Apply for a grant
PFF offers funding to Pacific women, girls and people of gender non-conforming Pacific identities in all their diversity, who are part of a registered or unregistered network, and would advance human rights and gender equality in a time of climate crisis. We offer three types of grants to support organisations and groups only, not individual applicants.
We request your patience during PFF’s application review process. An estimated timeframe from application to grant disbursement can take as short as 1 month and as long as 4 months.
Types of Grants
Tausiga Grant
Grant for initiatives that would contribute to the cultivation of Pacific feminist forms of knowing, doing and being. Maximum Grant of up to NZD 50,000.
Fotuki Grant
Grant for initiatives that would advance human rights and gender equality in a time of climate crisis. Maximum Grant of up to NZD 300,000.
Wanwan Taem Grant
Grant that responds to specific needs and priorities and is by invitation only. Wanwan Taem are Bislama words meaning ‘occasionally’.
Eligibility criteria
- Pacific women, girls and people of gender non-conforming Pacific identities in all their diversity who are part of a registered or unregistered network
- You are based in the 23 Pacific countries and territories that PFF works in
- Your work:
- embodies a feminist and rights-based approach that pushes for structural and fundamental change.
- focuses on needs or issues that are under-addressed and/or contested, or politically sensitive.
- promotes interconnectedness of national and/or regional feminist movements and applies an intersectional approach.
Things to know about our grants
- All applications must respond to one of the grant types. Grants are not available to individuals.
- Please refer to our eligibility criteria.
- We request your patience during PFF’s application review process. An estimated timeframe from application to grant disbursement can take as short as 1 month and as long as 4 months.
- Our grant making is informed by our roster of country advisors who are part of the Pacific feminist movement, whom we rely upon to assess applications.
- Your privacy is critical, and we take measures to ensure your safety. Applications are shared only with PFF’s advisors or trusted contacts (as needed).
- Once a grant has been approved, the funds are delivered within 30 days.
- Depending on the grant and grant duration, all grantee partners are required to submit narrative and financial reports describing how the grant has been spent. For questions about grant applications, contact: grants@pacfemfund.org
Approval Process
