{"id":13334,"date":"2011-06-03T02:11:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=13334"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:56:19","slug":"african-womens-development-fund-awdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=13334","title":{"rendered":"African Women&#039;s Development Fund AWDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women\u2019s empowerment. Through institutional capacity building and programme development, AWDF seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women\u2019s movement &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/our-work\">full text Our Work<\/a> \/click on <em>readmore<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_Women%27s_Development_Fund\">AWDF on en.wikipedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/\">Homepage<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/our-community\">Our Community<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/awdf-usa\">AWDF USA<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/the-process\">Process<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/downloads\">Resources, Downloads<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/awdf-usa\">Thematic focus<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/awdf-news\">News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/awdfs-blog\">Blog<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/awdf-gallery\">Gallery<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/faqs\">FAQs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/support-us\">Support Us<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddresses (1 od 2): AWDF, Plot Number 78, AWDF House, Ambassadorial Enclave, East Legon, Accra, Ghana;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/contacts\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/our-work\/about\">About AWDF<\/a>: The African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women\u2019s empowerment. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Through institutional capacity building and programme development, AWDF seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n<p>The vision of AWDF is for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women\u2019s human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilise financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women, which will lead to the achievement of this vision.<\/p>\n<p>AWDF, the first Africa-wide grant-making fund, was established in June 2000 by three African women who have been active in various institutions within and outside Africa. The founders, Ms Joanna Foster (Ghana) Dr Hilda Tadria (Uganda) and Ms Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (UK\/Nigeria), have a track record of successful empowerment interventions, which have helped strengthen the African Women\u2019s Movement.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of AWDF are fundraising within and outside Africa, grant-making on an Africa-wide basis, communicating the work and achievements of African women\u2019s organisations and providing technical assistance to grantees<\/p>\n<p>AWDF\u2019s grants range from U$1,000- U$50,000, and multi-year grants of up to $120,000 can be made to grantees engaged in strategic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organisations in Africa working towards women\u2019s empowerment. Through institutional capacity building and programme development, AWDF seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women\u2019s movement &#8230; (full text Our Work \/click on readmore). AWDF on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=13334\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;African Women&#039;s Development Fund AWDF&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}