The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD) / Association des Femmes Africaines pour la Recherche et le Développement (AFARD) is an African feminist organization established in Dakar in December 1977.
[1] The "first intellectual feminist organization to denounce the living conditions of African women", AAWORD/AFARD "brought together female African intellectuals to promote equal rights between men and women at the continental level and contributed greatly to the advancement of the status of African women".
[2] AAWORD/AFARD was created after discussion between women scholars who met in Lusaka in Zambia in December 1976.
[3] In its early years, AAWORD was supported by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
[3] AAWORD sponsors regular conferences, and publishes occasional bilingual papers and bibliographies.