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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors, and extent of rights-based work to address the impact of NCDs on African women.

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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
promote, advance and realise African
women’s rights across the continent
(AWDF 2017). Since its inception in
2001, AWDF has acquired resources
from individuals, corporations, other
foundations and governments to
provide financial, capacity building,
knowledge production and advocacy
support to change-makers―African
women’s activist organisations and
individuals―who advance women’s
rights and gender equality on the
continent (AWDF 2017).
AWDF’s current strategic plan Shaping
the Future (2017-2021) focuses
the organisation’s work around
investments to build the best possible
future for women in Africa. As part of
developing the strategic plan, AWDF
commissioned a future trends analysis
titled, Futures Africa: Trends for Women
by 2030 (AWDF 2017). This report
indicated that non-communicable
diseases (NCDs) are rapidly growing
in terms of the burden of disease and
soon becoming the leading causes of
death in many countries across Africa
(AWDF 2017). Focusing on this often
neglected trend and the potential
opportunities to support women-led
initiatives in NCD response, AWDF
wants to understand:
What is the scale and what are
the key gendered concerns
around NCDs and women in
Africa?
Who are the key actors
responding to the rise in NCDs in
Africa?
How are these actors responding
and are gender, equity and
rights being considered in these
responses?
What are the opportunities
and challenges for African
women’s organisations
around engagement with NCD
prevention and control and what
are the ways to support greater
engagement on links between
NCDs and women’s rights?

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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases
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