The Use of Political Motherhood in Egypt’s Arab Spring Uprising and Aftermath

Political motherhood, which uses traditional motherhood to mobilize and sustain women’s political participation, is understudied in political science. Women played a significant role in Egypt�…

Protection of the Family: A Human Rights Response

Recent moves at the UN for protection of the family conflict with established principles of international human rights law, including universality and indivisibility. Equality and respect for all h…

Women Building Africa Annual Report 2002

The y ear 2002 h as be en one of steady growth for an emerging philanthropic institution in Africa. We have increased our staff capacity, enhanced our grant-making systems, developed effec…

African Women Do Not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural I…

“Nebuchadnezzar lived in the bush and his nails became so long that they looked like claws of cats, following a punishment from God for his disobedience,” runs a May 1964 letter to ‘Women�…

A Journey of Hope and Recovery The Experience of the Polyclinic of Hope Women

In this regard, this documentation was synthesized from the women's total experiences and the processes they underwent in managing and overcoming the trauma each one of them suffered during the Rwa…

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Grantmaking Handbook

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) was established in 2001, and is an institutional capacity building and programme development fund, which aims to support the work of the African Wo…

Leading For Peace Building Human Security

Isis-WICCE has trained about one thousand two hundred women from twenty nine countries. Utilizing this number the organization continues to facilitate and strengthen the activities of the trained w…

Violence Against Women

In recent months, AWDF has noticed with deep concern, a rise in the frequency of violence-related deaths and injuries, and domestic violence cases being reported by the various Ghanaian media house…

The AWDF Strategic Plan 2006 - 2010

Over the past decade, international commitments to gender equality, equity and women's empowerment have been reaffirmed in different UN Conferences, including those contained in the Dakar and…