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In 2013, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) provided grants of US$2,232,250 to 126 women’s rights organisations in 27 African countries.

 

Our smallest grant was US$4,000 to a community based organization and our largest grant was US$90,000 to a national organization.

 

We worked in the following African countries: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

 

Our work is spread across 6 thematic areas:

 

• Women’s Human Rights
• Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods
• Governance, Peace and Security
• Reproductive Health and Rights
• HIV and AIDS
• Arts, Culture and Sports

* Many thanks to Catchafire who matched us with Brian Coursen who volunteered his time and talent to create this infographic of our grantmaking in 2013

In this video Beatrice Boakye-Yiadom, AWDF’s Grants Manager speaks to Mawusi Nudekor Awity, Executive Director of the Network of Women in Growth (NEWIG), Ghana, about business management skills and enterprise development for community based women.Mawusi also shares how AWDF’s capacity building support has enabled NEWIG to reach potential new donor partners.

 

 

In 2012, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a total of 905 grant applications from 35 Africancountries. A total of 187 organisations from 32 African countries were awarded grants of $2,176,500 in the following thematic areas: Women’s Human Rights, Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, Governance, Peace and Security, Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Arts, Culture and Sports.

The highest percentage of grants awarded (34.3%) was in the area of Women’s Human Rights. In this thematic area AWDF prioritized funding work that addresses issues of gender based violence and access to justice including issues of forced marriages, female genital mutilation and domestic violence. Other priorities included building young women’s leadership, movement building, the promotion and protection of women’s rights including land and property rights, and adult literacy for women. Our grantee partners working in this area utilized a variety of methodologies to meet their objectives including training paralegals, setting up monitoring committees, establishing gender clubs, implementing referral mechanisms and enhancing access to justice. Grantee partners also utilized sports, drama, radio, information vans and community/market place campaigns as a tool to disseminate information on Women’s Human Rights.

The breakdown of grants disbursed in other thematic areas were as follows:

Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods – 21%

HIV and AIDS – 19%

Governance, Peace and Security – 13.9%

Reproductive Health and Rights – 6%

Arts, Culture and Sports – 5%

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

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 PROPOSALS – HIV&AIDS Thematic Area

Grant Application Guidelines

Financial Management Assessment Guidelines AWDF Grant Applications 2012

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

It is our pleasure to announce that African Women’s Development Fund is now accepting proposals for grants towards the commemoration of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2012.

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

Call for Proposals for 2012 16 days of Activism Against Gender Violence

Financial Management Assessment Guidelines AWDF Grant Applications 2012

The first eligible 20 applications to be received will win grants.

Applicants can also send a request to AWDF at grants@africlub.net/awdf titled “Guidelines for 16 Days” to be emailed the guideline documents, if for any reason, they are unable to download it from the website.

Are you currently a recipient of an AWDF grant? Or has your organisation ever recieved a grant for AWDF? If so, please fill the questionnaire in the link below.

AWDF Questionnaire for Financial management Assessment of grantees July 2011

Please email the completed questionnaire to awdf@africlub.net/awdf and grants@africlub.net/awdf

Thank you for your support

[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]AWDF will be launching its new 5-year strategic plan 2011 – 2015 shortly. As part of the strategic plan, AWDF is reworking its grant making thematic areas. The six new thematic areas are:

• Women’s Human Rights

• Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods

• Governance, Peace and Security

• Reproductive Health and Rights

• HIV/AIDS

• Arts, Culture and Sports

Guidelines are being developed for each of the thematic areas and will be uploaded on AWDF’s website and various communication outlets on completion. A new schedule for grant applications will be published at the same time. Therefore, we are asking potential grant applicants to wait until after the thematic guidelines and the grant processing schedule are published before submitting any further applications. AWDF will not be processing new grants applications until that point.

Meanwhile we will continue to process applications that we have already received and duly acknowledged, which have increased enormously over the past year.

Please watch out for the publication of the guidelines and the grant processing schedule. We look forward to working with both new and old partners on these new exciting thematic areas.

 

Theo Sowa

Interim Chief Executive Officer

AWDF[/tp]

[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]AWDF lancera son nouveau plan stratégique de 5 ans de 2011 à 2015 sous peu. Dans le cadre du plan stratégique, AWDF retravaille sa subvention en faisant des domaines thématiques. Les six nouveaux domaines thématiques sont:

• Les droits des femmes
• Autonomisation économique et les moyens de subsistance
• Gouvernance, paix et sécurité
• Santé génésique et les droits
• VIH / SIDA
• Arts, Culture et Sport

Les lignes directrices sont en cours d’élaboration pour chacun des domaines thématiques et seront téléchargables sur le site Internet d’AWDF et différents points de vente de la communication sur l’achèvement. Un nouveau calendrier pour les demandes de subvention sera publié en même temps. Par conséquent, nous demandons aux demandeurs potentiels d’attendre que les lignes directrices thématiques et le calendrier de traitement de subvention soient publiés avant de soumettre d’autres applications. AWDF ne sera pas le traitement des nouvelles demandes de subventions jusqu’à ce point.

