in as Interim CEO, to provide a safe pair of hands for the organisation while the Board found the new substantive CEO. Theo did a sterling job of handling the transition for AWDF and her quiet, inclusive, yet firm leadership meant that many stakeholders did not even notice the transition taking place. Having started the Executive search, it became clear very quickly to the Board that the best person for the post was Theo and that confirming her in post would allow also for consistency, continuity and the grounding of some of the adapted systems she has introduced. I am sure you will join with the Board and staff of AWDF in our pleasure at this development.”

To read the full press please click here

 

 

We have had a most active first half of the year over here at AWDF, from launching an ambassador for our new thematic area, to celebrating International Women’s Day in memorable style, to fundraisers, to organisational events for grantees.

Finally, here is a modest compilation of these months for your reading pleasure: Our Newsletter – January to June 2012

We look forward to your feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is the pleasure of African Women’s Development Fund to announce that they are now accepting proposals for grants concerning HIV/AIDS. Below is a link to the proposal document which applicants may download.

Please remember to fill in the Guidelines AS WELL AS the Financial Management Assessment Document, both downloadable from here:

CALL FOR PROPOSAL – HRR & ACS Thematic Areas

Grant Application Guidelines

Financial Management Assessment Guidelines AWDF

Applicants can also send a request to AWDF at grants@africlub.net/awdf titled “HRR AND ACS Call for Proposals” to be emailed the guideline documents, if for any reason, they are unable to download it from the website.

Please see link below for PDF of document

WOMEN LEADING AFRICA VOL1A

In recent months, AWDF has noticed with deep concern, a rise in the frequency of violence-related deaths and injuries, and domestic violence cases being reported by the various Ghanaian mediahouses. Not only does it seem that violence has increased, it also seems that it comes in a wider variety of instances, some increasingly brutal and others startlingly fatal.

 

In reaction to this, three of our staff put together this personal blog piece on a call to action against violence against women very recently. Barely two weeks after, the Ghanaian celebrity representative to the popular South Africa-based Big Brother Africa, a very visible and internationally broadcasted reality show, slapped a fellow female housemate in a shocking act of violence which had them both expelled from the show, and left the entire continent debating. Our Communications Officer, Nana Sekyiamah issued an emphatic disapproval of this action of violence by a male against a female, and this was captured on leading radio stations and by Big Brother’s website.

 

These events have prompted us on the need to always ensure the availability of educative and preventive materials for victims and potential victims as well as perpetrators, on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women. Hence, this resource paper on what defines Domestic Violence and places to go to for safety, counselling, protection and violence-related support in several countries all over the continent of Africa.

 

Violence rates are rising everywhere, for a variety of reasons, and as Mr. Freeman Tettey, DOVVSU (Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit) Public Relations Officer said in an interview with The Times newspaper in Accra in March this year, there were 15, 495 reported cases of violence against women last year in Ghana, and 2,474 cases of woman-to-man violence cases in the same period. It is about time we increase public awareness and education of this negative situation in our societies.

For the Resource Paper on Violence Against Women (What to do, Where to go), please click the link below:

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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About the African Women’s Development Fund

Over the past ten years, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has blazed a trail for women’s rights and philanthropy across the African continent. AWDF is an African, not for profit, grantmaking organisation. Since the start of operations in 2001, AWDF has provided US$19 million in grants to 800 women’s organisations in 42 African countries.

AWDF’s grant making processes are uniquely designed to meet the needs of African women and activities include the provision of small and larger grants to African women’s organisations, capacity building support and a strong focus on advocacy and movement building.

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to support the Open Forum 2012 on the theme of ‘Money, Power and Sex’. This event takes place from the 22nd -25th May at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in South Africa.

On Tuesday 22nd May in room 2.62 at the CTICC, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, AWDF’s Communications Officer will moderate a session on:

“Organising Online: Feminists share experiences of cyber activism” with panelists Hakima Abbas, (Executive Director, Fahamu); Gathoni Blessol, (Co-Founder of Watetezihaki Platform); Jan Moolman, (Association for Progressive Communications); Minna Salami, (Blogger & Writer, Ms Afropolitan); and Spectra Speaks (Afrofeminist WriterArtivist, and Executive Editor of Queer Women of Color and Friends). In this conversation, feminists from Africa and the Diaspora share details of their online activism, connecting with feminists online, managing safety and security online, and linkages between online and offline activism.

On Wednesday 23rd May in the main auditorum Theo Sowa, Interim CEO of AWDF will provide an overview of ‘Power’ and its connections to Money and Sex.

AWDF looks forward to connecting with participants attending the 2012 Open Forum.