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— ABOUT US


FORCES OF FEMINISM

Twenty years ago, activists around the world echoed the need for a fund that
poured into the movement during critical threats and unanticipated moments of
advocacy. Responding to this call, the first seeds of Urgent Action Fund were
sown.

HERSTORY



URGENT ACTION FUND
 FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM


URGENT ACTION FUND
AFRICA


URGENT ACTION FUND
ASIA & PACIFIC


URGENT ACTION FUND
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF-FA)

Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism is a feminist fund that protects,
strengthens and sustains women and transgender human rights defenders at
critical moments. ‘Rapid Response Grant-making,’ ‘Advocacy and
Alliance-Building’ and the ‘Global Consortium of Urgent Action Funds’ are the
three ways we intervene quickly when women and transgender human rights
defenders are facing threats. Urgent Action Fund partners with women’s movements
across the world to create cultures of justice, equality and peace.



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Urgent Action Fund - Africa (UAF-Africa)

Urgent Action Fund-Africa is a pan-African and feminist Fund. Using a rapid
response grant making (RRG) model, the Fund supports unanticipated,
time-sensitive, innovative, and bold initiatives. These enable African feminists
and women’s rights organisations to seize windows of opportunity, fracture
patriarchy, amplify their voices, enhance their visibility, and become
significant actors who can influence policy and law while shaping discourse.
This way, UAF-Africa fills a unique grant making niche within the African
feminist movement, providing stepping stones to activists as they use their
agency and resilience to achieve social, economic, political and environmental
justice..



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Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, Asia and Pacific (UAF A&P)

Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, Asia and Pacific is a regional
feminist fund that strives to protect, strengthen and sustain women and
non-binary human rights defenders across nearly 53 countries and sub-regions of
Asia and the Pacific. We build the resilience of activists and their movements
across two regions through innovating our programs, mobilizing resources, and
knowledge production and dissemination.



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Urgent Action Fund- Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF-LAC)

Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, is a
regional feminist fund that contributes to the sustainability and the capacity
strengthening of activists, their organizations and movements by providing
access to flexible, strategic and timely resources to respond to moments of
risk, crisis and opportunity. 
We place holistic feminist protection and CARE at the center of our work with
women, non-binary and trans human rights defenders, our team, and we raise
awareness among the philanthropic community about the importance of supporting
cultural practices of care.



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STRENGTHENING FOUNDATION


HERSTORY

The Urgent Action Sister Funds are a global consortium of feminist funds that
provide rapid and responsive support for women, trans, and non-binary  human
rights defenders in moments of need, sustaining feminist activism by supporting
the resistance and resilience of frontline defenders. Grounded in our Sisterhood
Feminist Principles of Philanthropy, we have a political commitment to share
power and work together towards our common vision of sustaining feminist
movements. Feminist activists around the world seeded Urgent Action Funds to
become a nourishing ecosystem that supports the resilience of women and
transgender human rights defenders through rapid response grants across the
world.

WE ARE collaborative, co-equal and geographically distinct. Beginning in 1997
with UAF-for Feminist Activism (which now covers the Balkans, the Caucuses,
Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the U.S., and
Canada), the Sisterhood grew out of the priorities of local feminist movements
to include three additional and independent UAFs. UAF-Africa formed in 2001,
UAF-Latin America & the Caribbean in 2009, and UAF-Asia & Pacific in 2017. Now
the Urgent Action Sister Funds (UAFs) are four independent but regional feminist
funds that work interdependently at the global level. The UAFs represent the
only global consortium of regionally rooted feminist funds that provide rapid
response support to women, trans, and non-binary Human Rights Defenders.

> We center collective care and protection in our feminist crisis response. Our
> care practice is that rapid response grants support not only defenders but
> also dependents and loved ones, recognizing that defenders exist within
> families, communities, and ecosystems.
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> With more than 25 years of rapid response grantmaking under our belt we have
> learned, adapted and evolved our grant making strategies to suit our
> constituencies. Our model of Rapid Response Grantmaking (RRG) protects and
> advances the civil, political and social rights of women and LBTI people, and
> invests in social justice movements including environmental, feminist, anti-
> corruption, land rights, peace and youth. As the Urgent Action Funds, we are
> flexible in our grant making processes and accept online, mobile and SMS grant
> applications to facilitate rapid response grants movement. Combining our
> holistic approach with our international network, we implement real time
> grant-making with accompaniment support, knowledge production and activities.
> This facilitates women’s leadership, improves safety for women’s and LBTIQ+
> movements while amplifying the voices and experiences of grassroots movements
> for equality, peace and justice. Equipped with autonomous models that are
> designed to consider the requirements of each region, we continue building
> stronger webs of support for women and transgender rights defenders together,
> across the world.



GROUNDED VALUES


URGENT ACTION FUNDS PRINCIPLES

With a vision to scale our collective impact, we developed the UAF Sisterhood
Working Principles to breathe life into our shared commitment to strengthening
coordination with each other. While each of the funds have their own guiding
values, these Principles are meant to guide staff in their work and relations
with each other, and with partners.

The current version of our Principles is a product of nearly two years of
consultation to reflect the insights of UAF’s staff and leadership. They remain
work in progress and will evolve as we persistently reflect on our practice and
collaborations.

WORKING WITH A SOUL

Our sisterhood honors our shared humanity, love, and solidarity. As an
embodiment of our principles, we prioritize care and wellness as a political
act. Working mindfully commits to tending care to how we work, just as much as
the results of our work. We care for and love ourselves and each other.

COLLECTIVE VISIONING AND EXPERIMENTATION

Our sisterhood was born to respond to urgent needs with resilience, courage and
a bold vision. Learning, action, and experimentation are all critical components
of our collective practice as we work to change ourselves and the work we do
together.

CELEBRATE, RESPECT AND VALUE DIVERSITY

Our sisterhood is designed to celebrate and value our differences — region,
language, political and cultural context. Our strength is rooted in these
differences and we see them as essential to our work. We value the knowledge and
approaches that each sister offers the sisterhood.

POWER SHARING, INTERDEPENDENCE AND CO-RESPONSIBILITY

We are sisters that work to develop trust, share power, co-create and share
responsibility of our sisterhood and our work together. As an interdependent
sisterhood, we recognize the importance of both: shared decision-making grounded
in our vision and honoring each sister’s power and autonomy.


MAPPING ALLIANCES



RESOURCES

Joint Statements
Media
Videos
Publications

Check out the resources pages of each sister fund to learn about their work in
each region.

You can access resources, publications, and materials here:


URGENT ACTION
FUND


URGENT ACTION FUND
AFRICA


URGENT ACTION FUND
ASIA & PACIFIC


URGENT ACTION FUND
LATIN AMERICA

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