En attendant, nous allons continuer à traiter les demandes que nous avons déjà reçues et dûment reconnus, et qui ont considérablement augmenté au cours de l’année écoulée.

S’il vous plaît attention à la publication des lignes directrices et le calendrier de traitement de la subvention. Nous sommes impatients de travailler avec les nouveaux et les anciens partenaires sur ces nouveaux domaines thématiques passionnantes.

Theo Sowa

Directeur général par intérim

AWDF[/tp]

[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

THE AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FUND (AWDF) LAUNCHES A SOUTHERN AFRICAN SATELLITE OFFICE

On the 7^th of October 2010, Madam Graca Machel will launch the Southern African satellite office of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) at The Rosebank Crown Plaza Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. AWDF’s Guest of Honour for the occasion will be Her Excellency Joyce Banda, Vice President of Malawi.

AWDF has grown phenomenally in its 10-year history of grant-making, technical assistance and capacity building to African women’s rights organizations. In order to further strengthen its support to women’s rights organizations, AWDF will be establishing satellite offices with the first satellite office based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Southern African satellite office seeks to support and strengthen the work of grantee partners in the sub-region and contribute to strengthening the women’s movement as a whole. AWDF’s Head Office will remain in Accra, Ghana. Ahead of the official launch of the Southern African office, AWDF will hold a convening with its grantees and development partners in Southern Africa to strategise on achievements, challenges, and future work required to develop women’s rights organizations and the women’s movement in the Southern African sub-region. This convening will inform the strategic work to be undertaken by AWDF ‘s satellite office.

According to AWDF’s Executive Director, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, ‘AWDF is pleased to announce the imminent launch of its Southern African satellite office. I am also pleased to introduce the AWDF Southern African board members who are Professor Sesae Felicity Mpuchane, Patricia Nozipho January Bardill, Namane Mileah Maga Magau, Angie Makwetla, Tina Thiart, Dr Hilda Tadria, Joana Foster, Yvonne Mhinga and Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi. Together we look forward to supporting the work of African women’s rights organizations in Southern Africa’

ENDS

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organizations in Africa working towards women’s empowerment. AWDF through institutional capacity building and program development seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women’s movement.

The vision of AWDF is for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilize financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women, which will lead to the achievement of this vision.

 

Press Enquiries

 

South Africa

Myesha Jenkins (AWDF Southern Africa Consultant)

Tel: + 27 827 648 208

Email: myeshaj@mweb.co.za

Website: www.africlub.net/awdf

Ghana

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Programme Officer for Communications)

Tel: +233 302 521 257

Email: nana@africlub.net/awdf

Website: www.africlub.net/awdf[/tp]

[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE

Pour diffusion immédiate

Le Fonds Africain de Développement de la Femme (AWDF) LANCE UN BUREAU SATELLITE en AFRIQUE AUSTRALE

Le 7 Octobre 2010, Madame Graca Machel lancera le bureau satellite de l’Afrique australe du Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (AWDF) à The Rosebank Hôtel Crown Plaza, Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud. L’invité de AWDF d’honneur pour l’occasion sera Son Excellence Joyce Banda, vice-président du Malawi.

AWDF a connu une croissance phénoménale dans son histoire de 10 ans de l’octroi de subventions, d’assistance technique et de renforcement des capacités pour les organisations de femmes africaines de l’homme. Afin de renforcer encore son soutien aux organisations des droits des femmes, AWDF sera la création de bureaux satellites avec le premier bureau satellite basée à Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud. Le bureau satellite de l’Afrique australe vise à soutenir et renforcer le travail des partenaires bénéficiaires de subventions dans la sous-région et de contribuer à renforcer le mouvement des femmes dans son ensemble. Siège de AWDF restera à Accra, au Ghana. Avant le lancement officiel de l’Office de l’Afrique australe, AWDF tiendra une convocation avec ses bénéficiaires et les partenaires de développement de l’Afrique australe à élaborer des stratégies sur les réalisations, les défis et les travaux futurs nécessaires pour développer les organisations des droits des femmes et le mouvement des femmes de la sous de l’Afrique australe -région. Cette convocation informera le travail stratégique à entreprendre par bureau satellite de l ‘AWDF.

Selon le directeur exécutif de l’AWDF, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, ‘AWDF est heureux d’annoncer le lancement imminent de son bureau satellite de l’Afrique australe. Je suis également heureux de vous présenter les membres de l’Afrique australe AWDF du conseil qui sont le professeur Sesae Felicity Mpuchane, Patricia Nozipho Janvier Bardill, Namane Mileah Maga Magau, Angie Makwetla, Tina Thiart, Dr Hilda Tadria, Joana Foster, Yvonne Mhinga et Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi. Ensemble, nous sommes impatients de soutenir le travail des organisations de femmes africaines de l’homme en Afrique australe ‘

ENDS

Le Fonds de développement des femmes africaines (AWDF) est une fondation d’octroi de subventions qui soutient des organisations locales, nationales et régionales en Afrique travaillent à l’autonomisation des femmes. AWDF à travers le renforcement des capacités institutionnelles et le développement de programme vise à construire une culture de l’apprentissage et des partenariats au sein du mouvement des femmes africaines.

