Rapid Response, Protection, and Advocacy & Alliance Building Grants

A pan-African feminist fund that moves money in days, not months, for unanticipated and time-urgent situations. Three windows: rapid response, protection/security, and advocacy and alliance building.

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)No grant ceiling is published on the fetched apply page; amounts appear on the individual downloadable application forms rather than the web page. Do not rely on the figures circulated by aggregator sites.

Timing

Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling. The page states applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and that funded actions must be implementable within roughly three months (advocacy grants 6-12 months).

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applications are assessed against five stated criteria: strategic, unanticipated, time-urgent, sustainable, and supported (endorsed by recognised women's rights actors locally or globally). Applicant-type rules are not stated on this page; forms are offered in English, Swahili, Arabic, Portuguese and French. A university's realistic route is as a documentation or accompaniment partner to an applicant group.

SSWR clusters

Topics

feminist movements · human rights defenders · crisis response · africa

Apply at

https://www.uaf-africa.org/apply-for-a-grant/

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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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Rapid Response, Protection, and Advocacy & Alliance Building Grants

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