The United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a Call for Proposals to support local, grassroots, women and young women’s civil society organizations in the Philippines to enhance their active participation and leadership in climate security efforts in conflict settings.
This Call for Proposals aims to support projects through programmatic funding that strengthen women’s leadership and participation in gender-responsive humanitarian preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in the context of climate insecurity and climate injustice, and that enhance social cohesion, peacebuilding, and the economic empowerment of women and young women in relation to climate security and climate justice. The Call for Proposals is also open to support local women’s and young women’s rights organizations working in these areas through institutional funding.
WPHF seeks to fund qualifying local organizations in through the following funding streams:
- Programmatic funding from 30,000 USD to 200,000 USD: To finance programmatic activities of CSOs aimed at:
1. Enhanced access of women and girls in crisis and conflict settings to inclusive, gender-responsive, and life-saving humanitarian response and services, in line with WPHF Impact Area 2. In the context of this Call for Proposals, this includes activities that improve women’s and girls’ access to inclusive, gender-responsive, and life-saving humanitarian response and services in the context of climate-related humanitarian crises and insecurity.
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2. Enhanced social cohesion, peacebuilding and economic empowerment of women and young women in crisis and conflict settings, in line with WPHF Impact Area 4. In the context of this Call for Proposals, this includes activities that promote women’s leadership and participation in green socio-economic recovery and political decision-making to reduce climate-related conflicts and injustice.
- Institutional funding from 2,500 USD to 30,000 USD: To reinforce the institutional capacity of women’s rights and women-led organizations working on climate-related conflict prevention and/or climate-related economic and political decision-making in the Philippines to ensure they are able to sustain themselves and strengthen their impact.
How to apply
- Online: Applicants can submit online using this online form, including uploading the proposal template and registration certificate. Email submissions are not eligible.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 December 2026
An information session will be organized with prospective applicants ONLINE on 19 November 2026 online. To register, please contact vanessavianca.pallarco@unwomen.org by 16 November 2026.
Questions about this CfP can be sent to gilbert.guevarra@unwomen.org or vanessavianca.pallarco@unwomen.org no later than 15 December 2026. Please allow a minimum of 48 hours for responses to any questions.
Please download the application package based on the funding type you are applying to:
Institutional Funding
ET/OU
Humanitarian and Crisis Response
Peacebuilding and Recovery
