[December 2023]
A list of top grant opportunities for NGOs and individuals working for the promotion of women empowerment and gender equality around the world.
Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment
Deadline Date: February 15, 2024
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Government of Iceland, has issued a call for nominations for the first ever edition of the Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment…[more]
Apply for Pitch-A-Fix opportunity to access up to N50m
Deadline Date: January 20, 2024
Are you a female entrepreneur managing your own business? Does your business leverage innovation? Does it have a social benefit or impact? Interested in specialized training to grow your business? Seeking business partners for funding and growth? Workplace Women are excited to invite female entrepreneurs with a viable business to apply for the opportunity to access up to N50m…[more]
Brazil Reporting Trip – Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice in the Americas
Deadline Date: December 18, 2023
The International Women’s Media Foundation, the Women’s Equality Center and Azmina are pleased to lead a nine-day reporting trip focused on reproductive rights in Brazil from March 5-15, 2024…[more]
THE SKATEROOM’s Social Skate Project
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
Are you a registered social skate charity/NGO responding to an existing need in your community? If yes, then apply for THE SKATEROOM’s Social Skate Project…[more]
Apply for Technovation Girls Program
Deadline Date: March 13, 2024
Are you ready to join a global community and create a wave of change to change the world? If yes, then register for Technovation Girls 2024…[more]
Applications open for IWMF’s Kim Wall Memorial Fund
Deadline Date: December 17, 2023
The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting applications from journalists for the Kim Wall Memorial Fund…[more]
V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography 2024
Deadline Date: January 04, 2024
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography…[more]
Request for Proposals: Global Women, Peace and Security Rapid Response Fund
Deadline Date: Ongoing
With the support of the US State Department’s Secretary’s Office on Global Women’s Issues, Search for Common Ground (Search) is launching a global Women, Peace and Security Rapid Response Fund to support local efforts in women, peace and security (WPS)…[more]
Call for Applications: Rapid Response Window on Women’s Participation
Deadline Date: Ongoing
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]
Applications open for Maypole Fund to support Feminist Activism
Deadline Date: January 31, 2024
Do you have an imaginative, non-violent project on feminist anti-militarism and anti-war activism? The Maypole Fund may be able to support your activism with a grant of up to £1000…[more]
Call for Proposals for Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists
Deadline Date: Ongoing
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has announced a call for proposals for the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists to promote the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices…[more]
Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program
Deadline Date: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is inviting applications for the Gender Equality Grants Program. It is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls…[more]
Call for Proposals: Adaptive Social Protection in Fragile Contexts
Deadline Date: January 19, 2024
The Impact Catalyst Fund (‘ICF’), a strategic initiative of the UNICEF Evaluation Office, has announced the second call for proposals focuses on the thematic area of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP)…[more]
Call for Proposals: African Development Fund CAW Adaptation Sub-window
Deadline Date: February 02, 2024
The African Development Bank Group has announced a call for proposals under Climate Action Window (CAW) for the Adaptation Sub-Window…[more]
Call for Proposals: Strengthening the role of Key Populations to improve Health and Wellbeing
Deadline Date: January 24, 2024
L’Initiative, a funding mechanism implemented by Expertise France, has announced a call for proposals to strengthen the role of key populations in relation to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to improve health and wellbeing…[more]
Call for Proposals: Strengthening of Human Resources for Health
Deadline Date: January 24, 2024
L’Initiative, a funding mechanism implemented by Expertise France, is currently accepting proposals to support projects that adopt a systemic approach to strengthening health systems at all levels (from community to national), their policy and regulation, their organizational structure, and the behaviors and practices of actors…[more]
RFPs: Accelerating Catalyzing Solutions for Climate Change’s Impact on Health, Agriculture, and Gender
Deadline Date: January 31, 2024
