WUNRN
URGENT ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights (UAF) is a global women’s fund that exists to protect, strengthen and sustain women human rights defenders at critical moments in time. By intervening quickly when defenders are poised to make great gains or face serious threats to their lives and work, UAF provides an efficient and effective model of strategic philanthropy.
Designed and led by women activists, UAF’s core programs –Rapid Response Grantmaking and Research, Publications, Advocacy & Alliance Building – strengthen and inform one another. Read more about UAF’s programs.
Both UAF and our sister funds, Urgent Action Fund-Africa, and Urgent Action Fund-Latin America, focus our efforts in the toughest terrain: areas affected by armed conflict, escalating violence, political volatility and extreme repression. We are led by our international activist Board of Directors and supported by our local and international advisors.
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Rapid Response Grantmaking
Rapid
Response Grantmaking is a funding tool used to support interventions by
activists in a strategic and timely manner. Grant requests are accepted
365 days per year, in any language, from activists around the world. Each
request receives a response within 72 hours and funds can be wired within a
week. UAF created this unique grantmaking model in 1997 to enable women
activists to take advantage of unexpected opportunities, mitigate threats
and/or prevent backsliding in their ongoing work to advance the human rights of
all people.
When
a crisis or new opportunity arises, women's rights activists look for
effective, innovative ways to respond. Often, activists are unable to
implement these strategic interventions due to a lack flexible funds, or the
lengthy approval processes of many donors.
UAF
was created to fill this specific need for time-urgent funding, enabling
women's human rights defenders to act quickly to take advantage of unexpected opportunities,
mitigate threats and/or prevent backsliding in their ongoing work to advance
the human rights of all people.
Urgent
Action Fund provides grants to women's human rights defenders without
distinction of any kind as to race, language, religion, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, political or other opinions, national or social
origin.