Humanitarian Aid, Emergency Programming & DRR: July 2026 Funding Opportunities (19 new opportunities!)
37 funding signals; $65M+. From frontline rehabilitation in Ukraine to mine clearance in Syria and Afghanistan, the July cycle rewards proven local operators.
Hello everyone,
37 opportunities on the Humanitarian, Emergency and DRR page this cycle, 19 of them new, and one geography dominates. Three patterns run through the fresh calls: Ukraine has become the page’s center of gravity; recovery is being funded as development, not relief; and money is moving to local actors and to protecting those on the front line.
Ukraine has become the center of gravity. One country now anchors this page. Close to half the open calls concern Ukraine, and they read less like emergency relief than like nation-rebuilding. The Partnership for a Strong Ukraine alone is running four calls, on healthcare-worker capacity, social cohesion, informal retraining, and local services, while UNDP funds integrity and anti-corruption in the recovery, veteran reintegration across eight regions, and an innovation accelerator with Moldova. CRDF Global is even funding cyber-resilience for Ukrainian critical infrastructure. We first flagged Ukraine as a localized recovery theme in May; this month it is the organizing fact of the page, and it is increasingly channeled through managed funds rather than direct calls.
Recovery is funded as development, not relief. Across the page, the instrument is livelihoods and institutions, not tents and rations. UNDP funds climate-smart livelihoods for community-policing actors in South Sudan, Innovations for Poverty Action runs a Displaced Livelihoods Initiative, and both UNHCR and the World Food Programme run innovation accelerators for humanitarian solutions. This is the humanitarian-development nexus the we called operationalized in June, now the default: the money assumes a long horizon and builds capacity meant to outlast the crisis.
Money is moving to local actors and to those under threat. The Network for Empowered Aid Response runs a challenge fund for Global-South-led organizations, Front Line Defenders and CIVIC fund protection for civilians and human-rights defenders, the Institute of International Education shelters artists at risk, and Japan’s grassroots human-security grants reach community groups directly. This is the localization thread we named as an eligibility filter in June, paired with a protective turn: funding the people closest to the danger, and keeping them able to keep working.
Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$65 Million+ USD
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date. 20 open opportunities- 19 new!
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible). 15 rolling opportunities!
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows. 2 long term opportunities!
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Open Calls:
Call for Climate-Smart Livelihood Support for Community Policing Actors (South Sudan), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). *New!* *Closing soon!*
The United Nations Development Programme is inviting proposals from local civil society, nongovernmental and community based organizations to build climate smart livelihoods for community policing actors in Central Equatoria State, South Sudan. UNDP is using this call to link economic opportunity with local security, strengthening the Police Community Relations Committees, women and youth who hold trust between communities and police. It wants to back practical enterprise building, vocational skills, savings groups and climate adapted agriculture that participants can sustain after the grant closes. The requirement that applicants be locally registered, present for years, and rooted in Juba signals that UNDP wants delivery from organizations that already understand these communities. The strongest fits are established South Sudanese organizations combining livelihoods, peacebuilding and climate resilience work.
Geographies: South Sudan.
Who can apply: RRC-registered South Sudanese CSOs, NGOs and CBOs with three years of local presence, a Juba office, and operations in Central Equatoria State.
Funding amount: Up to USD 65,000 per grant (administrative costs capped at 10 percent).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Economic Development & Livelihoods; SDG1, SDG5, SDG8, SDG13, SDG16. Focus: climate-smart livelihoods for peacebuilding.
Deadline: July 3, 2026.
UNDP is really buying trust between communities and police, delivered as durable income rather than a workshop. It wants a partner who already knows Jebel Dinka, Joppa and Lologo and can name the enterprises people will still run after the money ends. Lead with your roots in these neighborhoods, put women and youth at the center as required, and let your conflict-sensitive, savings-group approach show it will last.
