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- Arab Human Rights Fund
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- FAIR-fund - FAIR Fund is an international organization that supports and engages young women in civic activism to better their lives and communities.
- Fundsnet: Fundsnet Online Services is a privately owned web site created in 1996 for the purpose of providing nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet. Links are provided for government funding and grants information, grant writing resources, international grants and funders, national, state and regional funders and foundations.
- Georg Forster Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
- Global Development Network, The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition: is the largest international contest for research on development. In the past, they have supported multi-disciplinary research on a range of issues including pro-poor market reform, governance and development, HIV/AIDS and the delivery of health systems; reforms, interest groups and civil society; conflict, human security and migration; and the role of institutions for development in the context of globalization.
- Global Fund for Women
- Grand Challenges Explorations
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation funds scholarly research in the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. The Foundation has two grant programs: one for holders of a Ph.D., MD, or the equivalent, to conduct scholarly investigations; another, for graduate students to fund the final writing phase of their Ph.D. dissertations.
- Hivos Fund - Provides financial and political support for specific programme activities or for organisational operations in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and South-Eastern Europe. Focus areas include economy, environment & sustainable development, human rights, HIV/AIDS, gender, arts, and information and communication technology.
- Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers. The Alexander von Humbolt Foundation (AvH)
- International Human Rights Funders Group, Funders Directory
- Mama Cash
- Maypole Fund,
The Maypole Fund resources imaginative, non-violent activities by women for the benefit of women and to further world peace with justice and environmental safety. They give grants of up to £750.
- Ms. Foundation for Women: The Ms. Foundation for Women funds areas of economic security; health and safety; girls, young women and leadership. They also support organizing and public policy advocacy work that cuts across these issue areas.
- Open Society Institute, The Women's Program: The Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI) works to promote women’s human rights and gender equality as central to building open societies. OSI's Women’s Program invites proposals to support innovative initiatives that link women’s rights strategies with other rights strategies, raising awareness about women’s multiple discrimination.
- Red Ribbon Award
- The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP): The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) provides opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide.
- The International Engagement Awards: The aim of this award is to strengthen the capacity of researchers and communicators in developing countries to facilitate public engagement with health research. Grants of up to £30 000 are available, for projects lasting a maximum of three years. First deadline for applications is 25 April 2008.
- Trust Fund to End VAW Requests for Grant Applications: The UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women is accepting applications for its 11th grant cycle (2006) related to one of the following areas of work: (1) implementation of existing laws, policies and plans of action to address violence against women; and (2) reducing the twin pandemics of HIV/AIDS and violence against women.
- United Nations Democracy Fund Second Round of Funding - Gender: UNDEF was established in July 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund. Its primary purpose is to promote democracy. UNDEF funds projects that build and strengthen democratic institutions, promote human rights, and ensure the participation of all groups in democratic processes.
- UNIFEM- The Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women
- United Nations Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Wallace Global Fund, Rolling Deadline: Population pressures exacerbate many of the fundamental obstacles to sustainable development: degradation of natural resources, income disparity, gender inequality and poor maternal and child health. The Fund believes that we can uphold women's human rights by expanding their reproductive health choices, thereby reducing unwanted childbearing and improving the lives of women and their families.
- World Bank-Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund - Education Grants for Women from Developing Countries
- Arab Women's Fund & Mahfoutha Award
- African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
- African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), Ghana: The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), established in June 2000, is the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making organisation supporting the work of local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations working for women’s empowerment and rights.
- Heinrich Böll Foundation -Gender Programme for Southern Africa,
stated objectives include "To contribute towards building the research base within the region that will inform the respective advocacy initiatives on violence against women and economic justice."
- Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)- human rights and democracy building programme, " the realization in the region's countries and communities of women's rights to access resources; to participate in decision making; to reproductive health and choice, including to meaningfully protect themselves from HIV/AIDS; to inheritance, to non-discrimination in the family, workplace, from credit institutions, etc; and against gender violence and femicide; continues to be a critical challenge. Children's rights are also an area of rising concern, with shocking statistics on, and trends in, child sexual abuse, denial of basic education, etc. The programme places a deliberate emphasis on strengthening interventions in the areas of women's and children's rights."
- Wellcome Trust initiative on Strengthening Research Capacity in Africa: An initiative that aims to build a critical mass of sustainable local research capacity across Africa, through strengthening African universities and research institutions.
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SVRI
Gender and Health Research Unit
Medical Research Council, South Africa
Private Bag x385, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa
1 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria
Tel: +27 21 339-8527
Fax: +27 21 339-8525
E-mail: svri@mrc.ac.za
Last updated:
18 June, 2008
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