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Urgent Action Fund, Asia & Pacific

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We resource & accompany women, trans, & non-binary human rights defenders & activists in their critical defense of people & planet ✊🏾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌱

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2025 has been a year of collective interrogation of what “care” really means for us as a funder and for the movements we resource. In our five years of working with women, trans, and non-binary human rights activists and defenders, though we have not reached a set definition of what ‘Webs of Safety and Care’ (one of our grant categories) means, one clear message has emerged time and again as we deepened our accompaniment work with our grantees – that the most critical infrastructure of care is relational.

Jebli Shrestha and Maki from our Enabling Defenders team write about our work on collective care in this excerpt from our 2025 Annual Learning Report. Read at the link in our bio. Cover illustration for Care is relational, a chapter. from annual learning report 2025. By Jebli Shrestha and Maki from the Enabling Defenders team. The illustration depicts a large swreping sea plant, in soothing light green and cream colours. Next to it are some small fishes and sea animals. by @uaf_anp

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Our annual reports are one way we stay accountable to movements: not just reporting what we funded, but also telling their stories and what we learned alongside them.
Stories hold what numbers can’t: the courage, care, and strategy behind every act of resistance.

The 2025 annual reports from the Urgent Action Sister Funds offer distinct perspectives on sustaining feminist movements through permacrisis, and on what becomes possible when we invest in the people, relationships, and infrastructures that hold them together.

🔗 Explore the 2025 annual reports on each fund’s respective website. A textured blue background with illustrated foliage, flowers, constellations and the four Sister Fund’s 2025 annual report covers. The headline asks, “What does it take to sustain feminist movements in a time of crisis?” The post features snippets from the Urgent Action Sister Funds’ 2025 Annual Reports. by @uaf_anp

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We’re excited to share that we’re now on Substack!

Our newsletter will highlight the work we’re doing, the people and communities we work with and who inspire us, and reflections on what we’re learning along the way.

If you’d like to stay connected and hear more about our work beyond our brief updates on social media, we’d love for you to subscribe.

Subscribe at the link in our bio. A cover image that says We're on Substack! Surrounding the text is a collage of our latest blog posts, including one on our Afghanistan crisis response and Annual Learning Report chapters. by @uaf_anp

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As conflict, political repression, and climate change intensified in 2025, communities and activists found themselves on the front lines of escalating disasters. Women, transgender, and non-binary defenders, in particular, faced the compounded effects of the climate crisis and a succession of natural disasters that swept through both regions.

In response to this, in 2025, we expanded our humanitarian grants to support communities responding to immediate crises, stemming from our COVID grants and specific grants for natural disasters. We made 99 humanitarian grants to 11 countries, totalling USD 850,755. This comprised a quarter of our total grantmaking for the calendar year.

In our latest annual learning report, Chae Yeon Kim, our Data and Storytelling Facilitator, and Vinita Sahasranaman, our Co-Lead, reflect on our approach. Read more at the link in bio.

🎨 Illustration by @namsai_k From Relief to Resilience. By Chae Yeon Kim, Data and Storytelling Facilitator and Vinita Sahasranaman, Co-Lead. The cover illustration depicts sea plants swaying in light and soothing green colours. by @uaf_anp

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Every year invites reflection. Our co-leads, Virisila Buadromo and Vinita Sahasranaman, chat with each other about our work and learnings in 2025.

Read on at the link in our bio.

🎨 Illustration by @namsai_k Built to disrupt, not repeat. By Vinita Sahasranaman and Virisila Buadromo, Co-Leads. The illustration depicts a group of connected plants with small fishes nearby, on a gentle blue backdrop. by @uaf_anp

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Money has never felt neutral in feminist and queer lives. Many of us grew up being told to keep our distance from it. We weren’t encouraged to see ourselves as people who could shape wealth, manage resources, or make decisions about our financial futures. More often, we were expected to stretch what little we had, justify every need, or go without.

For many women, queer, and trans people, money appears as a limit rather than power. Our Board Member, Dana, reflects on feminist questions around money, movement, and governance in this excerpt from our latest annual learning report, The Living Edge.

Read the chapter on our blog. Link in Bio.

🎨 Illustration by @namsai_k Beyond scarcity: feminist questions on money, movement, and governance. By Dana, board member. The cover illustration depicts a group of stylised rocks and reefs spaced out from each other, with watercolour wash backdrop and textures. The colours are muted browns, blues, and whites. by @uaf_anp

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In an emergency, time matters. So does who gets to decide what the response looks like — and how resources are used.
Following the earthquakes in Colombia and Venezuela, movements were already responding: organizing shelter, food, medicines, transport, care and protection in their communities, often before outside funding arrived.

