African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) 2023
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) invites applications to its three types of grants to choose from. The grant selection is in accordance to the area of work and goal of your application.
The types of African Women’s Development Fund grants are described below:
Open/Main grant:
This grant covers all areas of work that promotes the rights of women, girls and gender diverse persons’ rights.
Potential funding amount:
Depending on the applicant’s 2022 verified income, you can apply up to a maximum of USD100,000 per year for two years, making USD200,000 for two years;
Kasa! grant:
This is a grant specifically for Women’s Rights Organisations registered and working in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal working on sexual violence issues. The
Sexual Violence Research Initiative defines sexual violence here.
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Potential funding amount:
This grant is for not more than USD30,000 per year for two years, making USD60,000 for two years.
Economic Justice grant:
Community organisers, community-based organisations,
women’s rights organisations and feminist networks that are working with local communities doing economic justice work to identify and dismantle the barriers to economic justice and equality for African women are eligible to apply.
Potential funding amount:
This grant will not provide funding for income generating projects. This grant type is for small grants
of no more than US$9000.
African Women’s Development Fund wants to support a diverse range of organisations. If you apply for an Open grant, you can
also apply for a Kasa! grant. However, if you wish to apply for a grant under the “Economic Justice” theme, we can only consider one application (so you can’t apply for an “economic justice” and Kasa! or open grant)
Who can apply for the African Women’s Development Fund?
Eligibility Criteria
In this call for proposals, AWDF will only consider applications for organisations that are based
and headquartered in Africa and/or organisations that are led by African women (senior staff and Board)
AWDF will only consider applications from organisations where the Director of the organisation and Chair of the Board identify as female or non-binary and where a majority, (at least 70%), of all staff identify as female or non-binary.
AWDF generally only accept applications from organisations that have been registered for at
least three years. In extremely rare circumstances however, AWDF will consider applications from
organisations that have been registered for less than three years. Some examples are organisations led by and focused on particularly marginalised groups of women and girls, including women and girls living with disabilities, LBTQI+ women and girls, sex workers, refugees and migrant women, women living with HIV/AIDS, young feminists and other imposed marginalities.
AWDF does not fund profit making entities or organisations
Current and/or previously AWDF funded organisations
AWDF does consider applications from community-based organisations (CBOs) if they meet all our eligibility criteria
If you have a current AWDF grant and it ends before 31st July 2023, you can submit an application. If your current grant ends after 31st July 2023, you can only submit an application for the Kasa! grant (assuming you
don’t have an existing Kasa! grant) or the Economic Justice grant.
If your organisation has previously had a grant and/or has a current grant from AWDF and the previous grant from AWDF has ended and there are no outstanding contractual obligations, you can apply.
If you have a live grant that ends before 31st July 2023, you can apply.
If you have a current grant that ends after 31st July 2023, you are not able to apply to this open grant call for
proposals but will be eligible for our second call for proposals in 2023, which is expected to launch
around the end of July 2023.
Organisations that were previously funded under LFS, a
Kasa grant, or funded under one thematic area, can still apply for one of any of the types of grant as long as they meet the eligible criteria (women led, proportion of previous annual income, geographical coverage etc.
AWDF welcomes applications that are for work delivered by more than one partner organisation as long as the application is from one partner and and all the named partners meet all the eligibility criteria, etc. If you are submitting an application for a consortium project or more than two
organisations, AWDF will consider the eligibility and income of only the applicant organisation and not
the combined income of all the proposed partners. AWDF also accepts applications from
organisations that are not working with partners.
AWDF will consider multi country applications as long as the rationale for working across more than
one country is clear and strategic with well-defined and measurable impact in each country.
For data security reasons, AWDF recommends that each organisation have only one profile for the organisation on the on-line platform.
Applications deadline:
25th April 2023.
AWDF Application Process
If you are interested in applying, please read the Applicant Guidance Document. It contains essential information to help you through the process.
If, after reading the applicant guidance document, you are interested in hearing more about the AWDF application process and would like to join one of our potential applicant Webinars, please register here. The English applicants’ webinar will be held on Monday the 3rd of April 2023 at 10.00am GMT, and the French applicants’ webinar will be held on Tuesday 4th April at 10.00am GMT.
To apply for any of the above grants, please complete the application process online, here.
If your application is considered ineligible, you will be notified by the end of May 2023. If your application is not shortlisted
for assessment, we will notify you by the end of June 2023. Applications submitted to the April 25th
2023 deadline grant making cycle will be considered by the AWDF Board in July 2023, with all successful and unsuccessful applicants receiving notification by the end of August 2023.
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is now open for applications. Good luck, we wish you success.
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