Emergency Response Grants

Emergency Response Grants is sponsored by Doria Feminist Fund. These grants offer flexible and rapid funding designed to empower feminist collectives in Lebanon responding to humanitarian crises.

Five Years with the Doria Feminist Fund Closing the gap in funding and trust, and building an institution from and for the region.

Resourcing Connection and Care This Collective Care Collaborative’s Advocacy toolkit is a resource for funders that builds on the visions, experience, and practices of the 5 women’s funds and the accompaniment and organizational practices, and its centrality in supporting the “glue” and resilience of feminist movements.

It also points to recommendations of what more funders can do to invest in community-driven care models that prioritize interdependence, well-being and sustainability within women’s rights organizations, feminist movements and women’s funds.

Psychosocial Support Manual Over the last few years Doria has been working to define and document holistic feminist responses to emergency contexts, to understand how we can strengthen support to our grantee partner community in moments of crisis.

Our duty of care to the feminist movement ecosystem is to create opportunities for connection, knowledge sharing and exchange, and solidarity, while strengthening the work of Doria grantee partners with access to flexible funding and accompaniment. We provide support for women across the Middle East and North Africa Doria Feminist Fund supports feminist groups and organisations working at the frontlines of change.

We provide flexible funding and long-term support so communities can grow their work, share knowledge, and shape their own futures. We work to make sure that both new and established feminist groups in the MENA region have access to more and better funding to continue and develop their work, articulate their own priorities and produce local knowledge.

2025 in numbers We took our grantmaking to a new level - 2025 596 Applications received from 19 countries $1. 46M Disbursed in grants 57 Open-call grants disbursed 21 Grants and emergency grants renewed Five Years with the Doria Feminist Fund Closing the Gap in Funding and Trust, and Building an Institution From and For the Region Testimonies from Our Partners With DFF’s support, Midanik is now formally registered in Sudan and Uganda!

This provided Midanik’s team with more confidence, visibility and recognition to sustain their work. Why it matters: in a context where feminist organizing is under severe pressure, flexible funding helped Midanik strengthen both its organizational survival and public legitimacy.

Midanik | Sudan “Our work and partnership with DFF made it possible for queer-led and trans-led initiatives to exist and have our voices heard within the feminist movement in the SWANA region.

” Hawar Arkawazi, Queer Light Collective | Kurdistan, Iraq “With the support of the DFF, Roots Lab Africa has made significant progress in strengthening queer and gender-diverse communities across Morocco through capacity-building, visibility, and community-led empowerment. The grant enabled us to implement a series of impactful activities that advance bodily autonomy, gender justice, and intersectional advocacy.

” Roots Lab Africa | Morocco “DFF’s accompaniment has been far more than a funding relationship. It has been a genuine partnership in feminist movement-building. ” Dar Al Maghreb | Morocco “We completed a full seasonal cycle of workshops rooted in feminist ecology, collective care, and ancestral food practices.

Following the initial gatherings and spring workshops, we organized three additional workshops that marked the transition into late summer and autumn food preservation practices. We held a burghul workshop where women collectively cooked, dried, milled, and prepared wheat, alongside bread-making and storytelling around childhood, labour, and survival.

This workshop highlighted wheat as both nourishment and memory, and centered women’s embodied knowledge of food systems shaped by necessity, care, and resilience. ” Karzeh | Lebanon “In 2025, the team focused on integrating climate justice, women’s empowerment, and community participation through the reforestation project in Afrin.

Activities included trainings and the planting of 3,192 diverse seedlings with follow-up irrigation and maintenance to ensure sustainable growth. ” Syria Youth Initiative | Syria “Before this training, I thought climate change was something far from us. Now I understand how it affects our land and our work, and I feel that I can do something about it, even if it starts with a small step.

” Transformative Pathways The countdown begins! ⏳ DFF Grantmaking Cycle 7 opens on 7 September. Know a feminist group that should apply?

Tag them or share this post. 💜 بدأ العدّ التنازلي! ⏳ تنطلق دورة تقديم المنح السابعة لصندوق درية النسوي في 7 أيلول/سبتمبر.

هل تعرفن/تعرفون مجموعةً نسويةً يجب أن تقدّم ترشيحها؟ أشرن/أشيروا إليها أو شاركن/شاركوا هذا المنشور معها. 💜 Le compte à rebours a commencé ! ⏳ Le cycle 7 d’octroi de subventions du DFF débute le 7 septembre.

Vous connaissez un groupe féministe qui devrait postuler ? Identifiez-le ou partagez cette publication. 💜 Today, DFF is a fully-formed institution, built on five years of hard-won experience.

Tell us: what should institutions like ours be developing further ,in our programmes, and in how we relate to the movements we work with? اليوم، أصبح صندوق درية النسوي مؤسسة واضحة المعالم، تستند إلى خبرة تراكمت على مدى خمس سنوات.

شاركننا رأيكن: ما الذي ينبغي على مؤسسات مثلنا أن تطوره في برامجها، وفي علاقتها بالحركات التي تعمل معها؟ Aujourd’hui, le DFF est une institution à part entière, forgée par cinq années d’expérience durement acquise. Dites-nous: que devraient encore développer des institutions comme la nôtre , dans leurs programmes, et dans leur relation aux mouvements qu’elles accompagnent?

من تجربتكن معنا: ما الذي ينبغي أن نحافظ عليه، وما الذي علينا تغييره؟ A partir de votre expérience avec le DFF, que devrions-nous préserver, et que devrions-nous changer ? From your experience with DFF, what should we preserve, and what should we change? Where should funding for feminist and queer movements go?

برأيكن، كيف يجب توزيع التمويل على الحركات النسوية والكويرية؟ Où devraient aller les financements destinés aux mouvements féministes et queer ?