Women Building Africa Annual Report 2003

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) has had another eventful and productive year. In this report, we describe our key activities and milestones for the year, and how these add up to a…

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 …

THE AFRICA WE WANT

Women's empowerment remains a key focus so as to eliminate all barriers that prevent women's access to information, technology, infrastructure, credit, employment, and markets.

Rethinking Rural–Urban Migration and Women’s Empowerment in the Era of th…

Women who migrate within national borders in Africa have been largely ignored in contemporary conversations about migration. This is partly due to the fact that internal migration, and in particula…

The Millennium Development Goals (MD Goal 3) Brochure

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The African Women's Right Regional Steering Group

This paper aims to provide the basis for further discussions with civil society formations in Africa around the post 2015 development framework as well as foreground an acceleration plan for the im…

The International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development I…

In March 2009, the first ever International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, Peace and Security took place in Monrovia, Liberia. Hosted by Her Excellency Ellen Johnson-Sir…

The Challenges of Underweight and Overweight in South African Children: Are W…

Underweight and overweight are adverse effects of malnutrition and both are associated with negative health consequences in children and adolescents. In South Africa, the burden of economic and soc…

The State of Civil Society Organisations' Sustainability in Ghana: Striving, …

This Report provides new insights about the sustainability of Civil Society (CS), and makes recommendations on what CS in Ghana must pay attention to if the sector is to remain valuable, and releva…

Understanding Variations in Health Insurance Coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeri…

Realisation of universal health coverage is not possible without health financing systems that ensure financial risk protection. To ensure this, some African countries have instituted health insura…