Issuing Organization: ActionAid Nigeria
Donor: Global Affairs Canada
Project: Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership Project
Country: Nigeria
Opens: October 5, 2026
Background
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), with funding from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), through the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Project, is pleased to announce a Call for Expression of Interest for Critical Intervention Fund under its Strategic Opportunity Funding (SOF) grants.
The Opportunity
The Strategic Opportunity Fund is a fast responsive fund which is designed to provide women’s rights organizations/Networks and movements the opportunity to implement impactful short-term projects that positively affect women and girls. The fund enables timely action to protect women and girls’ rights, sustain advocacy efforts, and address emerging gender-related challenges in crisis contexts.
The Call
This call is for the Critical Intervention Fund which supports short-term advocacy or strategic opportunities that can influence policy change, amplify women’s voices, strengthen women’s movement building efforts and address gender-related challenges facing women and girls.
Scope of the Call
This call is open to all Women-Led Organizations, Networks and Movements in Nigeria.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
To be eligible for this grant, you must:
- Be a women’s rights organization, women’s rights network, or movement working on women and girls’ rights.
- Be women-led and operating in Nigeria.
- Propose an intervention that is strategic, time-sensitive, and impactful for women and girls.
- Demonstrate how this intervention will advance gender equality, gender justice, contribute to systemic change and complement existing efforts in advancing the rights of women and girls.
- Demonstrate the capacity to implement within a short timeframe and achieve measurable impact.
Please note: We really want to hear from applicants who are working with or advocating for structurally excluded groups such as women and girls with disability, women and girls in conflict, women and girls on the move/returnees, female sex workers, female inmates, gender-based violence survivors, out-of-school girls, elderly women and women in politics.
Submission Requirements
All interested applicants should use the attached template to respond to the call. The completed template should be sent alongside an organizational profile.
Please Note:
- Each applicant should submit only ONE application.
- Applications that are not on the required template will be disqualified.
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted due to the volume of applications received.
- AAN will not be responsible for any cost you may incur in the application process.
Budget
Each grant is for a maximum of Six Million Naira Only (N6,00,000.00)
Timeline
- Call Opens: October 5, 2026
- Call Closes: October 19, 2026
- Only applicants whose submissions meet the fund’s eligibility criteria and are successful will be contacted.
How to Apply
Submit your completed EOI and required documents via email to:
sof.grant@actionaid.org
Use the subject line: “Strategic Opportunity Fund – Critical Intervention Fund”
[Download Application Template]
This Grant is implemented under the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Nigeria Project, with support from Global Affairs Canada.
