[May 2025]
Explore a range of exciting open funding opportunities available for NGOs, CSOs, and Individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. These grants support impactful work in agriculture development, environmental sustainability, health, youth and women empowerment, and contributions toward the SDGs. Discover the full list below:
Jana Robeyst Trust Fund launches Small Conservation Grants
Deadline: 31-Aug-25
The Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF) provides financial resources to early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Africa…[more]
Call for EOIs: reach52 Growth Partner Program 2025
Deadline: 30-Jun-25
reach52 is seeking expressions of interest from established Growth Partners (which can include community-based organisations, such as NGOs, socially-minded private sector firms, and civil society organisations) to help them recruit and train Community Health Workers…[more]
Spaces of Culture Funding Scheme in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: 8-Jun-25
Are you a cultural and/or civil society organisation in Sub-Saharan Africa, looking to start or strengthen an Africa-Europe collaboration project in culture? Or, do you want to engage with other African and European partners to respond to local challenges through a co-creative and innovative cultural project? If yes, then The Spaces of Culture Funding Scheme is the right choice for you…[more]
Supporting African Science and Tertiary Education (SASTE) Grant – 4th Call
Deadline: 30 November 2025
The Supporting African Science and Tertiary Education (SASTE) Grant to support high potentials from Sub Sahara Africa working in the field of Agriculture, Forestry, Water Management, Renewable Energies, Nutritional Science, Human and Veterinary Medicine for a research stay in Austria…[more]
Call for Postdoctoral: UKUDLA Fellowship Program 2025
Deadline: 1 June 2025
The African German Centre of Excellence for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science (UKUDLA) invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the area of sustainable, resilient food systems and data science…[more]
Call for Applications: Zayed Sustainability Prize
Deadline: 23-Jun-2025
Applications are now open for the Zayed Sustainability Prize that recognises and rewards small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions…[more]
Submissions open for SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund
Deadline: 23-Jun-25
The Southern African Development Community is seeking applications for its SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund to create additional resources at the regional level without disrupting or diminishing existing financial flows to individual Member States…[more]
Story Grants to Report on Great Apes and One Health in Africa
Deadline: 4 June 2025
The Earth Journalism Network is offering reporting grants to journalists in range countries in Africa to support the production of in-depth stories on threats faced by great apes, particularly the impact of disease and other health considerations, as well as conservation strategies to protect these species and their habitats…[more]
Nominations open for IGAD Media Awards for Journalistic Excellence
Deadline: 30 July 2025
The IGAD Media Awards is a flagship initiative by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development that celebrates and amplifies journalistic excellence across the region…[more]
Call of Interest for Climate Services Specialists and Field-Based Practitioners
Deadline: 30 May 2025
Are you a scientist working on climate data and services in an African climate service agency or in academic institutions? Or are you a middle-to-senior level field-based practitioner working on climate adaptation and nature-based solution with public or private sectors around UNESCO designated sites? If your answer is yes then now is your chance to apply for the Climate Services Specialists and Field-Based Practitioners Mentorship Programme…[more]
Applications open for ESO Uplift Programme 2025
Deadline: 25-May-25
The ESO Uplift Programme is a component of the Social and Impact Entrepreneurship (SIE) Project co-funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), implemented by GrowthAfrica in collaboration with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) and the Amahoro Coalition…[more]
International Parliamentary Fellowship of the German Bundestag
Deadline: 13 July 2025
The German Bundestag invites politically and socially engaged young university graduates from East Africa to a scholarship program in Berlin in January…[more]
Apply for Francis H. Brown African Scholarship Program
Deadline: 15 July 2025
The Leakey Foundation is seeking applications for its Francis H. Brown African Scholarship Program to expand human knowledge and scientific interest in earth sciences and botany related to human origins by providing financial assistance to East African researchers and students pursuing research in these areas…[more]
