The AWDF Main Grants Programme is pan-African and supports local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment

Contact:

The African Women’s Development Fund
Plot Number 78, AWDF House
Ambassadorial Enclave
East Legon, Accra, Ghana

Ph. +233 (0) 302 521257/+233 (0) 302 923626/+233 (0) 302 28 722006

Email:grants@awdf.org, awdf@awdf.org

The African-American Women in Computer Science (AAWCS) program provides financial support to women enrolled in the Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) department at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.

A*STAR strives to groom young and promising talent.  Awards are given to  local upper secondary and junior college students who demonstrate particularly strong aptitude and interest in math and science to spur their passion in scientific research and development.  Other awards and scholarships are given to undergraduates, graduates, and post graduate students

Institute of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.  Provides tuition award and financial assistances for degree programmes.

In a continent where women form a majority of the population and half of the workforce, it is an anomaly that the percentage of women working in technology is less than 15%. Technology is one of the key factors driving Africa’s projected economic rise. As such, there is enormous potential for maximizing the growth of technology through increasing the number and quality of women in technology. That is where Akirachix comes in.
AkiraChix aims to inspire and develop a successful force of women in Technology that will change Africa’s future. They plan to do this through their key programs areas of networking, mentorship and training.
The training program aims at giving these girls IT skills that would enable them sustain themselves. The inaugural set of students, who joined this program in August of 2010, recently graduated, on the 6th of August 2011, after a year of taking courses that ranged from basic computer packages, to programming and design concepts, as well as entrepreneurship and business development.
Started the AkiraChix Training program, teaching programming and web development skills to 29 young women. Recognized with the Unsung Heroes award by the US Embassy in Nairobi on International Women’s Day 2011.
Mobile Garage is a program funded by Infodev and to be implemented by Akirachix. The aim of the program is to create sustainable businesses for the knowledge economy through mobile applications for development, business incubation and technology entrepreneurship.
“We are intelligent and we bring all our energy together to help and inspire the greater community of ladies out there”.

The program seeks to provide tutoring to students from disadvantaged suburbs to help them get through the stages of higher education with the prospect of obtaining a higher education qualification and build a professional network.  As a participant in the Cercle program, Alcatel-Lucent is directly involved in the pursuit of greater cultural diversity and a broader social mix. It is a public / private partnership with a common objective : diversity.

The program involves young people mainly from 46 secondary schools and 40 universities in disadvantaged urban areas selected by the Ministry of National Education.  The objective is to help them get through the stages of higher education with the prospect of obtaining a higher education qualification in three curricula for excellence:

The leading university for telecoms engineers (ENST in Brittany, ISEP in Paris, etc.)
The leading university for general engineers (ENSEEIHT, ESIEE in Paris, etc.)
The leading university for business (Sciences Po, ESC in Rennes, etc.) 

Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

Contact:

http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=contact/contact

All-Siberia Student Olympiad started in 1962 and was designed to attract more high school students into sciences.   Today winners of the olympiad not only get a chance to compete with other students, but also get accepted into elite summer math and physics school and subsequently into Novosibirsky State University. The subject areas include math, computer science, chemistry, biology and physics.

AMORE-PACIFIC Awards and Fellowships.To honour women scientists and young female researchers.  Provision of awards and fellowships to increase the visibility of women scientists through publicizing their achievement.

The Korean Federation of Women's Science & Technology Associations (KOFWST) created the "AMOREPACIFIC Award for Outstanding Women in the Sciences," together with AMOREPACIFIC, to award women scientists with outstanding achievements in order to promote and develop scientific activities by women and make widely known their achievements, thereby encouraging future women scientists. This award, which is presented jointly by KOFWST and AMOREPACIFIC, amounts to a total of 75 million won. It has six categories - Grand Award(1 person), Science & Technology Award(2 persons), Young Scientist Award(2 persons), Science Promotion Award(1 person), Frontier Award(1 person), Most Promising Talent Award(2 persons) - and is presented to nine people. What is unique about the award is that its scope has been expanded to include application areas in addition to pure studies.

Each year SAWISE awards the Angus Scholarship, to a Sub-Saharan black woman graduate with 70% or above grade average in her subject of study. The scholarship is awarded for 1 year of tertiary study at Honours level (or 4th year level of study) in any field of science and engineering.

Contact:

Prof. Jacquie Greenberg
Jacquie.Greenberg@uct.ac.za