Issuing Organization: ActionAid Nigeria
Donor: Global Affairs Canada
Project: Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership Project
Country: Nigeria
Opens: 19 June 2026
About the Fund
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), with funding from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) through the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Nigeria Project, is calling for Expressions of Interest for the Emergency Intervention Fund under its Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM).
Women and girls, particularly those from structurally excluded and marginalized groups, are often the hardest hit during emergencies, conflicts, natural disasters, displacement, and other crises. These situations increase their exposure to violence, exploitation, gender-based violence, loss of livelihoods, and exclusion from critical services and decision-making.
The RWVL Emergency Intervention Fund provides rapid, flexible funding to women-led organizations, women’s rights organizations, networks, movements, and community actors responding to urgent situations affecting women and girls.
What the Fund Supports
The Emergency Intervention Fund is designed to enable fast access to resources for organizations responding to:
- Armed conflict and insecurity
- Communal violence and civil unrest
- Natural disasters, including floods, droughts, and other climate-related emergencies
- Humanitarian crises and displacement
- Disease outbreaks and public health emergencies
- Political instability and governance-related crises
- Escalating threats against women and girls
- Sudden policy changes negatively affecting women and girls
- Situations requiring urgent humanitarian, protection, advocacy, or recovery action
Eligible interventions may include:
- Emergency relief and humanitarian assistance
- Protection services for women and girls
- Temporary shelter and safe spaces
- Emergency transportation and evacuation
- Relocation of individuals or groups at risk
- Psychosocial and trauma support services
- Emergency healthcare support
- Dignity kits and essential supplies
- Community protection mechanisms
- Emergency advocacy and public awareness campaigns
- Digital response where in-person implementation is not possible
- Rapid assessments and coordination activities
- Emergency legal support and referrals
- Community resilience and recovery interventions
Who Can Apply
This call is open to:
- Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs)
- Women-led Civil Society Organizations
- Feminist organizations and collectives
- Women’s rights networks and movements
- Women-led Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)
- Women-led humanitarian and protection-focused organizations
- Women-led organizations working with IDPs, refugees, returnees, and conflict-affected populations
- Women-led organizations providing psychosocial, protection, legal, humanitarian, or emergency services
- Consortiums led by eligible women-led organizations
Priority will be given to interventions supporting:
- Women and girls with disabilities
- Conflict- or crisis-affected women and girls
- Internally displaced women and girls
- Women and girls on the move, migrants, and returnees
- Female inmates and ex-inmates
- Survivors of gender-based violence
- Out-of-school girls
- Female sex workers
- Elderly women
- Women in politics and public leadership
- Women living in disaster-affected communities
- Other structurally excluded groups
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered, applicants must:
- Be a women-led organization, WRO, network, movement, or consortium operating in Nigeria
- Be responding to a clearly identified emergency, crisis, or urgent situation affecting women and girls
- Demonstrate the urgency and strategic importance of the proposed intervention
- Show how the intervention advances gender equality, justice, protection, wellbeing, or recovery
- Have the capacity to implement within a short timeframe and achieve measurable impact
- Have accountability mechanisms in place for managing emergency funds
- Show how the intervention complements existing efforts and contributes to sustainable outcomes
Priority is given to interventions that are women-led, community-driven, and directly responsive to immediate needs.
Grant Amount
Each grant is for a maximum of NGN 10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira only).
How to Apply
Download the application template below and submit your completed EOI along with the following:
- Completed Application Template
- Organizational Profile
- Evidence of registration (where available; organizations without formal registration are encouraged to apply and explain their structure)
- Relevant supporting documentation on the emergency situation (where available)
Send your application by email to: rwvl.sofgrant@actionaid.org
Use this exact subject line: Strategic Opportunity Fund – Emergency Intervention Fund
[Download Application Template]
Strategic Opportunity Fund (Sof) – Emergency Intervention Fund (3 downloads)
Strategic Opportunity Fund – Budget Template (45 downloads)
Timeline
- Review: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis as needs arise, subject to availability of funds
- Only successful applicants will be contacted
Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
Please Note
- Each applicant should submit only one application.
- Applications not submitted using the required template may be disqualified.
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
- ActionAid Nigeria will not be responsible for any costs incurred during the application process.
- Application content should not exceed 2 to 4 pages.
- Any attempt to alter the template requirements will result in disqualification.
This fund is implemented under the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Nigeria Project, with support from Global Affairs Canada.
