In Focus: 28th Grant Giving Cycle
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) announced today USD 11 million in grants to 19 organizations implementing initiatives to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls across 19 countries and territories.
These grants, awarded under the 2023 Call for Proposals, will support women’s rights and civil society organizations working in humanitarian settings, protracted conflicts and other diverse contexts where women's and girl’s rights have been restricted and anti-rights movements have gained momentum.
The UN Trust Fund's 2023 Call for Proposals generated unprecedented global interest, with 2,889 applications from organizations spanning 130 countries seeking over USD 1.5 billion in funding. In response, the UN Trust Fund awarded grants under both the 27th cycle (2024) and the 28th cycle (2025).
Bold approaches
The new portfolio of Cycle 28 grantee partners includes innovative and bold approaches to addressing violence against women, each tailored to the unique needs of local contexts.
For instance, in Cambodia, Klahaan Organization will lead one of the first national women-led participatory research initiatives on technology-facilitated gender-based violence to gather reliable evidence and drive advocacy efforts.
In Serbia, FemPlatz will employ social hackathons to foster collaboration and create opportunities for women, activists and local communities. This will equip them with the skills and space to design safety solutions, strengthen their leadership and engagement in decision-making processes.
Across South Africa, Honduras and Indonesia, Just Associates (JASS) will mobilize efforts to empower underserved women and girls, build women’s collective power and alliances, and drive lasting, transformative change for all women and girls.
Crisis-affected women and girls
The 2023 Call for Proposals offered applicants the possibility to submit proposals under a Special Funding Window addressing violence against crisis-affected women and girls. Initiatives under this window address various forms of violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and gender-based violence in refugee or displaced persons camps. Three organizations in Yemen, Ethiopia, and DRC were awarded USD 2.8 million under this window. Though across the whole new cohort of grantees, 26% of our new partners are providing life-saving prevention and response interventions in crisis settings.
Ending all forms of violence
Our 2025 new cohort of grantees (Cycle 28) primarily focus on preventing and ending sexual harassment and violence in public spaces and/or institutions (47%), violence against the girl child (42%), sexual violence by non-partners (37%), and intimate partner violence (32%). Additionally, two initiatives specifically address technology-facilitated gender-based violence, a distinct form of violence introduced for the first time in the 2023 Call for Proposals.
Leaving no woman or girl behind
The new portfolio of selected grantee partners prioritizes structurally marginalized women and girls, often using intersectional approaches to prevent and address forms of violence against women and girls living with HIV/AIDS, migrant women and girls, self-identified sex workers, women and girls with disabilities, and lesbian/bisexual/trans women and girls.
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