Category: Publications
Exercising Women’s Leadership That Transforms Communities: Young Women’s Leadership & Akili Dada
Exercising Women’s Leadership That Transforms Communities: Young Women’s Leadership & Akili Dada
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Transcending Sexual Violence: Providing Support for Survivors through the Nairobi Women’s Hospital Gender Violence Recovery Centre
Transcending Sexual Violence: Providing Support for Survivors through the Nairobi Women’s Hospital Gender Violence Recovery Centre
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Exercising Women’s Leadership that Transforms Communities: Claris
Exercising Women’s Leadership that Transforms Communities: Claris
Go-getter. These are some of the words that can be usedto describe Claris. She is 19 years old and part of Paza, Akili Dada’s gap year programme in Kenya. Claris joined Akili Dada in her first year of high school, at Precious Blood-Riruta. Coming from MukuruKwa Reuben, a resource-strapped community
in Nairobi, she knew her chances of making it through high school were slim. She, therefore, sought
scholarships for higher learning from multiple organisations through the principal’s office. In addition to receiving a scholarship, she has been a project participant of the leadership academies supported by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF). The academies are spaces for reflection where Akili Dada scholars are equipped with life skills. This includes helping the girls understand themselves and their capacities comprehensively so that they identify how to best negotiate life in society. This in turn enables the project participants to excel in whatever they aspire to be and do, and to be the change leaders our world needs. At the leadership academies, young women also brainstorm new ways to
exercise leadership to transform their communities. In that regard, Akili Dada introduced Claris to the service learning concept. In turn, she decided to start a library in her community.
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Transcending Sexual Violence: Providing Support for Survivors through the Nairobi Women’s Hospital Gender Violence Recovery Centre
Transcending Sexual Violence: Providing Support for Survivors through the Nairobi Women’s Hospital Gender Violence Recovery Centre
Nelly*is a survivor of sexual violence who has persistently resolved to overcome stigma, rejection, fear and suicidal thoughts that threatened to immobilise her after she was raped in 2014. GVRC Project Participant Transcending Sexual Violence: Providing Support for Survivors through the Nairobi Women’s Hospital Gender Violence Recovery Centre .It has not been an easy journey. With the assistance of counselling staff and members of a sexual violence support group at the Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC) in Nairobi, she has made tremendous strides in her recovery. Currently, Nelly is positively channeling her energy to transform the lives of survivors of sexual violence by supporting children who have undergone abuse in the school where she works.
To read the entirety of Nelly’s Story click HERE : GVRC: Nelly’s Story
Transforming Girls, Young Women & Communities Through Boxing
Transforming Girls, Young Women & Communities Through Boxing
Transforming Girls, Young Women & Communities Through Boxing: Sofia Omar.
Transforming Girls, Young Women & Communities Through Boxing: Sofia Omar.
Sofia Omar, 19, is Muslim young woman and part of BoxGirls Kenya. She joined Box Girls whilst in high school, at the age of 16. As a result of engaging in the organisation’s programmes, she has honed her boxing skills. In addition, she has nurtured her entrepreneurial abilities and become more proficient in financial management. Currently a mini-coach and life skills facilitator, Sofia has defied the odds and transcended stereotypes on the basis of her gender and religion. As a result, she has leveraged an inborn capacity for leadership to influence her peers and mentor young girls and women in her community.
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Rapport de programmation axé sur les résultats en français – Atelier BURKINA Faso
Rapport de programmation axé sur les résultats en français – Atelier BURKINA Faso
L ’objectif de l’atelier de trois (3) jours sur la Programmation axée sur les résultats (RBP) est d’apporter un appui aux bénéficiaires du Fonds de Développement pour la Femme Africaine (AWDF) dans les domaines de l’application du RBP dans leurs organisations et de la conception de leurs programmes. Au total, 17 participantes ont pris part à l’atelier, deux membres de l’équipe de l’AWDF, un interprète et une animatrice. La liste des participantes et le programme figurent en annexe. Le présent rapport est structuré comme suit: 1) Résumé du contenu de l’atelier; 2) Observations et commentaires du formateur sur l’atelier; et 3) Recommandations et suggestions aux fins du suivi.
Results Based Programming Report in French -Burkina Faso Workshop
Arts Culture and Convening: Report
Arts Culture and Convening: Report
The culture industries of our world have historically been dominated by men and the African continent is no exception.
Women’s engagement in arts, cultural production and sports has led to the transmission of radical ideas, beliefs and attitudes. Women’s participation in cultural economies, also speaks to the immense value and contributions of women and invigorated connections and possibilities for communities across the continent and world. Through arts and sports, women have challenged and broken stereotypes, amplified the demands of women’s and feminist movements, raised resources, and spread messages of social change. Arts, culture and sports are critical sites for social transformation and movement building.
In spite of this work, women practitioners in arts, cultural production and sports face persistent restraints from intimidation, harassment, and theft of work to isolation, immobility, burnout and limited access to networks of care, support, and resources of sustainability. By working through a lens of intersectionality, African women are in a key position to speak out against multiple oppressions – gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, ethnicity, geography, etc. – within their fields of work.
Now more than ever, women practitioners are in a unique place to enable deeper engagement with and mobilisation of new constituencies of people, particularly young women.
Read more about this incredible convening which brought together artists from all over the continent to rethink artistic space, activist work and the intersections of the two.
Health and Safety Manual
Health and Safety Manual
This guide is for African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) grantees and other women’s rights organisations working in agri and food processing. Its goal is to provide important information on food health and safety practices that you can put into practice. When you do this, your business will get a good name. More people will want to be your customers. Your business will grow and you will earn income for your livelihoods.
We all use, process and sell food in our own different ways. But there are certain rules about food safety that apply to us all. We must make sure we manage our businesses in a safe way so that we don’t have injuries. And so our customers get healthy food.
This guide:
• explains how food gets contaminated
• tells you what signs to look out for
• shows how to prevent food you work with from making people sick
• offers tips and check lists to help you manage health and safety at work
• offers some activity ideas and ways to share this important information.
Find the entire guide here: Health & Safety Manual
Annual Resource Mobilisation Strategy and Development Bootcamp Report: 2015
Annual Resource Mobilisation Strategy and Development Bootcamp Report: 2015
Since 2013, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has been organising an Annual Resource Mobilisation Strategy Development Boot camp. During the boot camp, AWDF’s grantees are supported onsite to develop their Resource Mobilisation Strategies. The event which is now one of AWDF’s flagship capacity building activities has become popular with fundraisers within AWDF’s grantees as a critical step in developing their organisational financial sustainability. In September 2015, 15 fundraisers from 15 organisations from South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda participated in this year’s 4-day boot camp in Johannesburg, South Africa. This brings the total number of AWDF grantees who have participated in the annual boot camp to 56. All the 56 organisations now have Resource Mobilisation Strategies which they developed during the respective annual bootcamps.
You can find the full report below.