Building Capacity of Healthcare Workers, Rehabilitation Specialists, and Other Primary Healthcare Professionals (PFRU RFA 19-07), Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), managed by Chemonics UK. *New!* *Closing soon!*
Call 19-07 from the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), here managed by Chemonics UK for a nine-government pool led by the UK FCDO, puts up to UAH 11,840,000 (~USD $285,000) behind a single ten-month grant to strengthen rehabilitation capacity in primary healthcare across nine war-affected oblasts. The selection criteria describe an organization that already runs multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams and understands how patients move between inpatient, outpatient, and community-based care. The winner works in at least 12 hromadas across no fewer than three oblasts, deliberately choosing communities that are not yet the highest-capacity sites but have enough institutional foundation to absorb training and post-discharge models. Scope spans team coordination, community-based rehabilitation, caregiver training, mental health integration, and social workers in case management. Proposals in Ukrainian by July 8, 2026.
Geographies: Ukraine.
Who can apply: Ukrainian-registered organizations with substantial rehabilitation and multidisciplinary team capacity-building experience across the patient care pathway.
Funding amount: Up to USD 285,000 per grant (UAH 11,840,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; SDG3, SDG10, SDG16. Focus: primary healthcare rehabilitation capacity.
Deadline: July 8, 2026.
PFRU wants rehabilitation that survives after the team leaves, which means it is really buying your grasp of how patients move from ward to home to community. Choose your twelve hromadas with visible intent, favoring places ready to absorb the model rather than the strongest sites, and let your existing multidisciplinary teams and referral know-how carry the narrative. Show the discharge and follow-up mechanics you would build, concretely.
Call for Addressing Explosive Ordnance Risks for Safe Return and Humanitarian Access in Homs (Syria), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). *New!* *Closing soon!*
The United Nations Office for Project Services is inviting international nonprofit organizations to reduce explosive ordnance risks in Homs, one of the most heavily contaminated governorates in Syria. Years of war left mines and unexploded ordnance across homes, farmland, and the routes aid teams need to reach people. The work here is practical groundwork: mapping where the danger sits, clearing and mitigating hazards, and teaching residents how to stay safe, so displaced families can return and humanitarian access can open again. Framing this as a short, high-impact effort limited to international organizations signals that UNOPS wants experienced mine action operators who can move fast in a fragile setting. The strongest fits are established explosive ordnance organizations with proven capacity to work safely in post-conflict Syria.
Geographies: Syria.
Who can apply: International not-for-profit organizations with explosive ordnance or mine action capacity able to operate safely in post-conflict Homs.
Funding amount: Not specified in the call package.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDG3, SDG10, SDG16. Focus: mine action for safe return.
Deadline: July 8, 2026.
UNOPS is buying speed and safety from a proven operator, not a learning curve, so this is a fit only for organizations already accredited in mine action. Frame your proposal around how fast you can stand up survey and clearance in a fragile setting, the safety systems that let you do it, and the return and access you unlock. Let evidence of prior Syria or comparable post-conflict work anchor the case.
Support for Local Initiatives Engaging Civil Society to Advance Social Cohesion, Inclusion and Community Resilience (PFRU RFA 19-08), Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU). *New!* *Closing soon!*
The Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), a pooled instrument backed by the UK, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States with the Ukrainian government, funds community recovery across Ukraine's frontline and war-affected oblasts. Call 19-08 funds small, visible acts of togetherness in those hromadas. Funded initiatives must put IDPs, veterans and their families, persons with disabilities, older adults, and young people physically in the same space and have them co-decide and co-deliver something practical: a restored courtyard, a story-exchange series, an accessibility fix. Five to six grants of UAH 3,900,000 to UAH 4,700,000 (about USD $94,000 to $113,000) run eight to ten months. Ukrainian-registered CSOs with prior presence in the named oblasts only; proposals in Ukrainian by July 9, 2026.
