Deadline: 27th May 2025
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is delighted to launch their open call for proposals and to invite women’s rights and feminist organisations, collectives and actors to apply!
AWDF is a Pan-African feminist fund working to resource, strengthen and uphold African women’s rights and feminist organisations and movements that strive for gender justice and social transformation. They envision and work towards creating an Africa, and a world, where gender justice, freedom and dignity are achieved for all.
Through this call for proposals, we are launching a number of grants aimed at supporting various movement actors who are often excluded from funding opportunities such as nascent or grassroots organizations and unregistered groups and movements. The call also foregrounds our crisis response strategy by providing an opportunity for funding for those in crisis settings.
AWDF funds organisations or groups where both the Board Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer/ Executive Director are women, girls or gender-diverse persons, and where at least 70% of the Board and staff members of the organisation are women, girls or gender diverse persons.
Below are the details of the grants you can apply to if you meet this criteria.
- Inua Grants – This grant will support initiatives that strengthen the voice,
agency and leadership of women, girls and gender-diverse people to lead actions that contribute to gender justice. - Siza Grants – This crisis response grant provides flexible funding to small grassroots
and unregistered groups in building sustainable solutions in crisis and conflict areas. We refer to conflict areas not only as those experiencing civil war but forgotten conflict areas, and areas that aren’t considered as being in conflict but are experienced as such by women, girls and gender-diverse persons there. It will support responses before, during and after crises. - Matla Grants – This grant aims to support delivery of essential services to women, girls and gender diverse persons experiencing violence, backlash and/or discrimination in French speaking Africa.
- Economic Justice Grants – This grant will resource organisations to dismantle the
barriers to economic justice and equality for African women, girls and gender diverse persons by reimagining economies, and rethinking mechanisations, craft, and intellectual knowledge from micro to macro level. - Zimba Grants – This will support capacity strengthening and movement building in French-speaking Africa only.
For more information and application.