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African Women's Development Fund - The Legacy Fund

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The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a foundation supporting the work of the African Women’s Movement through grant-making and technical assistance. The vision of the AWDF is for African women to live in a changed world in which transformed women can live with integrity and in peace. To realise this vision, the mission is to mobilise financial, human, and material resources to support local, national, and international initiatives for transformation led by African women. The Legacy Fund is a project of AWDF established in order to create an additional source of funding for current or potential AWDF grantees to enable them immortalise the contributions of outstanding African women to the development of their communities.

The objectives of the Legacy Fund are to:

  1. support initiatives that will document the contributions of feminist activists, scholars, and practitioners for posterity.
  2. promote and safeguard the legacies of African women who have been active in the women’s movement, whether they have passed away or are still alive.
  3. give women’s rights activists voice and visibility at local, national, regional, and international levels.
  4. provide African philanthropists with an opportunity to make contributions in the name of a woman who has touched their lives.
  5. create a knowledge base for young African women.

 

 

This special fund within AWDF will enable African women’s organisations to document the lives of African women through documentaries, films, photographs, memorial lectures, books, and monographs. The intention is to provide a forum to make up for what the AWDF sees as a lack of mechanisms to document the experiences and contributions of African women who have committed their lives to the women’s movement and to democratic values and struggles in their countries. Other long-lasting initiatives such as contributions to scholarship funds for young girls and support for building projects can also be considered.

Size of grants:
Organisations can apply for grants up to US$30,000.

Application Info

Click here for more information on the application process and to access the grant application form in MS Word format.

Source

AWDF website, November 30 2010.