The Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF Africa) is a feminist, pan-African rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations by resourcing African feminists, women’s human rights defenders, and their movements as an act of solidarity. Bold, responsive, and consistent, the fund works to ensure that African feminist organising is visible, resourced, and protected. UAF Africa advocates for funding partners to recognise and actively invest in pan-African feminist activism and urgent situations requiring rapid response. With its grounding in feminist philanthropic principles, the fund is attuned to the contexts in which defenders live and work, and is agile in addressing their priorities and urgent needs. Its support contributes to holistic security, wellbeing, and move.

As a pan-African feminist fund, UAF Africa provides rapid response grants to activists, organisations, and movements working to protect, promote, and uphold women’s human rights across the continent. With staff based in Africa’s four sub-regions, it offers both financial and strategic support to defenders and groups confronting systemic oppression, challenging the status quo, and catalysing social change. By resourcing movements that defend land, labour, and environmental rights, resist authoritarianism, uphold freedom of expression, advance sexual and gender rights, and demand equality and justice, UAF Africa amplifies the voices of women’s human rights defenders. In doing so, the fund contributes to sustaining the resilience, safety, and transformative leadership of African feminist movements.