Lead Researcher- Security Knowledge Products
Urgent Action Fund-Africa · Apply by November 9, 2026
About this role
Who we are Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women’s human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. 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 women’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building, as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Women’s Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and women’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations. UAF-Africa is registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. The Fund boasts of strategic physical presence in East Africa: North Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda); Central Africa: Douala & Yaoundé (Cameroon); Southern Africa: Harare…