Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific — Rapid Response Grants
Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific
A feminist rapid-response fund for women and non-binary activists and organisations under threat across Asia and the Pacific. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis rather than against deadlines, and the fund also runs strategic support for defender communities alongside the emergency window. For research-adjacent work the relevant uses are security, relocation, urgent documentation of violations and protecting the people and records a longer evidence project depends on — the kind of cost no conventional research grant will move fast enough to cover.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant ceiling or range is published on the homepage; the site refers applicants to its grants section and FAQs and to grants@uafanp.org for financial parameters.
- 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 fund states applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no fixed deadlines, which is the point of a rapid-response mechanism.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a woman or non-binary activist, or an organisation of them, facing a threat or time-sensitive opportunity in Asia or the Pacific. The fund publishes a Grants Eligibility Assessment tool and an application portal at apply.uafanp.org. A university cannot be the applicant; a social work researcher's route is to support an eligible activist or organisation who applies in their own name.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- women human rights defenders · rapid response · asia and pacific · activist security
- Apply at
- https://www.uafanp.org/
- This entry
- 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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