Leading From The South — Asia window (Women's Fund Asia)

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

The Asia window of Leading From The South, a Global-South-led consortium fund in which Southern women's funds — not Northern intermediaries — make the grant decisions. Women's Fund Asia awards multi-year grants in three tiers to organisations and networks led by women, girls, trans and intersex people working on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate justice and economic justice. The tiers reach from community-level frontline work through national advocacy to regional agenda-setting, and the multi-year form is long enough to carry evaluation and evidence-buil

Indicative award

Amount not published (total award)Amounts are published in euros, so the numeric fields are left null rather than silently converted. The page gives three tiers over 2–3 years: Frontline Defenders up to EUR 48,600; Amplifying Voices up to EUR 206,600; Promoting a Regional Feminist Agenda up to EUR 446,800.

Timing

Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Grants are multi-year (2–3 years) and awarded through consortium calls. No current deadline or cycle date is published on the programme page; the fund directs enquiries to grants@wf-asia.org.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applicant must be an organisation or network led by women, girls, trans or intersex people, working on gender justice in one of the 22 countries and territories Women's Fund Asia covers in South, Southeast and East Asia. This is a movement fund — a university is not the applicant; a social work researcher would join as a partner or evaluator on a grant held by an eligible Asian women's rights organisation. The published pages do not state whether legal registration is required.

SSWR clusters

Topics

gender justice · south and southeast asia · gbv · climate justice · economic justice

Apply at

https://www.womensfundasia.org/leading-from-the-south/

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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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Leading From The South — Asia window (Women's Fund Asia)

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