Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a consciously feminist and womn’s human rights pan- African Fund, registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Operating as a virtual organisation, the Fund boasts of strategic presence in Africa’s five sub-regions- East Africa: Nairobi & Makuyu-Kenya, Kampala-Uganda and Addis Ababa-Ethiopia; North Africa: Cairo-Egypt, Central Africa: Bujumbura- Burundi; Southern Africa: Harare-Zimbabwe, Lilongwe & Blantyre-Malawi, Antananarivo-Madagascar, Johannesburg & Capetown- South Africa; and West Africa: Benue & Abuja-Nigeria, Parakou-Benin, Yaoundé & Douala-Cameroon, Lomé-Togo and Accra-Ghana. 

Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote womn’s agency in democratic governance, economic, environmental and climate justice, natural resources governance and conflict transformation while protecting their personhood, integrity, and rights.