Strengthening gender research to improve Girls' and Women's education in Africa

As gender equality and women's empowerment are key to development efforts, research that seeks to influence these efforts must necessarily be gender sensitive and must shed light on the realities,c…

AWDF Convening & Launch Of Southern Africa Office

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Women Organising in Ghana: The Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT) and NG…

Ghanaian women’s agitations for economic justice have been a marked feature of their activism since pre-independence nationalist struggles, including the trade blockades of 1917 and 1918. Marke…

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…

Gender and Security in Africa

Women face different forms of insecurity on a daily basis across the African continent. These are informed by the nature of women's labor, work environment, sexual orientation and failure in servic…

“I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of…

Although being an African, a sex worker and a feminist are often considered to be incongruent identities, in certain embodiments they intersect and inform each other. This Profile highlights what…

End of Project Evaluation for the African Women's Development Fund: Comic rel…

An end of project evaluation was conducted for AWDF between July and August 2014. The evaluation was specifically focused on the performance of AWDF's Phase II Project which was part of Comic Reli…

Strengthening gender research to improve girls' and women education in Africa

This publication is to generate reliable, up-to-date qualitative and quantitative data on gender in Africa education to inform policy and practice in Sub-Saharan and many more.

Consolidating the gains of African Women, 2007 - 2008 Annual Report

It is AWDF's goal to ensure that it remains financially sustainable so that it can continue to support women in Africa

Who Counts? An Inclusive Vision for Ending Gender-based Violence

This report focuses on how organisations define and redefine violence by expanding commonplace understandings of what violence is and who experiences it. The report also identifies effective strate…