Rapid Response Grants and Enabling Defenders Grants

Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific (UAF A&P)

Grants of up to USD 5,000 to women and non-binary human rights defenders and their movements across Asia and the Pacific, accepted in any language, any day of the year, with a response in 72 hours.

Indicative award

up to $5k (total award)Page states grants reach up to USD 5,000 per application. No published minimum.

Timing

Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Open 365 days a year with no cycles. Applicants receive a response within 72 hours; approved grants are delivered in 10-15 days.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Open to women and non-binary human rights defenders, activists and their movements in Asia and the Pacific. The fund explicitly supports individuals as well as organisations, so an activist-scholar can be the applicant; a university as institution is not the intended grantee. Applications accepted in any language.

SSWR clusters

Topics

human rights defenders · security and protection · feminist activism · asia-pacific

Apply at

https://www.uafanp.org/what-we-do

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

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Rapid Response Grants and Enabling Defenders Grants

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