The African Women's Development Fund
...for African women to live in a world in which there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights.
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New Report: Mapping of Feminist Movements and Actors in Portuguese Speaking African Countries
Historically, feminist organising in Portuguese-speaking Africa has operated at the edge of global and regional feminist conversation, largely attributed to linguistic isolation, postcolonial authoritarianism, and funding systems that were never built with these movements in…
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Recruitment of Trainers for Online Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Trainings – Extended to 16 October 2026
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is strengthening its institutional readiness and capacity to engage effectively with humanitarian funding and support feminist and women’s rights organisations responding to crises across Africa. Women’s rights and feminist…
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Beyond translation: Reimagining Feminist Funding for Portuguese Speaking Africa
Articles courtesy of AfricanFeminism “Portuguese-speaking Africa is not on the margins of Africa’s feminist movement. It is an essential part of it.” Across Africa, feminist movements have long challenged systems of inequality, responded to crises, created new possibilities for…
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Feminist Accounting – Cedrick Sokou – Administrative and Financial Director, Côte d’Ivoire
It’s not every day you come across a feminist accountant; in fact, it is a rare occurrence yet for Cedrick Sokou, issues of budgeting, transparency and justifying expenditure are political matters. “Being an activist is all about deconstructing,” he asserts. From what he’d…
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Voices of our Movements: Amplifying African Feminist Voices, Stories and Knowledge
“…no, no, but that is the thing. Nobody told us it was allowed to be this loud.” “Okay, say that again. Say that again, because I want it on the recording.” “Fine. Nobody told us our stories were allowed to be this loud, this funny, this angry and this tender, all in the same…
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You choose – Davila Tano – Trans feminist activist, Côte d’Ivoire
When the crisis erupted at QET inclusion, the organisation where she was Executive Director, Davila Tano felt as though everything was crumbling: her work, her activism, her leadership, and even her place within the community she had been supporting for several years. “I felt…
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Financing the Storm: Why Philanthropy Must Adapt to the Reality of Resistance
By: Lola M. Silva Philanthropy is an industry designed for an imagined world of quiet weather. It operates on the comforting assumption of stability, wrapping itself in the neat geometries of the planning cycle: the pristine project proposal, the static metric, and the corporate…
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Collective Power in Action: The African Women’s Development Fund on Feminist Funding, Solidarity, and Movement Building
Courtesy of Prospera As Prospera marks 25 years of collective action, Resourcing Power Together highlights the experiences, lessons, and leadership of women’s and feminist funds across our network. In this conversation, Prospera spoke with Françoise Moudouthe, former Prospera…
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AWDF welcomes new Director of Partnerships and Voice
Our team is excited to welcome Irene Mwendwa, as our new Director of Partnerships and Voice. Irene is a lawyer committed to building the partnerships, institutions, and collective power needed to advance African women’s leadership and solidarity. She has a particular interest in…
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Call for evaluation consultants for No to Backlash: Supporting the Collective Resistance of Feminist and Women’s Movements in Africa
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Urgent Action Fund – Africa (UAF-Africa), and Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaise (FFC) seek an external, independent, and diverse African feminist evaluation consultancy team to conduct a final programme evaluation of its work carried…