Deadline : 12th October 2026. (12:00 Midnight)
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), with funding from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), through the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Project, is pleased to announce a Call for Expression of Interest for Strategic Innovation Funding (SIF) to support creative and innovative interventions aimed at advancing the rights of women and girls in Nigeria.
The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is a grant designed to support innovative ideas and initiatives addressing gender issues with a focus on diverse women and girls. This fund provides women’s rights organizations (WROs) with the opportunity to design and test creative approaches that promote and protect women and girls’ rights. Through this fund, WROs can pilot new ideas, models, and technologies that challenge existing barriers, strengthen advocacy, and generate scalable solutions for achieving transformative changes in women and girls’ lives. Ideas that address violence against women and girls, protect women and girls in conflict or on the move, women economic justice and empowerment, women political participation and leadership including policy advocacy and influencing. For this fund, innovation may include a new approach, adaptation of an existing solution, use of technology, community-driven methodology, partnership model, advocacy approach, or other creative strategy that offers a more effective way to advance women’s rights.
Award Ceiling
Up to Five (5) innovative ideas will be granted in this round with a grant ceiling of Twenty Million Naira (NGN20,000,000.00) each, to be implemented within Six (6) months to One (1) year period.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
This call is open to all women’s rights organizations in Nigeria.
To be eligible for this grant, you must:
- Be a women’s rights organization or women’s rights network.
- Be women-led and operating in Nigeria.
- Propose an intervention that is innovative, creative, strategic, and impactful for women and girls.
- Demonstrate how this intervention will advance gender equality, gender justice, contribute to systemic change and complement existing efforts in advancing the rights of women and girls.
- Show how scalable the intervention can be.
- Demonstrate the capacity to implement within a short timeframe and achieve measurable impact.
Submission Guidelines
Timeline and Application procedure
- Call Opens:23rd September 2026.
- Deadline for Submission: 12th October 2026. (12:00 Midnight)
- Submit your completed EOI and required documents via email to:
[email protected] - Use the subject line: “Strategic Innovation Fund September 2026
Download Application Templates Below