Deadline: November 25, 2025
The International Renaissance Foundation, with support from Norad and Sida, has opened a Small Grants competition to strengthen civil society’s role in Ukraine’s recovery and resilience efforts.
The program is part of the broader “Impulse: Empowering Civil Society for Resilience and Recovery” initiative and is designed to support organizations working at the local and regional levels to rebuild communities, promote inclusive decision-making, and protect the rights and well-being of vulnerable groups.
The grants will enable organizations to participate in local recovery planning, advocate for transparency and accountability, and expand community-level initiatives that respond to the social, economic, and psychological challenges created by conflict. The support offered goes beyond funding, with successful organizations also receiving development assistance, mentoring, and opportunities to strengthen their internal capacities and networks.
The optimal budget for each project ranges from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 Ukrainian hryvnias, with a project duration of up to 12 months. This scale is intended to allow organizations to implement meaningful, impactful initiatives while also supporting long-term sustainability of their activities.
Eligible applicants include public organizations, charitable foundations, public unions, and neighborhood self-organization bodies that actively contribute to community recovery and directly engage groups such as veterans, internally displaced persons, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable residents. Organizations must be registered in one of the following regions: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, or Chernihiv. Groups that were registered in these regions before or after the full-scale invasion are eligible, provided they have been officially registered for at least one year.
Organizations that were forced to relocate due to occupation or active hostilities may still apply if they remain engaged in the recovery of their original communities. Team members must be physically located in Ukraine and able to participate in the program’s development and learning components in person.
This funding competition provides an important opportunity for civil society organizations to play a leading role in shaping Ukraine’s recovery, ensuring that rebuilding efforts are inclusive, community-driven, and rooted in dignity and resilience.
For more information, visit IRF.
