Access to timely and relevant funding information is critical for the sustainability and impact of African NGOs. @AfricanNGOs compiles a monthly roundup of funding opportunities tailored for African NGOs. The carefully curated list for October and November 2025 includes grant calls, open proposals, fellowships, and other funding initiatives supporting African NGOs’ diverse missions and priorities.

Transformative Capacity Development Programme
Issued by: European Union, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and COSPE
Focus areas: NGOs in Zimbabwe
Value: €10 000 to 60 000
Deadline: 1 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2pacarbw

Climate Change and Health in East and Southern Africa
Issued by: Amref Health Africa
Focus areas: Innovative projects on climate change and health in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda
Value: US$50 000 to 250 000
Deadline: 15 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/yv9hw442

Gauteng NPO Call for Proposals 2026/7
Issued by: Gauteng Department of Social Development
Focus areas: NGOs in Gauteng, South Africa
Value: Not specified
Deadline: 15 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/ycxxanxd

NGO Support Initiative
Issued by: development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC)
Focus areas: NGOs in Nigeria focusing on women’s health, GBV presentation and social justice
Value: N5 million
Deadline: 15 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2jppc2hx

Climate Innovation Challenge
Issued by: UNICEF Venture Fund
Focus areas: Climate and health, and climate adaptation, resilience, and disaster risk management
Value: US$100 000
Deadline: 21 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/3veae5zs

Commonwealth Foundation Open Grants
Issued by: Commonwealth Foundation
Focus areas: Registered NGOs in Commonwealth member countries focussing on health justice, climate justice or freedom of expression
Value: Up to £60 000 over two years
Deadline: 23 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2pjywvha

Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme
Issued by: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Focus areas: Technical and financial support to NGOs for projects focussing on community-based conservation of threatened ecosystems and species, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, and food security, low-carbon energy access with co-benefits, local-to-global coalitions for chemicals and waste management, and water conservation.
Value: US$5 000 (planning grant) & up to 50 000 (full grant)
Deadline: 24 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/533fh2r6

Strengthening Global Worker Power
Issued by: Democracy at Work Fund
Focus areas: Frontline organisations building resilience and the capacity of workers’ organizations
Value: US$10 000 to 80 000 per grant
Deadline: 27 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2v3ywrrf

Peacebuilding, Inclusion and Resilience in Sudan
Issued by: Qudra Fund
Focus areas: Small to medium-sized NGOs working in Sudan registered in Uganda, Kenya and other regional countries. CSOs registered in Sudan are eligible to apply only in partnership with an organisation registered in one of these countries
Value: Up to €80 000 in project funding for 9 to 18 months
Deadline: 30 October 2025
https://apply.qudrafund-sudan.de

Education Policy and Practice
Issued by: Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) and Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL)
Focus areas: Research that strengthens Foundational Learning (FL) and helps shape education policy and practice in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zambia
Value: US$15 000
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/57bkezpp

Preventing Violent Extremism in Somalia
Issued by: Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
Focus areas: Strengthening reconciliation and conflict-prevention mechanisms, expanding socio-economic opportunities for young people and women, promoting positive messaging, and enhancing the role of religious leaders in preventing violent extremism
Value: Up to US$1 million over a period of 24 to 28 months
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/4np2wnfc

Small Arts Grants
Issued by: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Directorate of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture
Focus areas: NGOs involved in arts and culture in Gqeberha, Kariega and Despatch in South Africa
Value: Up to ZAR250 000
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2fdh77jr

Terre de Femmes Award 2026
Issued by: Yves Rocher Foundation
Focus areas: The Tree, Guardian of Life!, focussing on initiatives that protect and celebrate trees
Value: €10 000 grant per project
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/yjzfj87a

Whitley Awards 2026
Issued by: Whitley Fund for Nature
Focus areas: Conservationists who are leading wildlife conservation projects in the Global South
Value: £50 000
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/5ayduak4

8th ISDAO Regional Call for Proposals
Issued by: Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)
Focus areas: LGBTQI-led groups, organisations and networks in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo.
Value: US$5 000 to $30 000 per annum
Deadline: 31 October 2025
https://tinyurl.com/52jwcczy

