Category: thematic areas
Leadership, Participation & Peace
Leadership, Participation & Peace
Advancing African women’s political rights, building feminist leadership and amplifying activist voices and action
AWDF supports interventions that work to expand political space, sustain inclusive governance and full participation of women, including in contexts of conflict prevention, response and peace building. We focus on diversity and quality leadership and participation, and building inclusive feminist leadership for transformation.
- Advancing diverse women’s participation in governance and decision-making at all levels
- Reframing security and advocating for interventions to support women’s human security in all contexts
- Challenging the rise and impacts of religious and cultural fundamentalisms on women’s rights in communities and on the state.
- Growing individual and collective feminist leadership for social, political and economic change and justice
- Defending open operating space for women’s rights organisations and defenders
Women’s Economic Security & Justice
Women’s Economic Security & Justice
Strengthening African women’s economic autonomy and supporting activism for economic justice AWDF supports interventions that seek to increase women’s economic decision-making power at micro and macro-levels, demand more equitable law and policy in economic spheres, and create an enabling environment for women to thrive including in relation to the physical environment and impacts of urbanization.
- Increasing acknowledgment of and protections around women’s economic activities and contributions (including the role of market women, informal sector labour, unpaid care work)
- Advancing food sovereignty and the leadership and participation of women as Africa’s majority food producers, particularly in decision-making around food and agriculture
- Defending women’s land, property and inheritance rights
- Supporting sustainable livelihoods initiatives for African women that are designed to impact on rights outcomes and are based on effective and just business models (sustainability, equity,
profitability and growth potential as well as improved representation in economic decision
making). - Securing women’s housing rights, particularly in the context of urbanisation
- Strengthening women’s rights in actions on climate and environmental justice
Body & Health Rights
Body & Health Rights
Affirming the right of diverse African women and girls to full bodily integrity, autonomy and health. Supporting interventions that help prevent violence and ill health; promoting recognition of women’s ownership of their own bodies and enjoyment of full health; and responding to women’s bodily rights and health injustices and concerns. Drawing on the evidence base around what works from a feminist perspective, we will invest in growing and sharing feminist and rights-based methodologies that contribute to:
- Ending violence against women in all forms through prevention and response
- Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including on issues of sexual
- orientation, reproductive choice.
- Sustaining a focus on African women’s priorities and organising around HIV/AIDS
- Building awareness and feminist responses to the rise of non-communicable diseases (cancers anddiseases of lifestyle and nutrition)
- Growing African feminist understandings and approaches to emotional well-being and mental health
- Advancing progressive understandings and feminist movement building around gender identity and rights