Applications Invited for 2025 Call for Proposals: Resourcing Resilience - Investing in Civil Society Leadership to End Violence against Women

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About the Organization

For nearly 30 years, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls (UN Trust Fund) has been the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to ending all forms of violence against women and girls. Administered by UN Women on behalf of the United Nations system, the UN Trust Fund has supported 725 initiatives across 140 countries and territories, providing a total of USD 253 million in grants to prevent and end violence against women and girls.

The UN Trust Fund is more than just a donor. It also plays a key role in supporting and amplifying the work of civil society to end violence against women and girls around the world. Rooted in feminist values and guided by the knowledge and experience of civil society, the UN Trust Fund supports local, inclusive, and sustainable initiatives.

Through long-term, flexible, and core funding, technical support, advocacy, capacity development, and connections to a global movement, the UN Trust Fund enables organizations to drive meaningful and lasting change. Its support has reached millions of women and girls and contributed to stronger laws, improved services, and changes in social attitudes and behaviors.

About the Grant

Civil society organizations on the frontlines of ending violence against women and girls are facing intense pressure: shrinking civil space, rising resistance and widening funding gaps. At the same time, demand for life-saving services and prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is greater than ever. This Call for Proposals responds to the urgent need for long-term, flexible funding and wraparound support that enables civil society and women’s organisations to remain resilient and lead change.

The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to provide four-year grants - including core and flexible funds - to civil society organizations working to address violence against women and girls, especially those servicing structurally marginalised groups1 . This Call seeks to strengthen the resilience and sustainability of frontline organizations so they can deliver critical, essential services, advance prevention and drive transformative change, even in the face of growing challenges.

The UN Trust Fund welcomes proposals that contribute to one or more of the following outcomes:

• Improving access for women and girls to essential, specialist, safe, adequate and quality multisectoral services
• Improving prevention of violence against women and girls through changes in behaviours, practices and attitudes
• Increasing effectiveness of legislation, policies, national action plans and accountability systems to prevent and end VAW/G

Grant Length: All grants will be for four years.

Grant Size: Between US $150,000 and US $800,000.

• Small organizations can allocate up to 18% of the grant to flexible funding, in addition to contingency and indirect costs
• Large organizations can allocate up to 12% of the grant to flexible funding, in addition to contingency and indirect costs

Eligibility

Countries and/or territories listed in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Assistance Committee’s (OECD DAC) list of official development assistance (ODA) recipients.

Civil society organizations with priority to:

• Women’s and girls’ rights organizations
• Women-led organizations
• Constituent-led organizations
• Small organizations

How to Apply

Complete and submit your Concept Note application in English, French, or Spanish through the UN Trust Fund’s Online Grants Management System: https://grants.untf.unwomen.org/

Deadline: 19 November 2025

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