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AFRICAN WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT FUND - The newly established African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is a
fundraising and grant-making fund which aims to support the work of the African women's movement. The beneficiaries of the fund will be local, national and regional African women's organisations. The AWDF will raise money and make grants for the support of non-profit African women's organisations working for social justice, equity and peace. The beneficiaries of the fund will be African women's organisations working in the following areas: - women's human rights; - economic empowerment; - political empowerment;
- feminist leadership development. The AWDF will also support programme work to strengthen existing initiatives in the areas of research, public policy debates and analyses, organisational development and capacity building. For further information, contact: Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Executive Director, Akina Mama wa Afrika, 334-336 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7LQ, UK. Tel: +44
(0)20 7713 5166; Fax: +44 (0)20 7713 1959; Email: bisi90@hotmail.com or Joanna Foster: jfoster@samara.org.za