The latest round-up of funding opportunities to support your work to end child marriage and promote girls' rights.
Global
UNDP: Tadamon Accelerator Program for CSOs | 9 May
The Tadamon Accelerator aims to transform the way CSOs work and approach existing development challenges, promoting a new innovative mindset and introducing problem-solving methodologies.
SAGE FUND Human Rights Funding | 16 May
Inviting concept notes from organizations and movements primarily in the Global South piloting efforts and building cross-movement capacity to hold economic actors accountable to human rights.
Feminist Civil Society and Young Feminist Activist Education Coalition | 18 May
The UNGEI partnership is convening a trailblazing coalition of 21 national and grassroots, feminist CSOs and young activists working to advance gender equality in and through education.
USAID PROPEL Adapt (Round 2) Programme | 20 May
This programme focuses on strengthening the enabling environment for family planning and reproductive health and its integration with HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health.
2022 UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education | 20 May
The Prize honours outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions, and organisations to improve and promote the educational prospects of girls and women.
iF Social Impact Prize | 26 May
The prize supports projects that contribute to improving our society. If you work towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, your project is eligible. Applying is free of charge.
Crisis and post-crisis call for projects | 30 May
AFD proposes to subsidize CSOs for the establishment of a mechanism for financing, strengthening and structuring feminist organisations whose main objective is equality between women and men.
Young Global Leaders Class of 2023 | 31 May
The opportunity aims to accelerate the impact of a diverse community of responsible leaders across borders and sectors to shape a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Child Health Foundation (CHF) | 31 May
Accepting proposals for innovative research or innovative service projects directed at improving the health and well-being of new-born infants during their first year of life.
Global Centre for Pluralism – 2023 Global Pluralism Award | 31 May
The Award recognises and supports entities that are tackling the challenge of living peacefully and productively with diversity.
UNDP Digital X | 31 May
Digital X is a Partnerships for Scale Programme developed by UNDP Chief Digital Office to find, match, and scale proven and innovative digital solutions around the world.
End Violence Against Children’s 2022 Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund | 31 May
Research projects which deliver actionable insights that contribute to practitioner understanding of online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CESA), with a priority on technology industry practice.
Maternal & Infant Health Award | 2 June
The objective is to improve and accelerate equitable maternal and infant health outcomes around the world by funding transformative community-led solutions.
Support Fund for Feminist Organizations | 27 June
The Agence Française de Développement is offering grants to strengthen feminist CSOs working for gender equality in and through education. Open to countries in several continents.
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation | 1 July
The foundation helps build the capacity of organisations and coalitions with grants that support research or improve the learning and generation of local solutions to complex problems.
The SVRI Research Grant 2023 | 19 July
Inviting applications for innovative research and interventions that will contribute to the prevention and response of violence against women and children in low and middle-income countries.
Disability Rights Fund - Round 2 | 15 August
Supports persons with disabilities to build diverse movements and achieve equal opportunity and rights for all. Opens on July 15 in Haiti, Nepal, the Pacific Island Countries, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Global Youth Mobilization Local Solutions Fund | Ongoing
Global Youth Mobilization is a movement of young people taking action to improve their lives now and in a post-COVID-19 world. Any young person between the ages of 14 – 30 can apply.
Abilis Foundation | Ongoing
They fund projects that are planned and implemented by persons with disabilities to advance their human rights and participation, with a focus on women and girls with disabilities in Africa and Asia.
Air France Foundation | Ongoing
The Foundation supports long-term projects for children and young people in the fields of formal and informal education, access to sport, culture and leisure, and environmental education.
Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program | Ongoing
The program is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Open Society Foundations Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) | Ongoing
Aims to support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organisations and individuals in the region and to strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable.
Frontline AIDS Rapid Response Fund | Ongoing
Grants of up to $15,000 USD are available to organisations led by and serving marginalised communities affected by HIV to respond to external threats to their HIV-related human rights work.