Social Impact Incentives for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Enterprises
Issued by: Aqua for All
Focus areas: WASH enterprises in LMICs aiming to scale impact and attract investment
Value: €150 000 to 350 000
Deadline: 2 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/mv3eeutz

Biodiversity Information for Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Issued by: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Focus areas: Projects that address critical gaps in biodiversity data by mobilising data, promoting its application in research and policy-making, and building sustainable networks and communities of practice committed to sharing open data on biodiversity
Value: €30 000 to 60 000
Deadline: 3 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/yc3mfe42

Educational Opportunity for Children and Young People
Issued by: Educational Opportunity Foundation
Focus areas: Improves the quality, sustainability and access to education for young people up to the age of 25 within marginalised and deprived communities worldwide
Value: £30 000 to 60 000
Deadline: 5 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/y33x235n

Women’s Leadership and Political Participation
Issued by: UN Women
Focus areas: NGOs and women’s rights organisations
Value: US$45 000 to 150 000
Deadline: 10 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2efux5zr

Human Rights Defenders
Issued by: Norad – Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Focus areas: NGOs that protect and strengthen human rights defenders, focussing on ensuring safety and resilience for defenders at risk, promoting laws, accountability and rule of law principles, and amplifying defenders’ voices and influence
Value: NOK 600 million for 2026 to 2029
Deadline: 18 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/2pzyzjzt

Resourcing Resilience – Investing in Civil Society Leadership to End Violence against Women and Girls
Issued by: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls
Focus areas: Strengthening resilience of feminist and civil society organizations, and addressing violence against structurally marginalized women and girls
Value: Up to US$800 000
Deadline: 19 November 2025
https://tinyurl.com/3ku45u4z

AFNet Flexible Grants
Issued by: African Women for Change Network (AFNet)
Focus areas: Initiatives led by women leaders and organisations dedicated to creating positive change in their communities
Value: US5 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/hpn4bur3

BenueAID Community Development Initiative Discretionary Grants
Issued by: BenueAID
Focus areas: NGOs involved in humanitarian interventions in Benue State, Nigeria
Value: Not specified
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/mr2ymjjz

Early-Stage Social Enterprises
Issued by: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Focus areas: Social impact organisations solving urgent global problems with scalable and sustainable approaches
Value: Up to US$300 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/bdbncswh

Education Access, Environmental Sustainability and Secure Livelihoods
Issued by: Avery Dennison Foundation
Focus areas: NGOs tackling challenges in high-need communities
Value: US$50 000 to 100 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/44j9jz8d

Fostering Community Philanthropy
Issued by: Global Fund for Community Foundations
Focus areas: Strengthen the efforts, durability and effectiveness of community philanthropy organisations
Value: US$7 000 to 20 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/73ubmun7

Friends of Liberia Small Grants Programme
Issued by: Friends of Liberia
Focus areas: Liberian-led NGOs working on community development projects
Value: US$3 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/uu7f24ee

Rapid Response Fund
Issued by: Frontline AIDS
Focus areas: Supports community-led action on HIV-related human rights challenges, including stigma, discrimination and threats of violence
Value: Up to US$15 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/4wktp2uw

Rapid Response Grants
Issued by: Urgent Action Fund Africa
Focus areas: Interventions that advance womn’s human rights
Value: Up to US$15 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/49cy49pa

Rufford Small Grants
Issued by: Rufford Foundation
Focus areas: Nature conservation projects in emerging or developing economy countries
Value: £7 000 to 18 000
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
https://tinyurl.com/bdjm2hwv

The funding landscape is dynamic and fast-changing, which is why @AfricanNGOs will update this list continuously to include new opportunities as they arise.

I encourage African NGOs and their partners to visit this page regularly and share it widely within their networks.

If you know of additional funding opportunities that @AfricanNGOs should include in this list, or if your organisation offers funding support for African NGOs, please get in touch.

Inquiries: David Barnard, barnard.davidb@gmail.com

*Disclaimer: These funding opportunities are issued by specific organisations and @AfricanNGOs is not responsible for the accuracy of the information.