[November 2023]
This International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we’re excited to present a compilation of opportunities that familiarize you with a range of initiatives focused on advocating for equality, supporting survivors, and fostering a safer environment for women worldwide.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s Emerging Scholar Award
Deadline: 1 February 2024
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is seeking applications for the Emerging Scholar Award to recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence…[more]
Call for Submissions: Health for All Film Festival (HAFF)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting public health institutions from around the world, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), communities, activists and students in public health, film schools, and other relevant domains to submit their original short films championing a health issue…[more]
Applications open for Lush Charity Pot Grant
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applicants are now encouraged to submit applications for the Lush Charity Pot Grant…[more]
FREE STEM Fund to empower Girls, Women, Transgender and Non-Binary People
Deadline: 15-Dec-23
Optiver Foundation has launched the FREE STEM Fund to create equal opportunity through greater access to STEM education…[more]
Applications open for Transnational Research Project
Deadline: 11 December 2023
The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice is looking to support five, eighteen month transnational research projects…[more]
Call for Proposals: Supporting Regional Thematic Networks of Civil Society Organisations
Deadline: 29-Dec-23
The European Commission (EC) is accepting proposals to enhance regional cooperation, good neighbourly relations and reconciliation, to strengthen participatory democracies and the EU approximation process in the Western Balkans and Türkiye…[more]
Generation Change Fellows Program in the Pacific Islands
Deadline: 30 November 2023
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is delighted to announce the Generation Change Fellows Program that will focus on training youth leaders (ages 18-35) from the Pacific Islands, who have experience in peacebuilding, in a 5-day training on prejudice awareness and reduction, effective leadership and conflict transformation…[more]
Applications open for Sport for Women’s Empowerment Programme
Deadline: 14-Dec-23
Through the “Sport for women’s empowerment” program, the GIZ and FIFA are joining forces to combat gender inequalities and gender-based violence and promote and facilitate women’s access to leadership, professional integration, entrepreneurship, life skills, governance, access to healthcare etc. using sport as a development tool…[more]
KIX Call for Proposals to support Teacher Professional Development, Agency & Well-Being
Deadline: 15-Jan-24
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is inviting proposals for applied research projects to generate and mobilize evidence in support of contextualizing and scaling the impact of promising or proven innovative approaches to strengthen teacher professional development, agency, and well-being, in GPE partner countries…[more]
Apply for Community Development Grant
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is currently accepting applications for the Community Development Grant…[more]
APN: Collaborative Working Group Research Fellowship (Africa)
Deadline: 11 February 2024
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites applications from senior African academics and researchers based at universities, training, and policy institutions in Africa to assemble and lead collaborative research projects intended to inform policy and practice on conflict and peacebuilding on the continent…[more]
Call for Applications: Young African Feminist Fund
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Through Young African Feminist Fund, the African Human Rights Network (AHRN) is providing support to numerous young feminist movements across 14 African countries, both registered and non-registered…[more]
Submit LOIs for One Day’s Wages Matching Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The One Day’s Wages is now accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for matching grants to support locally-led, community-based organizations that do not have a Western-based branch, board, or network of donors…[more]
Open Call for Bilateral Initiatives between Slovakia and Norway – Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
Deadline: 20-Dec-23
The Ministry of Investments, Regional Development, and Informatization of the Slovak Republic has announced an Open Call to strengthen bilateral relations between entities from Norway and Slovakia active in the field of Domestic and Gender-based Violence…[more]
Call for Proposals: ISDAO-Love Alliance 4th cycle (Burkina Faso and Nigeria)
Deadline: 30-Nov-23
The Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) has launched a call for proposals to ensure the health and empowerment of communities of LGBTQI people, sex workers and people who use drugs (DU), through an approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights that is more inclusive and people-centered…[more]
Call for Proposals: Reducing Violence against Sex Workers in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Deadline: 6-Dec-23
Aidsfonds is inviting organisations led by sex workers in Zimbabwe and Mozambique for the Hands Off programme…[more]
American Psychological Foundation’s Wayne F. Placek Grants (US)
Deadline: 12 June 2024
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is accepting applications for the Wayne F. Placek Grants to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men, and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilizations…[more]
Applications open for APF Visionary Grants – United States
Deadline: 3 April 2024
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems…[more]
“Change Makers in Action: Activism against Gender-Based Violence” Video Competition in Tajikistan
Deadline: 3 December 2023
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is accepting applications for the “Change makers in Action: Activism against Gender-Based Violence” Video Competition to raise awareness about the gender-based violence and domestic violence in Tajikistan, the importance of promoting women’s rights, gender equality, women’s education, and family health by addressing traditional narratives and stereotypes through impactful social media videos…[more]
Berlin Scholarship Program: Empowering Journalists in the Digital Field (Germany)
Deadline: 4 December 2023
The Reporters Without Borders Germany is calling for applications for its Berlin Scholarship Program: Empowering Journalists in the Digital Field…[more]
Minister’s Award for Excellence in Championing Gender Equality – VIVE (Canada)
Deadline: 31-Dec-23
Nominations are now open for the Minister’s Award for Excellence in Championing Gender Equality – VIVE to promote gender equality in their lives, workplaces and government…[more]
Call for Proposals: Implementation and Logistic support of a Police Athletic League in Guatemala
Deadline: 5-Jan-24
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to support Guatemala’s National Civilian Police (PNC) with the implementation of the Police Athletic League (PAL) program in Guatemala…[more]
Call for Applications: Sustaining Impact for Youth Activity (Haiti)
Deadline: 11 December 2023
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for cooperative agreement from local qualified entities to implement the Sustaining Impact for Youth program…[more]
Public Diplomacy Grants Program (Turkey)
Deadline: 29 December 2023
U.S. Mission Türkiye of the U.S. Department of State invites proposals for projects that strengthen ties between the United States and Türkiye through cultural and educational programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation…[more]
Salvadoran Women in Citizen Security Program
Deadline: 1-Dec-23
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to advance participation of women and other underrepresented persons in Salvadoran security institutions, including the National Civil Police (PNC) and the National Police Academy (ANSP)…[more]
Funding of up to $5,000 available to promote Gender Equality in Australia
Deadline: 31-Dec-23
The Office of Gender Equity and Diversity General Grants Program is providing grants for projects, services and events that meet the objectives of the action plan by promoting gender equality in the Northern Territory…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Guyana Call for Small Grants
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
UN Women is offering small grant to engage on social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at risk groups including at-risk youth and network building among CSOs to support social justice activism on GBV and Family Violence…[more]