Association for Women's Rights in Development

Association for Women's Rights in Development
TypeNon-profit
NGO
PurposeAWID's mission is to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women's rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally to effectively advance the rights of women.
Location
Key people
Hakima Abbas, Cindy Clark (Co-Executive Directors), Margo Okazawa-Rey (President)
Websitewww.awid.org

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), formerly the Association for Women in Development, is an international feminist membership and movement support organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. It was established in 1982 as a U.S.-based association originally focused on promoting dialogue on women in development issues among academics, policy makers and development professionals,[1] a scope that has since broadened. Among the prominent people who were involved with AWID from the 1980s were pioneering feminist economist Marilyn Waring. AWID stands for a progressive intersectional feminism and has a broad and inclusive human rights focus, working for marginalized genders and other groups. It coordinates the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaborative project with over 20 other NGOs including Planned Parenthood, that aims "to monitor, analyse, share information and do collaborative advocacy on [...] anti-rights initiatives threatening international and regional human rights systems" from a feminist perspective.

The co-executive directors are Faye Macheke, a Pan-African feminist, and Inna Michaeli, a feminist queer activist and sociologist.[2] AWID is funded by UN Women, various government development agencies and a number of progressive donors, including Open Society Foundations, MacKenzie Scott and the Sigrid Rausing Trust.

  1. ^ Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. "Association for Women's Rights in Development". Georgetown University. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. ^ "Our Board of Directors". AWID. Retrieved 6 May 2022.