Geographies: Ukraine, 8 frontline oblasts (Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson)
Who can apply: Ukrainian-registered CSOs/NGOs with presence in named oblasts
Funding amount: UAH 3,900,000 to 4,700,000 (~USD $94K to $113K) per grant; 5-6 grants total
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Emergency Response; Social Inclusion & Community Wellbeing; Peace & Security. Focus areas: social cohesion; inclusion; community resilience; IDPs; veterans; persons with disabilities; Ukraine recovery; SDGs: 10; 11; 16
Deadline: July 9, 2026 (23:59 Kyiv time; pre-application workshop June 9, 12:00 Kyiv)
PFRU funds repeated contact between specific groups, not a calendar of events. Structure the proposal around how veterans, IDPs, and older neighbors keep choosing and finishing one concrete thing together, and budget for recurring interaction, not headcount at one-off gatherings.
Cybersecurity Improvement Grants for Governmental Authorities and Critical Infrastructure State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) in Ukraine, CRDF Global. *New!* *Closing soon!*
CRDF Global is accepting proposals for its 2026 Cybersecurity Improvement Grants for Governmental Authorities and Critical Infrastructure State-Owned Enterprises in Ukraine, funded by the U.S. Department of State. The support arrives as equipment, software, and services rather than cash, with CRDF Global running the procurement and paying vendors directly, a design that puts the administrative and compliance weight on the funder while the institution keeps the tools. Applicants are asked to tie each request to a concrete operational gap, an existing IT and OT environment, and measurable indicators of cyber maturity, and to show alignment with U.S. security frameworks and allied technology sourcing. The strongest fits are Ukrainian government bodies and critical-infrastructure enterprises that can justify specific defensive capabilities and sustain them past the grant.
Geographies: Ukraine.
Who can apply: Ukrainian governmental authorities and critical-infrastructure state-owned enterprises vulnerable to cyber threats; one application per institution.
Funding amount: Up to USD 50,000 in-kind support per applicant (equipment, software, services; no cash).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Governance, Policy & Advocacy; SDG9, SDG16. Focus: critical-infrastructure cyber resilience.
Deadline: July 10, 2026.
CRDF is buying defensible cyber maturity for institutions that keep Ukraine running, so a shopping list will not persuade it. Tie every item to a named operational gap in your current IT and OT setup, map it to NIST and CIS frameworks, and favor U.S. or allied technology. Since the support is in-kind, spend your strongest language on how trained staff will maintain and build on the tools once the grant ends.
UNDP Grant for Integrity, Transparency and Information Resilience in Ukraine's Recovery and Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). *New!* *Closing soon!*
The United Nations Development Programme is opening a Call for Proposals for Ukrainian civil society organizations to strengthen integrity, transparency, and information resilience across the country's recovery. UNDP is channeling this money into anti-corruption work at a moment when perceived shortcomings in accountability can be turned into disinformation that erodes public trust in reconstruction. It wants to back practical initiatives: integrity frameworks and corruption risk tools, whistleblower-protection capacity in public institutions, a campaign making integrity relatable to citizens, and research into how corruption narratives are manipulated in the media. The four-lot design and the mandatory letter of institutional support signal that UNDP wants organizations already embedded with public bodies. The strongest fits are established Ukrainian nonprofits with a track record in anti-corruption, civic oversight, strategic communications, or media literacy.
Geographies: Ukraine.
Who can apply: Ukraine-registered nonprofit CSOs and NGOs with relevant thematic experience and at least three to five years of registration depending on lot.
Funding amount: Up to USD 80,000 per grant across four lots (total envelope approximately USD 290,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Governance, Policy & Advocacy; SDG16, SDG17. Focus: anti-corruption and information resilience.
Deadline: July 10, 2026.
UNDP is protecting public trust in reconstruction, so it is buying accountability work that actually reaches inside public bodies. The mandatory letter of support is the tell: pick the lot where your relationships are real and make that institutional access the spine of your case. Show a concrete tool or campaign that shifts behavior, and let your anti-corruption or media-literacy track record prove you can deliver it, not just describe it.
