Learn more about the work of the Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund

We support women civil society partners in countries facing dire peace, security and humanitarian challenges.

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, WPHF is channeling urgently-needed financing to grassroots women’s organizations working to sustain their operations and respond to COVID-19 and its urgent gender dimensions.

Bangladesh

WPHF is mobilizing new resources to support women’s organizations in Bangladesh to address the urgent humanitarian challenges facing Rohingya refugee women and girls and to enhance their participation in peacebuilding and recovery across the country.

Burundi

In Burundi, WPHF is channeling rapid and flexible funding to civil society organizations mobilizing to enhance women's participation in decision-making and conflict prevention, and promote their economic empowerment and recovery.

Central African Republic

In the Central African Republic, the WPHF aims to empower CSOs to promote gender inclusion in local peacebuilding initiatives, help accelerate economic recovery, and contribute to women and girls’ resilience and leadership in order to help facilitate the country’s social cohesion and political stability.

Chad

WPHF is mobilizing new resources for women's organizations in Chad working to ensure accountability on WPS commitments, increase women’s leadership in humanitarian planning and response, and protect the safety, security, mental health and rights of women and girls.

Colombia

In Colombia, WPHF is enabling women’s meaningful participation in the implementation of the gender provisions of the country's peace agreement, ensuring women’s active engagement in peacebuilding and recovery efforts while supporting women's response to COVID-19 on the front lines.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the DRC, WPHF aims to ensure the financing and coordination of local actors that promote women as key actors in ending violence against women, protecting human rights, leading humanitarian response and building economic resilience toward sustainable peace.

Ethiopia

WPHF is supporting grassroots women’s organizations in Ethiopia working to enhance women’s meaningful participation in humanitarian and crisis response and the protection of women and girls.

Haiti

In Haiti, WPHF is supporting local women's organizations to end violence against women and girls, protect human rights and respond to COVID-19 on the front lines.

Iraq

WPHF is supporting local civil society organizations in Iraq to increase women’s and girls’ participation in conflict-prevention efforts and enhance the inclusiveness and gender-responsiveness of humanitarian action and crisis response.

Jordan

WPHF is supporting local civil society organizations in Jordan to increase the participation of women and girls in humanitarian response, as well as in humanitarian planning and programming.

Lebanon

WPHF is channeling rapid financing to local civil society organizations in Lebanon to strengthen their capacities and enhance women’s participation in response, recovery, and peacebuilding processes in the wake of Beirut’s August 2020 port explosion.

Liberia

In Liberia, WPHF is supporting women to contribute to peace by financing local CSOs working to end gender-based violence, promote women's rights and advance gender equality in conflict settings.

Malawi

In Malawi, WPHF is supporting women to build sustainable peace by financing a range of local CSO projects that aim to end sexual and gender-based violence, protect women’s rights and advance gender equality in settings of conflict and crises.

Mali

In Mali, WPHF is supporting women to contribute significantly to the restoration of peace by financing projects that significantly enhance women's participation in peacebuilding and economic recovery.

Myanmar

The WPHF aims to fund civil society actors from ethnic women’s organizations and broad-based civil society peace forums, providing critical platforms where women can effectively influence their country’s peacebuilding agenda.

Niger

WPHF is supporting local women’s organizations in Niger to enhance the meaningful participation of women and girls in conflict resolution and prevention efforts.

Nigeria

In Nigeria, WPHF is supporting women to contribute to lasting peace by financing a range of local CSO projects that aim to end sexual and gender-based violence, protect women’s rights and respond to COVID-19 in settings of conflict and crises.

Palestine

In Palestine, the WPHF aims to increase the participation of women in political decision making, give voice to their protection concerns, address and prevent some of the root causes of their vulnerability to violence and build their leadership and resilience in local communities.

Papua New Guinea

In Papua New Guinea, WPHF is supporting women’s CSOs working to end violence against women and promote human rights and gender equality in crisis and conflict settings.

Philippines

WPHF is strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations in the Philippines working at the forefront of peace, security and humanitarian action — promoting women’s participation in conflict prevention and response, and supporting them in the registration process as legal entities in the country.

South Sudan

WPHF is strengthening the institutional capacity of grassroots organizations in South Sudan to increase women’s meaningful participation in COVID-19 response and enhance women’s participation in peace processes.

Sudan

In Sudan, WPHF is channeling urgently-needed financing to grassroots women’s organizations working to sustain their operations and respond to COVID-19 and its unique gender dimensions.

Syria

WPHF is supporting local and grassroots civil society organizations in Syria mobilizing to enhance the leadership of women and girls in humanitarian planning and response processes in the wake of the February 2023 earthquake.

The Pacific: Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Tuvalu

WPHF is supporting local organizations across the Pacific working to mainstream gender response into emergency response and enhance the protection of women and girls.

Uganda

In Uganda, WPHF is financing local civil society organizations mobilizing to end sexual and gender-based violence, promote women's rights, advance gender equality, and respond to COVID-19 in conflict and crisis settings.

Ukraine

WPHF is rapidly mobilizing flexible institutional and programmatic funding to local civil society organizations and women’s activists in Ukraine and Moldova working to address the urgent needs of women refugees and IDPs and protect women and girls affected by the conflict against sexual and gender-based violence.

Yemen

In Yemen, WPHF is filling crucial funding gaps for local women's organizations, supporting them to strengthen the political and socio-economic participation of women and girls in forced displacement.

We have a wide range of countries eligible for support.

See our eligible countries