Grand Challenges (GC) partners including GC Africa (Science for Africa Foundation), GC Brazil (Ministry of Health of Brazil), GC Ethiopia (Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI)), GC India (Department of Biotechnology of India), and GC Rwanda (National Council for Science and Technology), along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Pasteur Network, and supported by Wellcome, Foundation S-the Sanofi Collective, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching this request for proposals (RFP) to identify and support promising innovations…[more]
CFPs: Strengthening Feminist Organisations in the Fight against Gender-Based Violence
Deadline Date: January 01, 2024
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has launched the Feminist Opportunities Now (FON) Project to strengthen feminist networks, alliances and movements working to prevent and end gender-based violence…[more]
Call for Applications: TechWomen Program 2024
Deadline Date: January 10, 2024
Applications are now open for the TechWomen Program to empower, connect and support the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by providing them access and opportunity to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and become role models for women and girls in their communities…[more]
Open call for Tadamon Grants Program (Round 2)
Deadline Date: January 05, 2024
Are you a dynamic and visionary Civil Society Organization (CSO) passionate about driving sustainable development and making a significant impact on hard-to-reach communities? Tadamon is thrilled to announce the launch of the second round of Tadamon Grants!…[more]
Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother” 2024
Deadline Date: September 30, 2024
The Merck Foundation is accepting applications for the Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother”…[more]
Applications open for Sport for Women’s Empowerment Programme
Deadline Date: December 14, 2023
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]
Request for Applications: Building Resilience among Frontline Workers’ Organizations
Deadline Date: January 31, 2024
The Democracy at Work Fund is currently accepting applications to build resilience among frontline workers’ organizations leading efforts at the intersection of labor rights, democracy, and a just transition…[more]
Call for Applications: Women Researchers Fellowship, XCEPT Program
Deadline Date: January 15, 2024
The Asia Foundation is announcing a fellowship program targeting women researchers from the Global South with an interest in researching conflict dynamics in border regions…[more]
EaP Civil Society Fellowship Programme 2024
Deadline Date: December 27, 2023
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility is delighted to announce a call for applications for its EU-funded Fellowship programme…[more]
Call for EOIs: Legal Empowerment Groups in Southeast Asia
Deadline Date: January 10, 2024
If your organization is based in Southeast Asia, you use legal empowerment strategies to pursue land and environmental justice and your work centers on women, youth, or disabled people, please apply now…[more]
Applications open for Amazonia Forever Program (2nd Round)
Deadline Date: February 15, 2024
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through its innovation laboratory, IDB Lab, and in partnership with Green Climate Fund (GCF) seeks to support overcome technical, financial and knowledge barriers faced by innovative bio-businesses in the Amazon Basin capable of supporting the reduction of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and increase the resilience of targeted value chains and ecosystems in the Amazon region…[more]
AFSEE Fellowship Programme for Social-change Leaders
Deadline Date: January 11, 2024
Applications are now open for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) fellowship programme for social-change leaders who are working to tackle inequality…[more]
USAID Governance Activity in Turkmenistan
Deadline Date: January 25, 2024
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the USAID Governance Activity in Turkmenistan…[more]
Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders
Deadline Date: January 19, 2024
Submissions are now open for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders, a 12-week hybrid accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in Europe and Israel…[more]
Call for Proposals: Strengthening Grassroots Women’s Rights Organisations in Peru
Deadline Date: December 30, 2023
The British Embassy in Lima is calling for proposals to support grassroots women’s rights organisations and their work to enhance human rights accountability…[more]
Request for Applications: Expansion of Community HIV Response in Nigeria
Deadline Date: February 19, 2024
Centers for Disease Control – CDC is inviting applications to support civil society organization (CSO) group(s) to work with the Government of Nigeria (GoN) to expand the delivery of a comprehensive package of HIV services to sub population groups through community-led approaches in select CDC-supported sub-national units…[more]
CFLI Grant Program in El Salvador: Up to $40,000 Canadian Dollars
Deadline Date: January 31, 2024
The Embassy of Canada to El Salvador is pleased to launch its annual call for proposals for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) 2024-25…[more]
Cameroon: Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2024
Deadline Date: January 05, 2024
