AWDF Grants (Call for Proposals)

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

AWDF is a pan-African feminist fund based in Accra that resources women's rights and feminist organisations, collectives and movement actors across Africa, with deliberate emphasis on groups historically excluded from funding — nascent and grassroots organisations, unregistered groups and movements that mainstream donors treat as too risky. Its last cycle offered five distinct grant types aimed at those actors. Grants can carry organisational strengthening, knowledge production and learning/networking work, so a community organisation partnered with a social work researcher can use AWDF money

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)No grant sizes are published on the AWDF grants or resourcing pages. AWDF states only that its grantmaking is flexible and supports both established and small locally based women's organisations across five grant types. No figure recorded because none is stated.

Timing

Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.AWDF runs periodic calls for proposals rather than rolling intake. As of this check the call is closed; the page says results of the last round would be communicated to applicants. No future deadline is published — AWDF directs enquiries to grants@awdf.org or +233 242700881.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applicant must be a women-led and women-managed organisation working in Africa; national or regional civil society groups qualify only if women hold governance roles and a senior woman manages the project. AWDF's resourcing page states organisations should generally be at least three years old with basic systems and structures. Explicitly ineligible: individual women or families, government departments, political parties and their women's wings, religious-conversion organisations, academic scholarships and fellowships, and organisations not led by women. A university cannot be the applicant —

SSWR clusters

Topics

african feminist movements · women's rights organisations · grassroots and unregistered groups · movement building · organisational strengthening

Apply at

https://awdf.org/grants

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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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AWDF Grants (Call for Proposals)

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