The Urgent Action Fund for Women Human Rights Defenders

Deadline: Ongoing

The Urgent Action Fund for women’s human rights, a global women’s fund to protect, strengthen and sustain women and transgender human rights defenders at critical moment, accepts grant applications for immediate support to women/transgender human rights defenders under its Rapid Response grant. These are the funding tool used to support interventions by activists in a strategic and timely manner.

Categories

1. Potentially precedent-setting legal or legislative actions, or actions that aim to protect a precedent that has already been set.
2. Protection and security of women human rights defenders – the Evacuation grants fall under this category.

Areas of Work

• Peace building
• Environmental Justice
• Land Rights
• Sex Worker Rights
• LGBTQ Rights
• Reproductive Rights
• and Other Issues

The activists applying for the Rapid Response Grant will receive response within 72 hours and funds disseminated within a week. Grant request up to $5,000 are considered for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• Grant proposals must be for the action that promotes the advancement of women’s human rights.
• The specific event or situation the applicant’s organization is responding to should be unanticipated and action must happen quickly to be effective.
• The applying group must have the support of others involved in women’s human rights or related fields, locally or globally.
• Women/transgender people must be the primary decision-makers in the organization, group, or action.
• Applications can be submitted in any language and any time of the year.

Are you from Africa? Apply for Urgent Action Fund-Africa.

Do you belong to Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean? Apply for Urgent Action Fund-Latin America.

For more information, please visit Apply for a Grant.