Compendium of Key Human Rights Documents for African Women : First Edition

The Compendium of Key Instruments for African Women's Human Rights is an important resource for women's rights activists around the world. This Compendium is unique in providing all the inter…

10 years of leadership & empowerment for African women

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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors, and …

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 …

In a Child's Place: Centering Black Girlhood in Black Feminisms through the B…

This thesis examines the effects of misogynoir— a specific form of oppression Black women experience due to the intersection of being deemed inferior in both race and gender— on the developmen…

Examining Diffusion to Understand the How of SASA!, a Violence Against Women …

Background: A growing number of complex public health interventions combine mass media with communitybased “change agents” and/or mobilisation efforts acting at multiple levels. While impact e…

AWDF Convening & Launch of Southern Africa Office

On 7 of October 2010, the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) convened a meeting in Johannesburg bringing together women's organisations from across Southern Africa The occasion also mark…

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�…

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…

AWDF Grants Awarded Nigeria

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