The Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), Wellcome, and the Gates Foundation (GF) are jointly launching a new $5,000,000 initiative, Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI), to drive innovation in early drug discovery for Gram-negative pathogens.
- 2025, Academic Institutions, Academic Research, Central Africa, East Africa, Health, March, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking proposals for innovative solutions for the early detection, prevention, and treatment of preeclampsia, with a funding opportunity of $500,000, particularly targeting low- and middle-income countries where maternal mortality rates are high.
- 2025, Academic Institutions, Academic Research, Central Africa, East Africa, Health, March, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
The upto €100,000 “Francophonie with Them” Fund is a solidarity mechanism aimed at strengthening the economic and social autonomy of women in the French-speaking world, in vulnerable situations, and with a view to sustainable development.
- 2025, Central Africa, March, North Africa, West Africa, Women Empowerment
The $50,000 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions, and organizations to advance girls’ and women’s education.
- 2025, Central Africa, East Africa, Education, May, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
The $100,000 UNICEF Venture Fund is calling for applications from start-ups developing cutting edge tech solutions improving access to quality health care and services, and ensuring socio-economic participation of women and girls.
- 2025, Central Africa, East Africa, Health Care, May, North Africa, Southern Africa, Tech, West Africa
The ZAR320,000 ICGEB-SAWBP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, in partnership with the South African Department of Science, Technology and Innovation and the National Research Foundation will support South African women researchers holding a PhD degree, in Biotechnology or a related discipline, having outstanding ability, and who will perform hypothesis-driven research.
- 2025, Academic Research, April, Fellowship, South Africa
The International Organization for Migration is inviting CSOs, academia, media and women-led organisations in ECOWAS & Mauritania to apply for up to €100,000 grants to support migration-related projects.
- 2025, April, East Africa, West Africa
The Layal Jade Tinubu Unoella Foundation will be disbursing an Empowerment Fund of ₦60 million among select beneficiaries.
- 2025, April, Nigeria, Youth
The up to €15,000 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science national and regional “Young Talents” programmes have been supporting young women researchers around the world to pursue their scientific careers in their home countries or abroad since 2000.
- 2025, Academic Research, Central Africa, East Africa, March, Southern Africa, West Africa, Youth
The International Brain Research Organization is accepting applications for its $3,000 Parenthood Grants to counter any disadvantage by providing funds that can be used to cover research-related expenses such as reagents, facility costs, outsourcing experiments or data acquisition, transportation of non-commercial samples or reagents
- 2025, East Africa, March, North Africa, West Africa