It is AWDF's goal to ensure that it remains financially sustainable so that it can continue to support women in Africa
AWDF is a women-led grant-making foundation that supports women's organizations working to ensure social justice, equality and respect for women's rights in Africa.
AWDF has been a group that has stood by women peace and security network. The key aspects of AWDF are grant-making, partnership, and outreached, has build AWDF as a financial sustainable feminist i…
There has been growing concern across Africa by activists and policymakers alike around the question of land rushes (especially after the 2007-2008 land rush) often framed as “land grabs” (see …
This article discusses the ecological and climate crisis, as a critical dimension of the manifold threats facing the planet and most of its peoples today. We locate the crises in an economic system…
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pan-African, women-led, grant-making foundation supporting African women’s organisations working at local, national, and regional level to promo…
Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told a story at AWDF’s 15th anniversary event. She had made a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a number of fellow Nobel Prize …
AWDF convened the African Women: Economic Futures (AWEF) at the Best Western Hotel in Accra, Ghana from September 13 to 15, 2018 as part of a movement building effort for conversation and activism …
The AWDF believes in adhering to generally acceptable principles and practices for effective grant making.
Women are the primary food producers globally. Within the continent of Africa, 57% of total female employment is within agriculture. The continent’s future of food security in the face of climate…