Call for Applications – African Environmental Defenders
Against the backdrop of the challenges faced by African Environmental Defenders, and the dwindling civic spaces in most African countries, Natural Justice and partners have expressed their commitment towards protecting environmental and land defenders. To achieve this goal, the NGOs established the ‘African Environmental Defenders Emergency Fund’ to support environmental and land defenders who find themselves in emergency […]
Call for Applications – WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey 2026
Deadline: 10 October 2025 Applications are open for the WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey 2026. The fully funded, 12-month WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey is designed to provide talented mid-senior career women leaders in health with the sate space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network […]
Call for Proposals – Urgent Action Fund Grants
Urgent Action Fund Africa provides financial support for strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance womn’s human rights. Such opportunities arise when an unexpected event – positive or negative – creates a situation in which rapid intervention can significantly impact. Our Funding Criteria We are only able to support interventions that are: Types […]
Call for Applications – Global Security Lead (Front Line Defenders)
Deadline: Wednesday, 14 October 2025 (midnight, local Irish time) Front Line Defenders is an international organisation/charity based in Ireland that works exclusively for the protection of human rights defenders at risk. Human rights defenders are people who are persecuted because of their peaceful work for the rights of others. Front Line Defenders provides help through […]
Call for Applications – Programme Manager, Resourcing Movements (AWDF)
Deadline: 23 September 2025 As a Pan-African feminist fund, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) resources, strengthens and upholds women’s rights and feminist organisations and movements across Africa to make gender justice a reality for all on our continent and worldwide. Over the past 24 years, AWDF has awarded approximately USD 100 million to women’s rights and […]
Call for Peer Reviewers – NAWI Collective
Deadline: 26 September 2025 The Nawi Afrifem Collective (Nawi Collective) is an African Feminist Political Economy collective founded in 2020 with the purpose of building a community of African feminists and organizations working on influencing, analyzing, deconstructing and reconstructing the political economy. As African Feminists, we work to “reclaim the rich histories of Black [women] […]
Call for Applications – Program Manager, AL for the Arts (African Leadership Academy)
Deadline: 26 September 2025 African Leadership Academy (ALA) seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting a new generation of young leaders who will lead the continent towards lasting peace and shared prosperity for all. Since our inception in 2008, we have worked to lay the foundations of this audacious mission by identifying and […]
Call for Applications – Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact Manager (Global Greengrants Fund)
Deadline: 21 September 2025 at 23:00 MT Global Greengrants Fund supports grassroots groups and civil society organisations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. Global Greengrants applies a participatory and decentralised model in making grants to grassroots groups through regional and thematic boards of advisors, global partner networks, […]
Call for Applications – Advocacy Senior Manager (ILGA World)
Deadline: 29 September 2025 at 23:59 Central European Summer Time (CEST) ILGA World is hiring an Advocacy Senior Manager – a leadership role ensuring that our advocacy work remains intersectional, impactful, evidence-based, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic plan. Apply by 29 September 2025 at 23:59 Central European Summer Time (CEST)! The Advocacy Senior Manager […]
Call for Applications – World YWCA Leadership Cohort 2025
Deadline: Sunday, 28 September 2025, 11:59 PM (CET – Geneva time) At a time when women’s rights and gender justice face both unprecedented challenges and opportunities, the World YWCA continues to mobilise a powerful, intergenerational movement around the world. The next period will be pivotal for advancing World YWCA fundraising, donor engagement, and leadership strategies, […]