The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement the 2024 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Cameroon…[more]
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Venezuela
Deadline Date: January 01, 2024
The Venezuela Affairs Unit (VAU) Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Venezuela and an AWE Alumni Project…[more]
HumAngle Accountability Fellowship Programme (Nigeria)
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
HumAngle Foundation is seeking applications for the Humangle Accountability Fellowship Programme to identify exceptional young men and women passionate about professionally implementing and advancing their self-designed projects…[more]
#EverydayNile Photojournalism Project “Water and Biodiversity” (Nile Basin)
Deadline Date: December 30, 2023
The #The EverydayNile photojournalism project is designed to document and capture everyday life on the Nile. It further aims to promote cooperation and understanding of the water issues around the Nile River as a shared natural resource in the 10 countries…[more]
U.S. Mission to South Africa Annual Program Statement
Deadline Date: March 28, 2024
The U.S. Mission to South Africa Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce its Annual Program Statement (APS) for Fiscal Year 2024…[more]
USAID Governance for Local Development Plus (GoLD +) Program – Senegal
Deadline Date: March 01, 2024
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Governance for Local Development Plus (GOLD +) program…[more]
EU Civil Society Facility and Media Programme for Kosovo
Deadline Date: February 06, 2024
The European Commission has launched the Civil Society and Media programme to improve the working environment of media professionals and journalists, and to promote independent and quality journalism, particularly coming from non-mainstream, local, and non-majority media…[more]
Call for Proposals: Community-Based Adaptation Projects (Bhutan)
Deadline Date: January 08, 2024
The GEF-Small Grants Programme, implemented by UNDP in partnership with the Royal Government of Bhutan, would like to announce its call for proposals for 2023 inviting civil society organizations and community-based organizations to submit innovative and inclusive project proposals that will build resilience of communities to the impact of climate change…[more]
U.S. Embassy in DRC: Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Program
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
The U.S. Embassy Kinshasa in partnership with Groupe Utalii Kwetu invites Women Entrepreneurs aged 25-45 years living in Kinshasa, Kisangani, Lubumbashi, Goma and Bukavu to apply for the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program 2023 – the very first cohort of AWE in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…[more]
Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects – Bangladesh
Deadline Date: March 30, 2024
The Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh is seeking applications for Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects…[more]
Flourish Africa Grant for Female Entrepreneurs – Nigeria
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
The Flourish Africa Grant for Female Entrepreneurs is a One Billion Naira Fund created to support and promote African female-owned businesses over 5 years through training, mentoring, and funding…[more]
Fortune Global Women’s Mentoring Program – Egypt
Deadline Date: December 26, 2023
Applications are now open for the Fortune-U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership to support the United States’ goal of advancing women’s economic empowerment, both locally and globally…[more]
AMDISS’ Innovation Hackathon Micro Grant Competition (Round 2 and 3) – South Sudan
Deadline Date: December 22, 2023
If you are a media practitioner, innovator, woman, or youth with creative media ideas to address challenges in your community, then the AMDISS’ Innovation Hackathon is the perfect platform for you to pitch and present your solutions, both tech and non-tech, to issues surrounding access to credible information, reaching target listeners, and enhancing the impact of media practitioners…[more]
AIF’s Banyan Impact Fellowship – Service in India 2024-25
Deadline Date: February 20, 2024
The American India Foundation (AIF) Banyan Impact Fellowship is an interdisciplinary experiential learning program that places young professionals from India in service with development organizations in India…[more]
Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects – Samoa
Deadline Date: January 31, 2024
The Embassy of Japan in Samoa is seeking applications for Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects for Japanese Fiscal Year 2024…[more]
Gender Climate Award 2024 (Pakistan)
Deadline Date: December 30, 2023
The Gender Climate Award 2024 is now accepting applications! Join in celebrating the contributions of remarkable women in Climate Action, Young Climate Journalism, and Green Enterprise…[more]
Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Young Women Leaders – Turkmenistan
Deadline Date: December 18, 2023
U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan is currently accepting applications for the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Young Women Leaders program on the topic of Environmental Issues…[more]