La vision de AWDF est pour les femmes africaines de vivre dans un monde dans lequel il ya la justice sociale, l’égalité et le respect des droits humains des femmes. À cette fin, notre mission est de mobiliser des ressources financières pour soutenir les initiatives locales, nationales et régionales dirigées par des femmes, ce qui mènera à la réalisation de cette vision.

 

Demandes de la presse

Afrique du Sud

Myesha Jenkins (AWDF Southern Africa Consultant)

Tel: + 27 827 648 208

Email: myeshaj@mweb.co.za

Website: www.africlub.net/awdf

Ghana

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Programme Officer for Communications)

Tel: +233 302 521 257

Email: nana@africlub.net/awdf

Website: www.africlub.net/awdf[/tp]

A two-member team from AWDF and a documentary crew were in Liberia from the 3^rd of August to the 7^th of August to document the work and impact of AWDF in Liberia. In all the activities of 7 organisations and the testimonies of three women leaders in Liberia were recorded. The three women leaders included her Excellency President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Hon Varbah Gayflor, Minister of Gender and Development, Liberia and Hon Olubanke King-Akerele, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Liberia. Beneficiaries of the various projects also testified about the impact of AWDF’s grant-making, technical assistance and capacity building.

Some Outcomes

All grantees and personalities interviewed spoke about the uniqueness and the relevance of the work of AWDF. The results of AWDF’s funding and capacity building activities were evident in all the organizations visited.

– AWDF supported the active participation of women in the peace negotiations of the various warring factions and stakeholders during the conflict in Liberia

– AWDF have supported the building of women’s leadership skills for effective involvement in the reconstruction efforts in Liberia

– Young women have been trained and are being mentored to take up leadership positions in Liberia. These young women are also equipped to help build and maintain peace in their communities. One of the young leaders who graduated from WIPSEN’s young women’s leadership programme is presently the first deputy speaker of the Liberia Children’s Parliament

– AWDF has strengthened the organisational capacity of some women’s initiatives to provide critical services to the populace especially women living in deprived areas outside the capital, Monrovia. Services rendered include vocational training in hairdressing, dressmaking, catering and computer skills. Some beneficiaries also received micro finance and are presently running vibrant businesses that are catering for their needs and the needs of their families. These interventions have brought hope and joy to families especially children who can now benefit from proper growth and education. Many of these young women who benefit from these interventions are teenage mothers with no education or skills, many would have joined the teeming population of idle young people with no idea of what they can do with their lives.

– Through the support of AWDF, some market structures have been renovated and are presently in use. Women now have the congenial atmosphere to do their business and no longer have to bear the consequences of the vagaries of the weather. Consequently children who accompany their mothers to the marketplace have a healthier environment in which to play and grow

– Organisations such as the Angie Brooks centre has also trained a core group of women and men who are solidifying peace in their communities by promoting peace and subduing early warning signs of conflict within their communities. With readily available peace educators, mediators and negotiators, communities are learning to resolve conflict amicably and readily.

Outcome of Training in Resource Mobilisation Course

– As a result of the GIMPA Resource Mobilisation course that a staff member of WONGOSOL attended, it was agreed at their last board meeting that the board should hold a special retreat to deliberate on the important recommendations that the staff member made after attending the course. The board therefore set up a committee that was tasked with ensuring that the retreat takes place and makes the most out of the opportunities presented. The board has agreed to review and revisit their resource mobilization strategies as well as their systems and structures. It is expected that the retreat will take place in the month of September 2010. WONGOSOL is a network of NGOs in Liberia.

– For the New Liberian Women Organisation/Skills Training Centre, the Resource Mobilisation course provided the skills and the knowledge to strategise and to be able to visualize all opportunities for mobilizing resources. For example during the International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development Peace and Security (7^th-8^th March 2010), the New Liberian Women Organisation/Skills Training Centre using some graduates of its training centre made clothes and sold them to conference participants. They also launched an individual giving campaign starting from the streets and the market places of Monrovia and its environs out of which they got some money to purchase land and to commence the construction of an office complex that houses their offices and skills training centre. They have taken their income earning projects seriously and currently bake bread for sale. They have acquired a stall in the business area where they display their bread for sale. Their other income generating projects include tie & dye and sewing. They have also launched a campaign to get women to support initiatives for women. Again, the trainee has been sharing the knowledge and skills acquired with other women’s organisations in the country.

Beatrice Boakye-Yiadom (Grants Manager)

P.S: This post is the introduction to an internal report on AWDF’s M&E visit to Liberia