UN Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF)
A UN fund financing local women's organisations in conflict and crisis settings, including in Ukraine since 2022.
About the fund
The UN Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a UN pooled fund launched in February 2016 as a partnership between the United Nations and civil society. Its secretariat is hosted by UN Women in New York.
WPHF funds local and grassroots women's organisations that prevent conflict, respond to crises and build peace in their communities. Alongside regular country calls, it runs a Rapid Response Window (since 2020) for urgent short-term initiatives by women peacebuilders and a separate window supporting women human rights defenders.
Ukraine is one of WPHF's countries: after the full-scale invasion, the Fund launched a regional response in Ukraine and Moldova in April 2022, financing women's organisations that provide humanitarian aid to IDPs and refugees, protect against gender-based violence and strengthen women's role in recovery.
Focus areas
- Women's participation in peacebuilding
- Women's leadership in humanitarian response
- Protection of women and girls from gender-based violence
- Support for women human rights defenders
- Institutional development of women's organisations
- Women's participation in recovery
Interesting facts
Launched in February 2016; since then it has supported more than 1,400 civil society organisations.
In Ukraine and Moldova it has supported 147 organisations and mobilised more than USD 10 million since 2022.
Its Rapid Response Window for women peacebuilders has operated since 2020.
How to apply
Local women's and women's rights NGOs, as well as organisations with experience working with women and girls, can apply. Calls for Ukraine are announced on wphfund.org and the UN Women Ukraine website; applications are submitted by email.
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