Women’s Leadership Development Program – Zimbabwe
Deadline Date: February 16, 2024
The Public Diplomacy (PD) section of the U.S. Embassy Zimbabwe under the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for programs that strengthen women’s leadership skills and potential while also building connections with U.S. women in leadership positions…[more]
Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History (US)
Deadline Date: May 15, 2024
The National Archives Foundation is pleased to announce the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History…[more]
Community Foundation for Merseyside Women’s Fund – United Kingdom
Deadline Date: December 20, 2023
The Community Foundation for Merseyside has launched the Women’s Fund to support women who are most marginalised to overcome barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential…[more]
Call for Proposals: Community Infrastructure Development Grants (Pakistan)
Deadline Date: January 04, 2024
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has announced a call for proposals to identify interested and qualified implementing partners for the implementation of community-led infrastructure proposals aimed at delivering basic public services for the poor…[more]
Women in Tech Incubation Programme in Zambia
Deadline Date: January 12, 2024
Submissions are now open for the Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator, Africa’s leading incubator programme for female-led and founded businesses…[more]
MPOWER Women in STEM Scholarship (U.S. and Canada)
Deadline Date: January 15, 2024
Scholarships awarded annually to female international/DACA students who are currently enrolled or accepted to study full-time in a STEM degree program at a program MPOWER supports in the United States or Canada…[more]
Rise Up Leadership Program to advance Gender Equity and Justice in India
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
Global nonprofit Rise Up is seeking applications to select a group of local civil society leaders from Jharkhand, India to participate in the Leadership Accelerator training program to advance gender equity and justice in 2024…[more]
Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program – Japan
Deadline Date: September 30, 2024
The U.S. Embassy Tokyo Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program…[more]
Applications open for Women and Girls Fund – Canada
Deadline Date: January 30, 2024
The Red Deer & District Community Foundation has launched the Women and Girls Fund to support organizations at the heart of the women’s movement, whose core activities, leadership, mission, and vision are committed to advancing gender equity…[more]
Request for Applications: FELIZ Activity in Mozambique
Deadline Date: December 28, 2023
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Fortifying OVC services, Empowering adolescents, and youth, and Leveraging and Incorporating community feedback in Zambezia (FELIZ) Activity…[more]
Direct Aid Program 2023-24 (India)
Deadline Date: June 30, 2024
The Australian Consulate General in Mumbai is offering grants to support projects with a strong development focus that complement Australia’s broader aid program which contributes to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction…[more]
Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects in Cameroon
Deadline Date: December 28, 2023
The Embassy of Japan in Cameroon is currently accepting applications for the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) to support organizations in implementing projects contributing to improving the well-being and meeting the basic needs of the local population…[more]
FemFund Feminist Emergency Service to support Activists in Poland
Deadline Date: Ongoing
FemFund is accepting applications for the Feminist Emergency Service to support activists so that they have the means to face a crisis situation, they can take care of their safety and well-being…[more]
Bloom Fellowship Program for ambitious Women (Bangladesh)
Deadline Date: Ongoing
The Bangladesh Women Investors’ Network (BWIN) has launched the Bloom Fellowship, a 6-week fellowship program for young women, designed to be a “talent accelerator” for preparation for roles in the startup sector to create the next generation of #WomenStartupLeaders…[more]
Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) in Pakistan
Deadline Date: Ongoing
The Embassy of Japan in Pakistan is currently accepting applications for the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) to support small-scale development projects, which aim to improve the social well being of the people at the grassroots level…[more]
Seed Grants available for Small Grassroots Women’s Groups in Sierra Leone
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
The Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is offering seed grants to small grassroots organizations to support micro-enterprise and self-employment projects…[more]
Seed Grants for Small Grassroots Organizations in India
Deadline Date: December 31, 2023
Right Sharing of World Resources is seeking applications to provide seed grants to small grassroots organizations to implement women-led, income-generating projects…[more]
