Our Grants
UAF A&P offers funding to women and non-binary[1] activists, their families and their organisations in times of crisis. We offer two kinds of grants. A security and well-being grant is for those who need urgent funding to ensure safety from physical or emotional harm. A resourcing resilience grant is for those who seek to prepare for threats, and those who need to respond to a critical issue or opportunity in the next 3-6 months. We request your patience during the UAF A&P application review process. Please expect acknowledgment of your application within 48-72 hours. We encourage you to keep checking your ProtonMail inbox and/or your application dashboard in your UAF A&P account for all updates and communications. Once an application is approved and necessary documents have been signed, please expect to receive your grant within 10-15 working days.
Types of Grants
Security and well-being grants
This grant is available to women and non-binary* human rights defenders and organisations in Asia and the Pacific who have immediate or time-urgent needs related to their safety or well-being. It is intended for a person or organisation experiencing a threat or in case of emergency, crisis or risk due to their defence of women’s rights and human rights. It is also available for time-urgent needs for well-being such as psycho-social counselling, treatment for trauma, or medical assistance.
Resourcing resilience grants
This grant is available to women and non-binary* human rights defenders and organisations in Asia and the Pacific who – on their own or in collaboration with others – seek to implement an initiative or respond to an unanticipated opportunity that would contribute to the resilience of women’s human rights and human rights activism and movements.
Webs of safety and care grants
UAF A&P’s Webs of Safety and Care (WSC) grants seek to support women, trans, and non-binary-led human rights organisations and networks with the necessary resources to build and strengthen community-based safety and care structures and practices in response to the risks, threats, and challenges they face in their activism. These grants are a part of UAF A&P’s Enabling Defenders programme and are open for applications until 15th September 2023.
Approval Process
Any activist or defender applying for a UAF Asia and Pacific grant is requested to first create a free ProtonMail account to ensure secure communication. Using this e-mail ID, they can then register on the Rapid Response Grant-making (RRG) system. While filling the application form, please ensure that all relevant details are correctly mentioned. Once submitted, the applicant will receive an application number and be assigned a grant facilitator. Please expect acknowledgment of your application within 48-72 hours. During the due diligence phase, the application will be reviewed by the facilitator and a regional advisor. We encourage you to keep checking your ProtonMail inbox and/or your application dashboard in your UAF Asia and Pacific account for all updates and communications. Once an application is approved and necessary documents have been signed, please expect to receive your grant within 7-10 business days. The grant cycle closes when the grantee submits a final report on how the funds have been utilised.
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR GRANTS:
Grants are available up to $5000 USD. Subsequent applications from the same defender or organisation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
All applications must respond to one of the grant types. Take our GRANTS ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT
We request your patience during the UAF A&P application review process. Please expect acknowledgment of your application within 48-72 hours. We encourage you to keep checking your ProtonMail inbox and/or your application dashboard in your UAF A&P account for all updates and communications. Once an application is approved and necessary documents have been signed, please expect to receive your grant within 10-15 working days.
Our grant making is informed by our roster of regional and country advisors whom we rely upon to assess applications.
Your privacy is critical and we take measures to ensure your safety. Applications are shared only with UAF A&P’s advisors or trusted contacts (as needed).
Once a grant has been approved, the funds are delivered within 10-15 days.
All grantees are required to submit final report describing how the grant has been spent.
To communicate with us, we request that you use encrypted channels: ProtonMail for email and Signal for messaging. For questions about grant applications, contact: grants@uafanp.org. For technical issues using the online application, contact esther@uafanp.org
For further questions, please refer to our FAQs
*Non-binary is an umbrella term referring to individuals whose gender identity and/or gender expression are not exclusively masculine or feminine, male or female — thus, are outside of the gender binary and cisnormativity. UAF A&P uses this term to encompass androgyny, polygender, genderqueer, gender fluid and a-gender individuals.