Wallace Global Fund | Ongoing
The Fund supports organisations working promote democracy, human rights, public health and a sustainable planet. Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support.
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation | Ongoing
The foundation helps strengthen the capacity of organisations and coalitions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Their focus areas include family planning and reproductive health.
Global Fund for Women | Ongoing
Their grantmaking centres historically marginalised communities and those most impacted by gender injustice. All organisations must submit an organisational profile online.
Kanthari fellowship | Ongoing
Kanthari's twelve-month programme will help participants develop all necessary skills to succeed as social change-makers so they can start and run own NGO's, social enterprises or social ventures.
The Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund Short-Term Grants | Ongoing
Short-term grants to implement urgent projects that address diverse barriers to women’s meaningful participation in a formal peace process or implementation of a peace agreement.
Close the Gap | Ongoing
Close the Gap provides high-quality refurbished IT equipment for social and educational projects in low- and middle-income countries all around the world (mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa).
With and For Girls Fund | Ongoing
Girls groups and collectives, including those working in partnership with young women under 30, are invited to submit their profile for funding opportunities and to connect with other girl activists.
DWF Foundation | Ongoing
The DWF Foundation supports registered NGOs working on homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education and environment and sustainability. Only select countries can apply.
Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) | Ongoing
FID is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. It specifically encourages applications from the priority countries for French aid.
Africa
OSF-Africa | 13 May
Supporting innovative interventions with effective strategies that respond to the broader deep-seated political, justice and socio-economic roadblocks to open society in Africa.
The Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Fund (SSH) - Tanzania | 16 May
Provides small scale support to registered community groups, women’s groups, self-help groups, youth groups and some schools for projects that improve living conditions in their communities.
WACSI’s Research Fellowship in West Africa | 16 May
WACSI is inviting applications for a research fellowship to promote knowledge production on civil society. this is an action-oriented initiative targeted at young researchers.
Grants to Support CSOs & CBOs in Malawi | 20 May
This grant selection process aims to identify CSO/CBOs to engage communities to provide support on access to justice services through the provision of mobile courts.
United Nations Grants for civil society and NGOs | 20 May
OHCHR supports projects of civil society and non-government organizations that aim at promoting and protecting the human rights of people of African descent through the IDPAD grant scheme.
Seed Grants for Small Grassroots Organisations | 31 May
The Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is providing seed grants to grassroots organisations to implement women-led, income-generating projects in Sierra Leone, Kenya, and south India.
Assessing Social Science Research Systems in Francophone Africa | 31 May
The Global Development Network is inviting multidisciplinary research teams based in French-speaking Africa to act as national correspondents of the Doing Research programme.
Mentally Mindful Uganda | 31 May
Voice Uganda is looking for inclusive and bold ideas around innovative integration of mental health into programme, policy, and practice. Funding available is between 50,000-200,000 Euros.
Spring Up Uganda| 31 May
This grant is meant for (informal) groups or organisations to build and enhance their capacity of lobby and advocacy. Funding available is up to €25,000 for a period between 12-18 months.
2022 Call for Proposals: Civil Society Organisations in Uganda | 31 May
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals for CSOs. Prevention and response to teenage pregnancies and youth’s empowerment and participation are amongst the main themes.
US Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire: Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program | 31 May
Priority themes include encouraging active participation of women and youth and promoting economic empowerment through entrepreneurship.
2022 Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Awards | 3 June
The Awards aim to recognise, honour, and celebrate women entrepreneurs in Africa and across various industry sectors, for their contribution to Africa’s inclusive growth and social development.
Grants to Strengthen Youth Organisations in Zimbabwe | 21 June
The European Commission is inviting proposals to strengthen local Civil Society Organisations engagement as actors of good governance and development at the country level.
US Embassy Kenya | 30 June
Awards to a maximum of $50,000. Priorities include promoting equal access and participation of women and girls in educational opportunities, civil society, and economic activity.
