The Urgent Action Fund Africa supports African Women's Human Rights Defenders, their organisations, collectives and movements to take actions that sustain their work and themselves before, during and after urgent situations.
UAF-Africa is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity.
They are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and women’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, UAF-Africa is bold and courageous, proactive and responsive, creative and rigorous, curious, alert and agile, imaginative and grounded, consistent and reliable.
Their area of expertise is their deep and ever-evolving knowledge, skill and experience in:
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The contexts in which womn human rights defenders live, organise, work and do their activism
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Urgent situations and urgent action
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Collective care and protection
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Feminist philanthropy
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Movement building
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The Urgent Action Fund Africa supports African Women's Human Rights Defenders, their organisations, collectives and movements to take actions that sustain their work and themselves before, during and after urgent situations.
UAF-Africa is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity.
They are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and women’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, UAF-Africa is bold and courageous, proactive and responsive, creative and rigorous, curious, alert and agile, imaginative and grounded, consistent and reliable.
Their area of expertise is their deep and ever-evolving knowledge, skill and experience in:
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The contexts in which womn human rights defenders live, organise, work and do their activism
-
Urgent situations and urgent action
-
Collective care and protection
-
Feminist philanthropy
-
Movement building