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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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$100K–$5M (program-dependent)
UN Women's Africa regional office runs economic empowerment programs spanning transforming care economies, gender-responsive climate action, and women's participation in the world of work. Operates through country offices and partners across Sub-Saharan Africa. Active grant calls for CSOs in multiple countries in 2026.
Program Grants
Project-based funding for women's economic empowerment programs
Small Grants for CSOs
Targeted grants for civil society organizations (e.g., peacebuilding, WPS agenda)
Technical Assistance
Gender mainstreaming expertise and program design support
Policy Platform
Access to UN Women's advocacy and policy engagement channels
Organizations advancing women's economic rights, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, and economic participation in Africa. CSOs working on peacebuilding and women's empowerment.
Technical assistance, capacity building, advocacy support, M&E frameworks, policy engagement
UN agency — complex procurement and compliance requirements. Most grants go to established CSOs and NGOs, not startups. For-profit entities have very limited access.
The Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) programme is the primary vehicle. UNCDF partnership provides additional financial inclusion funding. Country offices in East/Southern Africa are most active. 2026-2029 strategic plan emphasis on care economies and climate is creating new funding windows.
2010
Active Since
Yes
Deploying
WEE programme across East/Southern Africa, small grants for CSOs in Ethiopia and Somalia, FemFocus partnership with Netherlands (€39.8M-€114.6M)