The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a feminist non-governmental organization that operates throughout Africa and the Middle East.

The AWDF’s purpose is to secure funding from different types of donors to create grants, which are then used to support a variety of feminist causes and organizations throughout the region.

Ten years earlier, Dr. Tadria had founded an NGO called Action for Development, which supported women's issues, therefore she knew what it took to run a nonprofit organization.

In 1991, she had become the director of Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), a UK based organization dedicated to serving women in Africa, and maintained her position there until 2001.

[13] In 2014, the African Women’s Development Fund received a grant of $500,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to help tackle the Ebola crisis.