Projects to support to address Marine Pollution and Waste Management Challenges

Funding Organization: The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) Call for Proposals under the Advancing Circular Economy (ACE) Facility  Funding focus: Projects that promote and apply practical circular economy principles to minimize and/or prevent waste from entering the marine environment or projects that promote and apply practical circular economy principles to remove marine litter and consider processes…

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Women, Peace and Security

Funding Organization: Government of the Netherlands (FemFocus 2026–2030) Funding focus: strengthening women’s leadership in conflict prevention and mediation, ensuring meaningful participation and influence of women in formal and informal discussions and decision-making on peace and security, and supporting survivors and victims of CRSV, corresponding with the pillars of Participation and Protection in Security Council Resolution on…

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Combating violence against women and supporting women human rights defenders

Funding Organization: Government of the Netherlands (FemFocus 2026–2030) Funding focus: Pursues the policy objectives to combat violence against women and girls, provide treatment and support to victims, and support women’s-rights defenders and women human-rights defenders. Eligibility Criteria: Civil society organisations can apply from West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East and North…

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Encouraging women’s entrepreneurship:

Funding Organization: Government of the Netherlands (FemFocus 2026–2030) Funding focus: Supports women’s entrepreneurship as part of a sustainable economic agenda, particularly in Africa where the share of women entrepreneurs is relatively high. This instrument pursues the policy objectives to strengthen women’s entrepreneurship at the individual level and to remove socio-cultural and institutional barriers at the…

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Transparency & Governance Reporting Grants

Funding Organization: Pulitzer Center  Funding focus: reporting initiative focused on the systems, organizations, and people that destabilize countries, erode democracies, and enable corruption. Value for cross-border and collaborative reporting, data-driven projects, and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. Eligibility Criteria: Open to freelance and staff journalists worldwide. Applications from the Global South and seek reporting from Africa, Latin…

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The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling

Funding Organization: The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the ONE Campaign, and the Elliott family. Funding focus: Journalism for Excellence in African Storytelling. Eligibility Criteria: English-speaking journalists based in Africa who work in print, broadcast, or online news media, and have no more than ten years of journalism experience. The award entries must represent groundbreaking journalistic work published between…

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Global Media Defence Fund 2025

Funding Organization: United Nations Global Marketplace Funding focus:  Enhancing protection mechanisms, ensuring access to justice, and reducing impunity for crimes against journalists. Eligibility Criteria:  exclusively to not-for-profit organisations, including non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, foundations, professional associations and intergovernmental bodies. To be eligible, applicants must have been legally registered and active for at least two years…

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The Avery Dennison Foundation grantmaking

Funding Organization: Avery Dennison Foundation (ADF) Funding focus: Focused on areas of education access; environmental sustainability; secure livelihoods; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); and disaster relief. Supports and builds partnerships with nonprofit/non-governmental organizations in communities across the globe, with an emphasis on geographies of high need align with the UN SDGs.  Eligibility Criteria: NGOs that demonstrate…

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The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation

Funding Organization:The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation Funding focus: Conservation, Climate Change, Food & Sustainable Agriculture, Health, etc Eligibility Criteria: Most types of organizations that can provide evidence of their non-governmental status or charitable purpose are eligible to apply, Grant Limit: USD 25,000-USD 50,000 per year range Deadline: Each Year Concept Note. 1 Jan, 2025…

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Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund 

Funding Organization:Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund  Funding focus: Strengthen community land rights and reduce illegal or unplanned deforestation and sustainably manage forests by incorporating GFW into forest monitoring strategies Eligibility Criteria: Civil society organizations, NGOs and individuals around the world legally constituted as non-profit and non-governmental; • Have a total annual budget greater than…

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