In our latest Sister Funds blog, FAU LAC reflects on why fast funding alone is not enough. Resources also need to be flexible and shaped by the knowledge and priorities of people closest to the crisis.
Read the full piece on our Sister Funds Substack. Link in bio.

#FeministCrisisResponse by @uaf_anp

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How do you fight for the safety of others, when you’re under threat yourself?

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Disclaimer: This series is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events and places, is purely coincidental. However, the stories are inspired by the real-life struggles and contexts of women, trans, and non-binary human rights defenders and activists in the Pacific and Asia.

Script, voiceover, and editing by Sharmilla Ganesan @sharmillag

Music by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Video Image Collage by Rupa S.Maniam @warna.rupa.

Image source: The Met Open Access Collection @metmuseum
Ancestor Figure, Sawos people 19th century or earlier (Obj. 1979.206.1561)
Ancestor figure, Kambot artist, 19th century (Obj. 1978.412.823)
Barkcloth (Kapa / Tapa)
Head, Temne or Bullom artist(s) 12th–16th century (Obj. 1978.412.375)
Mask, Tolai people, mid to late 19th century (Obj. 1978.412.1524)
Mask, Probably Umboi or Siassi Islands, 19th century (Obj. 1978.412.721)
Two Tahitian Women, Paul Gauguin 1899 (Obj. 49.58.1)
All in The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1965-72

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Our Data and Storytelling Facilitator, Chae Yeon Kim, writes about what it takes to sustain and scale feminist crisis response when risk is inevitable, centering trust and care is crucial, and solidarity has to travel across borders! Lessons from our work in Afghanistan.

Read more on our new Substack. Link in bio.

🎨 Illustration by Yalda Yaqubi. Cover image for new blog post on Substack, titled Scaling feminist crisis response: Lessons in risk, trust, and solidarity from Afghanistan, by Chae Yeon Kim, Data and Storytelling Facilitator. The accompanying illustration shows a series of scenes from Afghanistan that portrays the struggle of the people, such as trafficking, lack of access to education, poverty, and gender inequality. by @uaf_anp

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What would you sacrifice for climate justice?

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Disclaimer: This series is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events and places, is purely coincidental. However, the stories are inspired by the real-life struggles and contexts of women, trans, and non-binary human rights defenders and activists in the Pacific and Asia.

Script, voiceover, and editing by Sharmilla Ganesan @sharmillag
Music by Kavinda Kusal from Pixabay

Artwork: Original illustrations hand-drawn by Rupa S.Maniam @warna.rupa inspired by news coverage & photojournalism from the feminist movement in Sri Lanka. Video-Image Collage by the same artist.

Background Footage: Video clips by various creators via Canva Pro. by @uaf_anp

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What does it look like to decolonise philanthropy in practice?

The story of UAF Asia & Pacific's creation offers one model of what it means to shift decision-making power closer to the movements we work with.

“Even in times of crisis—especially in times of crisis—the path forward lies in sharing power.”

Read the full Substack article via the link in our bio.

Illustrations credits @veshanaidu by @uaf_anp

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“थुप्रेको एक मुठी, नथुप्रेको धुरी” — A single handful from many makes a roof for the roofless.

Across Nepal, people are coming together in solidarity with families, communities and businesses who have lost homes, livelihoods, loved ones, and destruction of critical transport and community infrastructure caused by the devastating glacial collapse that triggered the catastrophic flash flood on 26th August, 2026.

Communities are responding in the only way they know - by coming together to provide food, shelter, clothes, clean water, medicine, dignity packs and psychosocial support. Many of our local partners and advisors are at the frontlines, providing mutual aid and reaching communities often missed by traditional humanitarian systems.

UAF A&P has been supporting women, LBTQI defenders and their communities in Nepal since its inception in 2018 and during this devastating disaster. We will continue to be in solidarity with them. Today, we ask you to show your solidarity too.

If you can, please support Nepal as she recovers from this disaster. Here’s a list of organisations that are responding from the frontlines - all led by women, trans and gender non binary people.

1. Sahayatri Samaj Nepal – Dhading District
2. Shree Samajik Rupantaran Nepal – Nuwakot District
3. @shanti__foundation
4. @worec_nepal
5. @mitini.nepalofficial
6. TEWA – Women's Fund in Nepal

Or, make a contribution to UAF A&P. Every dollar that you contribute will go directly to communities and groups most affected in Nepal. Your donation will not incur any administrative fees.

Head over to the link in our bio to donate, and include "For Nepal" as a comment.

Illustration by @namsai_k by @uaf_anp

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