Reflections on Feminism and Development in Africa: The Case of Kenya
This paper discusses the importance of moving towards African centered feminist theories. The paper argues that bringing feminism home to Africa will greatly impact our understanding of development…
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AWDF Grantmaking Handbook
The AWDF believes in adhering to generally acceptable principles and practices for effective grant making.
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Creating Women’s Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of A…
Contextualising Gender, Peace and Security Post-Cold war global security shifts in the early 1990s created the space for a rethink of the dominant conceptualisations of security. Key questions coul…
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The Purple Ball
On August 12th, 2013, the hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen trended worldwide. In four short days, it was tweeted over 75,465 times (Topsy 2015). Coined by Mikki Kendall (@Karynthia) during a Twit…
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Africa Capacity Report 2015: Capacity Imperatives for Domestic Resource Mobil…
The Africa Capacity Report (ACR) 2015 sends a very clear message: with official development assistance to Africa diminishing, the continent will have to rely more on mobilizing domestic resources i…
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Equal Say, share and control: The Africa We Want
Over the last two decades, Africa has made tremendous strides in developing progressive frameworks to advance the rights of women on the continent.
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2012 Annual Report
2012 has been an eventful year for the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF). AWDF has made in supporting women led initiatives to transform their
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Ideal Women, Invisible Girls?
The following reflections are based on my ethnographic research. This had two focuses: on the one hand the roles of gender and Islam in everyday sociopolitical dynamics in the Sahrawi camps, and on…
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The New Philanthropy, Poverty Reduction and Rural Development: A Case Study o…
This study seeks to explore the significant contributions of the new philanthropy towards improving the conditions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan African, smallholder farmers’ understandin…
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Exploration of a "Gap": Strategising Gender Equity in African Universities
This paper reflects on the central themes of this dream by exploring some current thinking on the way in which dominant forces in African universities have opened up possibilities for strategising …
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