Organisation Name:
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Application Deadline:
15 November 2025
About Organisation
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is a feminist network based in the Asia-Pacific region that works to promote women’s rights, gender justice, and social transformation. It partners with local, regional, and national women’s rights groups, civil society, activists, and communities to address inequalities of power, resource and decision-making in their societies. APWLD engages in advocacy, research, capacity building, policy influence, legal reform, and participatory monitoring of international and national commitments (including the Sustainable Development Goals). Its Feminist Development Justice (FDJ) programme seeks to put feminist perspectives at the heart of development — making sure policies are accountable, inclusive, and attentive to the needs of the most marginalized women and gender diverse people.
About the Grant
This call is a sub-grant opportunity under APWLD’s Women2030 / Development Justice framework. It’s titled “Only Five Years Left: Development Justice at the core of a truly transformative and accountable Sustainable Development Goals”. The grant funds organisations (alumni of APWLD’s National Monitoring of SDGs) to monitor and review SDG implementation in their country using Development Justice indicators, engage communities, conduct advocacy, and push for accountability. It helps build capacity for data gathering, analysis, consultations, baseline setting, and report-writing to influence policies and ensure that SDG implementation is inclusive, gender-responsive, and grounded in justice.
Who can Apply?
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Organisations from the Asia-Pacific region that are alumni or previous participants in APWLD’s SDG monitoring / National Monitoring of the SDGs and Development Justice programmes.
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Women’s rights, feminist, or gender justice organisations (nonprofits) with commitment to working with marginalised groups (e.g. young, rural, indigenous, migrant, minority women, Dalit, etc.).
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Must have capacity & commitment to carry out monitoring / review work over a period (often 15-18 months), including hiring/assigning a dedicated coordinator, engaging community and civil society actors in consultations, collecting or analysing data, and writing a national civil society report.
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Familiarity with the SDG agenda and with feminist Development Justice framework or willingness to work with that methodology.
How to Apply?
Organisations should submit a proposal / application as specified by APWLD via its call for submissions. The application will likely include a project plan, budget, description of how they will do monitoring / review work, who will coordinate, how community consultations will be held, and how the report will be shared or used for advocacy. As alumni of prior SDG monitoring programmes, they should follow APWLD’s guidelines in the call announcement.
Application Deadline
The application deadline is 15 November 2025.
Last Date To Apply
For more information, please visit the grant website here.
