Coming Soon: 2025 Call for Subgrants to Support WHRDs
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is preparing to launch the 2025 open call for subgrants under the Safety for Voices programme aimed at strengthening the safety and resilience of WHRDs, particularly those from marginalised communities.
Applications open soon—watch this space for full details and how to apply.
Rapid Response Grants
Africa
In the Africa region, SfV partner UAF Africa offers a variety of grants to support women and gender-diverse human rights defenders who are navigating urgent risks or working to sustain their activism. UAF Africa provides Rapid Response Grants for urgent security, well-being, and advocacy needs, as well as grants for Collective Care and Healing to support long-term resilience and community-based safety. Grants are available to individuals, organisations, and informal networks that are women-led or gender-diverse-led, and working to advance justice and equality. If you are a defender in Africa facing threats, responding to an opportunity, or in need of support for healing and care, UAF Africa may be able to assist. Visit the grants page to learn more about available support, eligibility, and how to apply. Applications are accepted year-round and reviewed on a rolling basis to provide timely support when it’s most needed
Read more and apply for the grants here.
Asia Pacific
In the Asia and Pacific region, SfV partner UAF Asia and Pacific offers a range of open grants to support women and non-binary human rights defenders facing urgent risks or working to build long-term resilience. These include Security and Well-being Grants for emergencies, Resourcing Resilience Grants for timely initiatives, and Webs of Safety and Care Grants to strengthen community-based safety practices. Special Grants are also offered in response to emerging needs. Each grant is designed to address different aspects of safety, care, and movement-building.If you are a woman or gender-diverse human rights defender in Asia and the Pacific facing urgent risks or emerging opportunities, UAF Asia and Pacific may be able to support you. Their flexible, rapid grants are designed to strengthen safety, well-being, and resilience. Visit the grants page to learn about available funding, eligibility, and how to apply. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with timely responses and support.
Read more to explore the grant options and start your application.
Latin America and the Caribbean
In Latin America and the Caribbean, SfV partner Fondo de Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe, UAF LAC offers Rapid Response Grants to support feminist defenders—women and gender-diverse people—facing urgent risks or seizing opportunities to advance their political advocacy and rights work. These grants are available to individuals, collectives, organisations, and networks confronting threats or responding to critical moments in their activism. UAF LAC’s support focuses on strengthening holistic protection, collective care, and feminist movement-building in the region. If you are a feminist defender navigating a high-risk situation or strategic opportunity, UAF LAC may be able to accompany you. —applications are being accepted on a rolling basis for timely, flexible support.
Visit the grants page to learn more about eligibility and how to apply