[May 2024]
The United Nations is currently providing grants to aid women’s progress in diverse fields. The primary objective of these grants is to empower women, promote gender equality, and hasten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. The grants are available in various categories, which include education, research, entrepreneurship, and leadership. It’s time to start preparing your applications and take advantage of these opportunities to secure the funding you need to make a difference.
CFPs: Eighth Cycle of the UNVTF Small Grants Programme
Deadline: 31-May-24
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for small grants to provide essential humanitarian, legal and financial aid to victims of trafficking in persons through established channels of assistance…[more]
UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund
Deadline: 31-May-24
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is currently accepting applications for Refugee-led Innovation Fund in all countries to provide holistic support to UNHCR colleagues and refugee-led organizations, ensuring innovators have the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to bring lasting positive change to forcibly displaced and stateless communities around the world…[more]
Call for Applications: Rapid Response Window on Women’s Participation
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a Rapid Response Window (RRW) to address the funding gap on women’s participation in formal peace processes and the implementation of peace agreements…[more]
Open for Nominations: UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education
Deadline: 24-May-24
The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions, and organizations to advance girls’ and women’s education. It is the first UNESCO Prize of this nature and is unique in showcasing successful projects that improve and promote the educational prospects of girls and women and in turn, the quality of their lives…[more]
Call for Applications: UNESCO Global Geopark Mentorship Exchange
Deadline: 31 May 2024
Prospective mentors and trainees are invited to apply to participate in two to three weeks of immersive education on the development and management of UNESCO Global Geoparks…[more]
UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award
Deadline: 17-May-24
UN-Habitat is launching its call for nominations for the 2024 round of the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award. The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award recognizes individuals and institutions that have made outstanding contributions in the field of urban development, including improvement of the quality of urban life and provision of adequate, affordable, and accessible housing for all…[more]
Call for Nominations: International Awards in Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science – 2025
Deadline Date: July 01, 2024
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced 2025 International Awards for women in science for their contributions to the advancement of science, in Life Sciences or Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science in alternating years…[more]
CFPs: Advocacy Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action to End Violence Against Women (East and Southern Africa)
Deadline: 17-May-2024
UN Women has launched the call for proposals for women’s rights organizations, networks or coalitions operating with regional/multi-country operations in East and Southern Africa for the Programme “Advocacy Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action to End Violence Against Women”…[more]
WIN DRR Leadership Awards
Deadline: 14 June 2024
The WIN DRR Leadership Awards celebrate and recognise women’s achievements in disaster risk reduction across the Asia-Pacific region. The awards are part of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) flagship women’s leadership initiative, WIN DRR, supported by the Government of Australia…[more]
Call for Proposals: WPHF Climate Security in the Pacific
Deadline: 24-May-24
This Call for Proposals seeks to support projects that enhance women’s participation and leadership in climate-related injustice and conflict prevention, and/or climate-related economic & political decision-making. The Call for Proposals is also open to support local women’s and young women’s rights organizations working in these areas through institutional funding…[more]
GFI Alternative Protein Research Grants Program
Deadline: 23-May-24
Good Food Institute is currently accepting proposals for its Alternative protein research grants programme aimed at tackling urgent scientific and technological challenges within the alternative protein industry…[more]
Call for Expressions of Interest: Women’s Community Based Organizations (Haiti)
Deadline: 27-May-24
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has developed a project entitled “Insertion and support for entrepreneurship of young rural people”, targeting young rural men and women in the communes of Ferrier and St Raphael, located in the NordNord departments in East and North of Haiti…[more]
Call for Proposals – In Her Shoes Program (Armenia)
Deadline: 25-May-24
UN Women is accepting proposals for the In Her Shoes Program, an interactive role-play designed based on the experiences of real survivors for experiential learning about domestic violence…[more]
Call for Expressions of Interest: Integration and support for Entrepreneurship of Rural Youth in Haiti
Deadline: 27-May-24
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the call for expressions of interest for the Recruitment of an institution for the training of 500 Rural Youth as part of Activities to Promote Income Generating Activities (AGR)…[more]
UNDP Competition: “Women Transforming” Beautiful Justice Project – Peru
Deadline: 20-May-24
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is inviting applications for Women Transforming Beautiful Justice Project for women’s groups or organizations at the regional, provincial, district or communal level to present a social innovation initiative that is being implemented in the Huancavelica, Junín, Cajamarca or Lima Este regions, aimed at strengthening female leadership linked to the prevention and attention of gender violence, in order to enhance its processes, make its relevant actors visible and contribute to its sustainability…[more]
CFPs: Social Protection and Legal Aid in Tunisia
Deadline: 19-May-2024
The United Nations Development Program has launched a call for proposals to strengthen access to justice for the benefit of the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals, through public legal aid mechanisms…[more]
L’Oréal–UNESCO “For Women in Science” Egypt Young Talents National Fellowships 2024
Deadline: 30 July 2024
This program identifies and rewards talented young female scientists in the field of Life Sciences (such as biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, physiology, neurosciences, biotechnologies, ecology, and ethology) as well as Physical Sciences (such as physics, chemistry, petroleum engineering, mathematics, engineering sciences, information sciences, Earth, and Universe sciences)…[more]
