2018 African Women’s Development Fund program

AWDF is one of four Women’s Funds from the Global South managing the Leading from

the South Fund- a funding initiative created to resource women’s rights activism in the

global South over 4 years, initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It supports

activism devised, implemented, and led by women’s rights organisations in the global

South. The LFS fund is being implemented by four women’s funds: Three are Regional

Funds: African Women’s Development Fund (Africa and the Middle East Region),Fondo Mujeres del Sur (Latin America and the Caribbean)and South Asia Women Fund (Asia);and one global fund AYNI – the Indigenous Women’s Fund.

AWDF accepts applications from women’s rights organisations registered and working in DAC recipient countries in Africa and the Middle East (see country list in section II).

• AWDF funds women-led, women’s organisations as a priority. Organisations must have:

• a track record of work on women’s rights,

• a woman as organisational director/lead

• a majority (at least 70%) of women staff

• at least 70% women involved in the governing board/body

• a stated commitment to women’s rights/gender equality in the organisational mission/vision/values

• At least 70% of programmatic resources must be dedicated to direct programming on women’s rights;

Eligible activities

Activities to be considered for funding include:

• Campaigns to advance specific women’s rights agendas, law and policy change

• Training to build core advocacy/social change skills

• Media and communications campaigns

• Action-research and knowledge production with an advocacy focus

• Alliance and movement-building

• Strategic litigation

• Engaging the regional/international human rights system and international treaty bodies

• Interventions to change public attitudes on key policy issues

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE & LANGUAGE:

Applications are accepted for women’s groups registered in the following countries in

Africa and the Middle East:

Africa:

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde,

Central Africa, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo,

Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,

Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,

Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao

Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland,

Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Middle East:

Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen

Grant Type