Gender Equality & Women Empowerment: April 2025 Funding Opportunities
Includes opportunities for women's cooperatives, organizations working on SRHR and GBV.
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date.
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible).
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows.
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Open Calls:
Call for concept notes – Health, education and women's and girls’ rights and empowerment in Afghanistan, Global Affairs Canada. *Closing soon!*
Accepting applications from non-profit projects that support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans, especially women and girls, in one or more of the three programming areas: 1. Quality, accessible, gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized (including women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older persons, and other marginalized groups). 2. Demand-driven skills training, particularly for women and girls in all their diversity, in areas such as literacy and numeracy, digital skills, life skills, business skills, and other relevant technical and vocational skill areas. 3. Inclusive services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of all Afghans, with a focus on gender, ethnic and religious minorities, under-serviced populations including those impacted by disability, and support to women-led groups.
Geographies: Afghanistan.
Who can apply: Non-profits. All applicants must be registered in the Partners@International portal of GAC.
Funding amount: The total amount of funding available under call is up to CAD$35,000,000 over 4 years. Anticipate supporting 4 to 8 projects of CAD$2,000,000 to CAD$10,000,000 each.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, education and women's and girls' rights and empowerment.
Deadline: April 2, 2025
Enhancing Women's Resilience and Economic Empowerment in Kigoma Region, UN Women. *New!* *Closing soon!*
The CFP is to secure partnership with Civil Society Organisations(NGO) with proven expertise in advancing women's economic rights, gender equality, and human rights. The goal is to implement innovative, evidence-based models that enhance women's access to gender-responsive financial and business development services, improve market access, and promote equitable resource distribution and economic participation in Kigoma Region. The envisioned CSO will contribute to the following key results including: conduct a mapping and needs assessment to identify 1,000 women entrepreneurs, equipping Women led MSMEs with financial and digital literacy skills, provide labour saving technology such as safe cooking stoves and water storage facilities to selected women SMEs in the informal food industry through cost sharing models, facilitate access to larger markets set up spaces to serve as a business center for women entrepreneurs and more.
Geographies: Tanzania.
Who can apply: CSO, legally registered in Tanzania.
Funding amount: Grant ranges USD $100,000 – $120,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Gender, entrepreneurships, women’s empowerment.
Deadline: April 08, 2025.
Breakthrough Science Grants Program, EQT Foundation. *New!* *Closing this month!*
Now accepting applications for deeptech solutions tackling female-specific health challenges worldwide, with a focus on funding breakthrough scientific innovation. The program aims to accelerate the development of groundbreaking diagnostics, therapeutics, and deeptech solutions addressing critical gaps in female health, an area historically underfunded despite its vast economic and societal impact. The call is open to scientists from accredited institutions worldwide, ensuring that innovations from diverse research ecosystems can contribute to closing the women’s health gap. EQT Foundation’s Breakthrough Science grants program is designed to fund scientists working on solutions at the intersection of science and commercialization. It prioritizes research focused on: 1. Advanced diagnostics for conditions like endometriosis, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune disorders that present differently in women, 2.Non-hormonal therapeutics for menstrual health, menopause, and gynecological conditions, 3. Female-focused deeptech innovations improving access, affordability & effectiveness of care, and 4. Innovative maternal health solutions for complications like pre-eclampsia and pre-term birth, with an emphasis on both high- and low-resource healthcare settings.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Any scientist or researcher (PhD student, Postdoc, PI, etc.) associated with an accredited University, hospital, or other research.
Funding amount: Grants range €25,000 - €100,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, gender, deeptech.
Deadline: April 27, 2025.
Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), European Commission.
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