Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Doria Feminist Fund Program 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.
They work to make sure that both new and established feminist groups in the MENA region have access to more and better funding to continue and develop their work, articulate their own priorities and produce local knowledge.
Types of Grants
- Doria Feminist Fund supports new and emerging feminist groups, collectives, and individuals with flexible funding in three main areas: Core, Flexible Grants, Knowledge Production Grants, and Collaborative Project Grants. Doria grants are open to any feminist group or collective in the MENA region, however, Doria will prioritize applications from groups that have not received funding or financial support in the past.
- Core, Flexible Grant: Groups may apply for core grants through Doria Fund. Core grants are flexible funds that groups may use to sustain the general operations of their group’s activities. Core, Flexible Grants are tailored to enable groups to lead decision-making for how their funding is used to support their operations. Core, flexible grants may be used for office rent, equipment/supplies, salaries, project activities, capacity building, and more.
- Knowledge Production Grant: Groups, collectives, and individuals may apply for Knowledge Production Grants as part of Doria Fund’s commitment to fostering unique narratives of the feminist movement in the MENA region by and for feminists in the region. Working within the Creative Commons framework, content produced through the grant will be shared publicly, and accessible to the public, while remaining under the ownership of the content creators.
- Project Grants: Grant to established feminist groups seeking to provide technical and political support that may enable groups who are seeking to establish new programs or start a new activity. Project Grants aim to encourage groups that have ongoing, funded, activities to keep up with changing political contexts and community needs by supporting them financially and technically as they mindfully expand their work. Doria Fund encourages groups to broaden the scope of their work and to adopt new feminist practices and mechanisms that further their current work as well.
- Emergency Response Grants: Doria’s Emergency Response Grants are flexible core support offered to existing and new grantee partners, Doria grant applicants, and other organisations and collectives within the networks or by referral, that are in need of urgent and short-term financial resources. This grant is core, flexible support to support the grantee community through unexpected crises. The grant can be used for emergency response, disaster relief support, well-being and care initiatives, medical or health support, community aid, or for strengthening the work of the organisation or initiative to be able to respond more effectively to the changing conditions in their context.
Funding Information
- Core, Flexible Grants can range up to $15,000 USD.
- Knowledge Production Grants are awarded up to $15,000 USD.
- The Project Fund (up to $15,000 USD)
- The Emergency Response grant will be a one-time core, flexible grant of up to $15,00 USD, and the grant period will be six months to one year.
Geographic Focus
- Countries eligible for grants
- Algeria, Jordan, Oman, Sudan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Yemen, Mauritania
Eligibility Criteria
- Doria invites feminist activists and feminist movement builders to apply for any of the core funding, project funding, or knowledge production grants. Doria Fund will prioritize applications from:
- New and emerging groups, individuals, and collectives in the MENA region
- Groups, individuals, and collectives who have never previously received funding
- Established groups, individuals, or collectives seeking funding to launch a new project
- Doria Fund seeks to support groups, individuals, and collectives working from a feminist lense, that contribute to feminist movement building, knowledge production, and solidarity. Doria will prioritize:
- Projects and applications led by women and trans groups, individuals, and collectives
- Projects and applications from any country or sub-region in the MENA region
- Individuals are not eligible to apply for grants. Only collectives, groups, or organizations are eligible to submit applications.
For more information, visit The Doria Feminist Fund.