Urgent Action Fund Africa
For Support Of UAF Africa's Anti-gender Rights Response
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/9/2023
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
As a feminist organization, the pan-African rapid-response fund, Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF-Africa) plays a critical role in resourcing African feminist movements to transform inequitable power structures that diminish women's and gender-diverse people’s worth and undermine their rights. UAF-Africa provides rapid-response funding and accompaniment to African human rights defenders. With this grant, UAF-Africa will support LGBTQ+ activists and movements in East and Central Africa to advance sexual and gender minorities’ rights, gender justice, and democratic governance.
(Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.uaf-africa.org
Address
2nd Floor, Riara Corporate Suites
Riara Road, Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
As a feminist, pan-African, rapid-response fund, Urgent Action Fund (UAF) Africa plays a critical role in resourcing African feminist movements to transform inequitable power structures that diminish women’s worth and undermine their rights. Through an activist-centered approach, UAF Africa provides flexible funding and accompaniment to African human rights defenders, advocates for equitable philanthropic practice, and contributes to cultures of care and healing in the feminist ecosystem.
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of UAF Africa's anti-gender rights response
As a feminist organization, the pan-African rapid-response fund, Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF-Africa) plays a critical role in resourcing African feminist movements to transform inequitable power structures that diminish women's and gender-diverse people’s worth and undermine their rights. UAF-Africa provides rapid-response funding and accompaniment to African human rights defenders. With this grant, UAF-Africa will support LGBTQ+ activists and movements in East and Central Africa to advance sexual and gender minorities’ rights, gender justice, and democratic governance.
(Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance)
