Category: Uncategorized

We focus on supporting organisations that are mobilizing women towards greater participation and leadership in peaceful community-building.

These organisations encourage political participation and leadership, peace and security, and reform. This may include service provisions for women, peace negotiations, early-warning mechanisms, and post-conflict development.

These efforts may result in projects that support feminist thought leadership and networking, legal and policy development, and medical care.

In turn, these organisations will seek to achieve the following goals:

• Greater access to government employment for women at all levels, including political office and decision-making.
• Greater support among women for progressive values, women’s rights, and accountability in government and public programs.
• Implemented policy and provisions for women’s rights in peace and security.

We focus on supporting organisations that create safe spaces for African women to exercise their rights towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

These organisations and groups strive to eliminate religious, cultural, political, economic, legal and social fundamentalisms that restrict women’s agency and human rights. They may also strive to eliminate effects of these larger fundamentalisms, like violence against women, or property rights that restrict ownership, inheritance, access, control of assets, and citizenship.

These efforts may result in projects that support policy development and reform, feminist movement-building, research, or training. They may also seek to educate and dispel negative stereotypes of African women.

In turn, these organisations will seek to achieve the following goals:

• Increased ratification and domestication of women’s instruments, agreements, laws and protocols (like the Maputo Protocol and other International Standards).
• Strengthened feminist movements at national and regional levels, including more forums and education for women.

We focus on supporting organisations that provide critical community support for the prevention, treatment, and care of HIV and AIDS for women and their families.

These organisations and groups strive to protect the rights of women living with HIV and AIDS, and seek to reduce the stigma of against those living with these diseases. They encourage leadership among these people, and seek to achieve greater accountability from governments and policy makers in supporting them.

These efforts may result in projects that support HIV prevention, economic empowerment, training, advocacy, research, and care and support.

In turn, these organisations will seek to achieve the following goals:

• Better access to prevention, treatment and care services for HIV and AIDS. This may include increasing the numbers of people who receive HIV prevention messages, care, and support.
• More strong, visible female leaders living openly with HIV and AIDS, and stronger feminist movements and advocates within these communities.
• More support groups and networks for women living with HIV.
• A higher number of women living with HIV and AIDS who have received start-up capital to expand income-earning opportunities.
• A reduction in stigma against women living with HIV and AIDS, and increased incomes for women living with these diseases.
• Greater accountability on HIV issues from governments and policy makers.

[tp lang=”en not_in=”fr”]We focus on supporting organisations that are innovating new strategies around African womens’ economic and food security, environmental issues like agriculture, climate change, and economic justice.

These efforts may result in projects that support economic security, skills development and training, and positive legislative and policy frameworks for African women.

In turn, these organisations will seek to achieve the following goals:

• A measurable increase in women’s economic security.
• More women with entrepreneurial skills, start-up capital, micro-finance, and earning opportunities.
• Increased numbers of women with training on economic policy.
• More research papers, engagements with local and national duty bearers, and forums to ensure women’s rights are factored into economic policy issues.
• A stronger position for women to advocate for their human rights and political participation[/tp]

[tp lang=”fr not_in=”en”]Nous nous concentrons sur les organisations qui innovent de nouvelles stratégies autour de la sécurité économique et alimentaire de femmes africaines, les questions environnementales comme l’agriculture, le changement climatique, et de la justice économique à l’appui.

Ces efforts peuvent aboutir à des projets qui contribuent à la sécurité économique, le développement des compétences et la formation, et de cadres législatifs et politiques positives pour les femmes africaines.

À leur tour, ces organisations vont chercher à atteindre les objectifs suivants:

• Une augmentation mesurable de la sécurité économique des femmes.
• Plus de femmes avec des compétences entrepreneuriales, capital de démarrage, de micro-finance, et de possibilités de gagner.
• Nombre de femmes a augmenté avec la formation sur la politique économique.
• Plus de documents de recherche, des engagements avec les détenteurs de droits locaux et nationaux, et des forums pour assurer les droits des femmes sont pris en compte dans les questions de politique économique.
• Une position plus forte pour les femmes de faire valoir leurs droits de l’homme et la participation politique.[/tp]

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