UNHCR Innovation Accelerator 2026, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). *New!* *Closing soon!*
UNHCR's Innovation Service is opening its Innovation Accelerator to organizations with a tested innovation ready to scale for forcibly displaced and stateless people. The agency is using the program to close the gap between pilots that work and solutions that reach system-level adoption, so the money stays deliberately catalytic while the real investment goes into partnership brokering, technical support, evidence, and access to UNHCR's networks. The design reveals what matters most: full proposals must be led or co-led by a UNHCR team or a refugee-led organization, making local ownership a condition rather than a preference. A thematically open first round followed by clustering lets the Service read where demand concentrates before committing. Selection rewards demonstrated proof of concept, concrete pathways to scale, strong partnership ecosystems, and plausible impact with age, gender, and diversity built in.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Refugee-led organizations, NGOs, UN agencies, academic and research institutions, private sector, development and community-based organizations, and UNHCR teams with a tested innovation ready to scale.
Funding amount: Up to 250,000 USD in exceptional cases (USD 250000), with most initiatives receiving lower catalytic support.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDG10, SDG16, SDG17. Focus: scaling proven refugee innovations.
Deadline: July 12, 2026.
UNHCR is buying scale, not novelty: it wants innovations that have already worked locally and can now reach whole protection systems, with affected communities holding the pen. Applicants who resonate lead with hard proof of concept and a credible partnership ecosystem, and put a refugee-led co-lead genuinely at the center. Show where your solution is ready to grow, and let that readiness anchor your expression of interest.
Mine Action Response to Support for the WAHDAT Interventions (CFP_833, UNDP-AFG-00833), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). *New!* *Closing soon!*
The United Nations Development Programme is inviting nongovernmental organizations to deliver a mine action response for its WAHDAT interventions in the western Afghan provinces of Herat and Farah. WAHDAT is a joint effort with three other UN agencies to help returnees, internally displaced people, and the communities hosting them rebuild after years of displacement. Clearing explosive ordnance and teaching people how to avoid it is the groundwork that lets families safely return to land, homes, and farms. Routing this through a single NGO responsible party, tied to specific target districts, signals that UNDP wants operators who already know the western region and can work inside a wider area-based recovery program. The strongest fits are established mine action organizations with proven capacity to operate safely in Afghanistan.
Geographies: Afghanistan.
Who can apply: NGOs with mine action capacity able to operate in Afghanistan's western region and registered in the UNDP Quantum Supplier Portal.
Funding amount: Not specified in the call package.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDG3, SDG10, SDG16. Focus: mine action for returnee recovery.
Deadline: July 13, 2026.
This grant sits inside a larger area-based recovery effort, so UNDP is buying a mine action partner who can slot cleanly into a multi-agency program in Herat and Farah. Show that you already know the western region and can coordinate with the other WAHDAT actors, not just clear ground in isolation. Let proven safe operating capacity in Afghanistan and your grasp of returnee movement anchor a proposal built for fit, not heroics.
Call for Emergency Support for Displaced Women and Girls in Iraq, UN Women. *New!* *Closing soon!*
UN Women is seeking a local implementing partner to deliver emergency and recovery support for women and girls caught in Iraq's layered displacement crisis. The funder is backing an integrated response that pairs protection, legal, and psychosocial services with livelihoods and economic security, so that safety and self-reliance advance together rather than in sequence. It wants to reach the most exposed people first: internally displaced women, returnees from Northeast Syria, Syrian refugees, women-headed households, and women with disabilities. By requiring survivor-centered delivery, measurable indicators, and a plan that outlasts the funding, UN Women is signaling that it wants durable local capacity, not a one-off intervention. The strongest fits are Iraqi civil society and women-led organizations with real protection and humanitarian experience, particularly those already rooted in Ninewa Governorate.
Geographies: Iraq.
Who can apply: Local Iraqi civil society and women-led organizations with protection, humanitarian and livelihoods experience, particularly in Ninewa Governorate.
Funding amount: USD 85,140 to USD 89,140 per proposal.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDG1, SDG5, SDG10, SDG16. Focus: integrated protection for displaced women.
Deadline: July 16, 2026.
UN Women is buying safety and self-reliance that move together, so a proposal that treats protection and livelihoods as separate tracks will miss the intent. Show how legal, psychosocial and economic support reinforce each other for the same women, and lead with your roots in Ninewa and your survivor-centered practice. The plan for durable local capacity after the funding ends is where a women-led applicant can genuinely stand out.