US Embassy Niamey: Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program | 30 June
All public diplomacy Small Grants Programs must include themes such as women’s empowerment, youth engagement, education, or economic development among others.
Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother” 2022 | 30 July
For journalists raising awareness about social issues such as breaking infertility stigma, support girls’ education, ending child marriage, FGM and GBV, and women empowerment at all levels.
2022 Context Matters Research Grants Program | 1 August
The program funds research designed and undertaken by African researchers. Key aspects are building scholars’ research capacity, promoting knowledge sharing, and informing praxis and policy.
Burkina Faso: Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program | 30 September
Priority areas include women’s empowerment, youth development, social entrepreneurship, adaptive technologies, rural economic development, and economic diversification.
Rapid Response Funding for Women in South Africa | Ongoing
This funding has a special emphasis on mitigating the effect of COVID on women’s rights. Amounts range from R20,000 to R50,000. Grants are available for a period of three months to one year.
Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa | Ongoing
The initiative aims to support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organisations and individuals in the region and to strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable.
Firelight | Ongoing
Firelight supports organisations that are working with their own communities to build potentially scalable solutions to the challenges faced by children and youth in eastern and southern Africa.
Noel Buxton Trust Grant | Ongoing
Trustees tend to offer grants to smaller, grass-roots organisations with a focus on economic development. Priority countries are Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan.
US Embassy in Chad | Ongoing
The grants help organisations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs.
Techsoup West Africa | Ongoing
Techsoup West Africa offers non-profits in ECOWAS countries as well as Cameroon and Tchad access to technology products up to 95% less than the market value or free of charge.
The Beit Trust | Ongoing
Supporting established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centres. Grants are distributed between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Asia
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Assistance for Grassroots Projects - India | September 2022
The Embassy of Japan in India is offering grants for grassroots projects under several priority areas, including women's empowerment, primary education, child welfare and poverty alleviation.
Share and Care Foundation Grant Program in India | Ongoing
The Grant Program is now open to create opportunities for women and children of India with low income by partnering with communities, philanthropists and local charitable organisations.
Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific | Ongoing
A rapid response and feminist fund that mobilises and distributes resources to women and non-binary human rights defenders, activists and their movements in the region to continue their work.
India Open Grants Fund | Ongoing
This fund assists NGOs to design and develop programmes which assist at-risk communities to build on their strengths and help them deal with the critical factors that make them vulnerable.
Europe, MENA and North America
The European Commission (EC) | 18 May
Currently accepting proposals with the aim of supporting, advancing, and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child.
Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan | 30 May
Thematic priorities include gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, economic growth (including women's economic rights), and peace and security.
The Fat Beehive Foundation | 30 June
Small grants of up to £2,500 for websites and digital products to other small UK registered charities. Registered charities with annual income of under £1m may apply.
British and Foreign School Society | 13 July
The BFSS supports organisations running projects in the UK and internationally to improve access to education or the quality of education for vulnerable or deprived children and young people.
Return to Play Fund (RTPF) - United States | Ongoing
RTPF will support community sport organisations that are dedicated to getting young people of colour moving again and providing them with guidance and opportunities to grow and succeed.
Doria Feminist Fund | Ongoing
The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding and resources.
Women’s Empowerment International | Ongoing
WEI accepts letters of inquiry for women-focused poverty-alleviation projects on an ongoing basis. Funding partners must be US 501(c)(3) non-profit organisations.
Latin America and the Caribbean
European Commission proposals in Jamaica and Belize | 10 June
Inviting proposals to strengthen local civil society organisations’ engagement as actors of good governance and development at country level.
Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program in Guatemala | 26 August
Priority will be given to the themes of climate change and environmental sustainability, empowerment of women and girls, especially from indigenous communities, and media freedom.
The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing
The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children and young people.
Urgent Action Fund Latin America | Ongoing
A regional feminist fund for Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, with quick and agile support.
Wishing you good luck with your fundraising efforts!
In solidarity,
Macarena
Macarena Espinar López
Member Engagement Officer
Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
