The year 2000 review of the impact of the 4th United Nations World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) revealed that there are still considerable obstacles in the way of achieving worldwide equality…
AWDF awards grants to African women's organizations working in the following thematic areas: Women's Human Rights Economic Empowerment Political Participation Peace-Building Healt…
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…
Grantee organisations
Over the past ten years at least 2 million Africans have lost their lives in wars and genocide. Many more have become refugees. These conflicts have placed a tremendous burden on women who suffe…
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…