ActionAid Nigeria Strategic Innovation Fund 2026 for Women’s Rights Initiatives (Up to ₦20 Million)

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Applications are open for ActionAid Nigeria Strategic Innovation Fund 2026. ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), with funding from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), through the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Project, is pleased to announce a Call for Expression of Interest for Strategic Innovation Funding (SIF) to support creative and innovative interventions aimed at advancing the rights of women and girls in Nigeria.

The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is a grant designed to support innovative ideas and initiatives addressing gender issues with a focus on diverse women and girls. This fund provides women’s rights organizations (WROs) with the opportunity to design and test creative approaches that promote and protect women and girls’ rights. Through this fund, WROs can pilot new ideas, models, and technologies that challenge existing barriers, strengthen advocacy, and generate scalable solutions for achieving transformative changes in women and girls’ lives. Ideas that address violence against women and girls, protect women and girls in conflict or on the move, women economic justice and empowerment, women political participation and leadership including policy advocacy and influencing. For this fund, innovation may include a new approach, adaptation of an existing solution, use of technology, community-driven methodology, partnership model, advocacy approach, or other creative strategy that offers a more effective way to advance women’s rights.

ActionAid Nigeria Strategic Innovation Fund Grant Details

Up to Five (5) innovative ideas will be granted in this round with a grant ceiling of Twenty Million Naira (NGN20,000,000.00) each, to be implemented within Six (6) months to One (1) year period.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for this grant, you must:

Be a women’s rights organization or women’s rights network.
Be women-led and operating in Nigeria.
Propose an intervention that is innovative, creative, strategic, and impactful for women and girls.
Demonstrate how this intervention will advance gender equality, gender justice, contribute to systemic change and complement existing efforts in advancing the rights of women and girls.
Show how scalable the intervention can be.
Demonstrate the capacity to implement within a short timeframe and achieve measurable impact.

Please note: They really want to hear from applicants who have innovative ideas on programming for structurally excluded groups such as women and girls with disability, women and girls in conflict, women and girls on the move/returnees, female inmates, gender-based violence victims/survivors, out-of-school girls, elderly women and women in politics.

Submission Requirements

All interested applicants should use the attached template to respond to the call. The completed template should be sent alongside an organizational profile.

Please Note:

Only one application per organization will be considered.
Applications that are not on the required template will be disqualified.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted due to the volume of applications received.
AAN will not be responsible for any cost you may incur in the application process.

How To Apply for ActionAid Nigeria Strategic Innovation Fund

Submit your completed EOI and required documents via email to:
mailto:RWVL.SIFGrant@actionaid.org
RWVL.SIFGrant@actionaid.org
Use the subject line: “Strategic Innovation Fund September 2026

IMPORTANT: The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (such as ChatGPT or similar platforms) to draft, structure, or generate your application narratives, project descriptions, or advocacy goals is strictly prohibited. Use of AI will lead to automatic disqualification.

Download Application Templates Below:

SIF Application Template (2729 downloads )

SIF Grant Budget (1961 downloads )

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Application Deadline: 12th October 2026. (12:00 Midnight)