The Urgent Action Fund Asia and Pacific (UAF A&P) is a feminist fund and the first regionally based, autonomously registered Urgent Action Fund in Asia and the Pacific. Covering 51 countries and territories, it was established in 2018 to respond to urgent needs faced by women and non-binary defenders. Since then, UAF A&P has provided more than 2,000 rapid response grants worth USD 9.4 million across 33 countries. Guided by feminist values, the fund strengthens the resilience of movements by offering urgent grants and strategic support that ensure defenders’ safety, wellbeing, and ability to continue their struggles. Its work is grounded in collaboration, trust-building, amplifying feminist voices, recognising lived experiences, and intentionally redistributing privilege, enabling it to respond with agility and contextual sensitivity to evolving risks and opportunities.

UAF A&P’s mission centres on resourcing resilience in unpredictable and politically volatile environments. By listening deeply to defenders and movements, the fund provides resources at moments of heightened risk while also investing in long-term protection and wellbeing. This includes creating safe and inclusive spaces, amplifying critical information, and practicing feminist models of leadership that prioritise care and adaptability. Through this approach, UAF A&P supports defenders who confront authoritarianism, protect land, water, and environmental rights, advance gender and sexual rights, uphold Indigenous and labour rights, defend freedom of expression, and demand justice and equality. By resourcing these struggles with urgency and empathy, the fund contributes to sustaining feminist movements that are shaping the future of the region.