South Asia Women’s Fund


	SAWF is not for profit Company registered in Sri Lanka

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	Goal A regional and national platform for South Asian women to ensure, address and advocate for women’s human rights by creating a sustainable philanthropic institution for, by and with women and women’s movements

	The legal fellowships programme – Apply Now!! Deadline Extended SAWF is pleased to announce the launch of its Legal Fellowship Programme. The call is open to women lawyers, women human rights defenders with para-legal training working in small towns at the primary/lower court level in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and have at least two year’s experience of working on women’s rights issues through a feminist legal praxis. The last date for receiving applications is 28th February 2013. Please note that SAWF will receive applications in English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Nepali and Sinhala.Please read the application criteria thoroughly before filling in the application form.

Latest Update: Small Grants Programme- The next cycle of grants disbursements for the small grants programme will be made in February 2013. Applications have to be received latest by 31st January 2013 to be considered for this cycle. Please note that all applications should follow the small grants application format given, and have to be complete with all supporting documents. Applications should meet the criteria of the small grants programme, for both organizational and individual grants and should be from USD 1500 to USD 5000 for up to a period of one year.

For any queries regarding the small grants programme, please send an email to sawfrgp@sawf.info.

Small grants applications should be addressed to: The Programme Officer: Resources and Grants, South Asia Women's Fund, and should be sent by email, with all attachments to sawfrgp@sawf.info

If submitting an application by email is difficult or not possible, please send a hard copy of your application with all supporting documents to South Asia Women's Fund, 16/6A Mohideen Terrace, Ward Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.

Announcing Standing Call for Small Grants Programme: South Asia Women’s Fund is pleased to issue a standing call for applications to its Small Grants Programme. SAWF will receive applications to the standing call throughout the year, and will disburse grants twice a year in two cycles; June/July and January/February. Click here for more information.

To apply for a small grant, please read the grant call carefully, fill out the attached forms (both the proposal and the budget form) and mail to us at sawfrgp@sawf.info, Thank you.

SAWF is extremely grateful to Srilatha Batiwala for her generous and heartwarming gesture of donating her birthday gift to us. Click here to read more.

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South Asia Women’s Fund
16/6 A, Mohideen Terrace, Ward Place, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
E: sawf@sawf.info
T: +94 11 2690 992

Welcome to SAWF

Objectives

To create a philanthropic institution in the region committed to supporting realization of human rights of women in the region.

To fund raise from within and outside the region to ensure sustained support to struggles for women’s human rights work.

To provide support for cutting-edge, critical and innovative initiatives and work for realization of human rights of women through transparent and accountable grant making strategies.

To advocate and follow through the mandate of the women’s movements in the region, through grant-making, advocacy and networking activities in and outside the region.

To create synergies between women’s movements at the national and the regional level for learning and exchanges.

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