Urgent Action Fund Africa

**Who We Are** **“An evolving consciousness of our ways of being in the world is as important as the work itself.”** **We are an activist pan-African feminist rapid response Fund committed to transforming power relations by resourcing African feminists, Defenders, and their formations as an act of solidarity.** With deep and expanding knowledge, experience, and skills in the contexts in which Defenders live, organise and work, the Fund is alert and agile in responding to the priorities and urgent needs of African women’s rights activists and movements, thus ensuring holistic security, safety and well-being, movement building and strengthening using feminist philanthropic principles and values. **Our collective staff speak forty-six African dialects, enhancing our linguistic infrastructure, which allows us to facilitate critical conversations with the right people when it counts the most.** The virtual work structure with anchor offices in Kenya and Zimbabwe and the rest of the team spread across fifteen African countries facilitates how we show up in agile, dynamic, and grounded ways, centring our feminist values, diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, and multi-disciplinary teams. In our work to power urgent actions by Defenders, we target the ideas and narratives that perpetuate oppression, the systems of oppression, and the supporting institutions. The change we seek is importantly focused on five key actors: - **Society** We believe that favourable conditions enable Defenders, organisations, and movements to support and sustain themselves, their work, and each other better. - **Movements** Movements act on a shared commitment to strengthen urgent actions and co-create cultures of care, justice, and equity. - **African Women’s Human Rights Defenders** Defenders can better access and use resources to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work during and after urgent situations. **Our Mandate** We are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and women’s rights movements in Africa and globally. UAF Africa advocates for funding partners to understand, commit to, and actively invest in pan-African feminist and women’s rights activism and urgent situations requiring rapid response deployment. **Our Vision** We want an Africa and world where transformative justice is a shared goal so that all African women in all kinds of bodies, realities, and identities are recognised for their full worth and value, live to their fullest potential, are healthy and live in harmony with the earth and with fellow human beings. **Our Mission** UAF Africa works to support Defenders, 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.