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8 new opportunities on the Humanitarian Aid, Emergency Programming and DRR page this cycle, all added since the July mid-month update and nearly all closing within the month. It is a small slate with a clear shape: protection for displaced people dominates, the UN is contracting for readiness rather than one-off delivery, and one corporate funder stands apart.
Protection for people on the move is the center of gravity. UNHCR is seeking partners for durable solutions for forcibly displaced and stateless people in Panama and for legal assistance, helpline management, and border monitoring for refugees and asylum-seekers in Iraq, while UNICEF is responding to the health needs of migrants moving through detection and deportation contexts in the Dominican Republic. The money concentrates on legal aid, protection monitoring, and community-based support, the machinery of keeping displaced people safe, and it continues the protection-and-localization thread that has run through this page all year.
The UN is contracting for readiness, not one-off delivery. UNICEF Thailand is establishing stand-by partnerships for emergency preparedness, WFP Ukraine is recruiting cooperating partners for food and cash assistance running through the end of 2027, and UNHCR Iraq is building a roster of NGOs it can call on. The recurring design choice, standby agreements and pre-qualified rosters, shows agencies investing in partnership architecture ahead of the next shock rather than commissioning activities after it, the UN partnership logic we have documented since the spring.
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date. 16 open opportunities- 8 new!
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible). 15 rolling opportunities!
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows. 1 long term opportunities!
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Humanitarian Response for Primary Health Care and Essential Supplies for Migrant and Vulnerable Populations in Mobility, Detection and Deportation Contexts in the Dominican Republic, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). *New!*
The United Nations Children’s Fund opened this call to fund a civil society partner delivering primary health and essential relief supplies to migrant and vulnerable people caught in mobility, detention, and deportation across the Dominican Republic. UNICEF frames the work as humanitarian, meeting the needs of families moving through an increasingly hostile migration corridor where Haitian children and women face interrupted care and removal. The agency wants a partner already operating inside these settings, reaching people in transit and detention with health services and supplies. Listing protection, health, and water and sanitation together signals that UNICEF treats survival, dignity, and child safeguarding as one package. The strongest fits are experienced Dominican and international organizations with field presence, migration expertise, and capacity to work in detention and deportation contexts.
Geographies: Caribbean, Central America, South America (Dominican Republic).
Who can apply: Civil society organizations (national and international NGOs) registered on the UN Partner Portal with the capacity to implement humanitarian health and protection programming for migrant and vulnerable populations in the Dominican Republic.
Funding amount: No fixed award amount is published on the call page.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDGs 3, 10, 16. Focus: migration, humanitarian health, detention.
Deadline: August 3, 2026.
Contingency Agreements with UNICEF for Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Preparedness and Response, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). *New!*
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Ecuador is inviting organizations to join a standing roster of partners for water, sanitation, and hygiene response when emergencies strike. UNICEF pre-qualifies partners before a crisis so that safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services can reach children and families in the first days of a flood, earthquake, or displacement event. The agency is looking for organizations that already hold operational footing in Ecuador’s most disaster-prone provinces, with warehouses, staff, and the ability to move supplies quickly. Selection weighs field presence, emergency experience, and alignment with the Core Commitments for Children, signaling that UNICEF values readiness over promises. The strongest fits are Ecuadorian civil society organizations with proven WASH delivery and logistics reach in vulnerable coastal and border provinces.
Geographies: Caribbean, Central America, South America (Ecuador).
Who can apply: Civil society organizations and NGOs with demonstrated experience in emergency preparedness and response in WASH (and related sectors), and operational capacity - field offices, warehouses, staffing, and rapid supply-mobilization ability - in Ecuador’s priority disaster-prone provinces.
Funding amount: No fixed award amount is published on the call page.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: WASH; SDGs 3, 6, 13. Focus: wash in emergencies, contingency planning, disaster risk reduction.
Deadline: August 4, 2026.
GENERAL FOOD AND CASH ASSISTANCE, October 2026 - December 2027, World Food Programme (WFP). *New!*
The United Nations World Food Programme opens this call for expression of interest to find cooperating partners that can deliver general food and cash assistance to communities near the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine. WFP wants organizations already working inside the affected oblasts, with field staff, warehouse capacity, and the standing to coordinate with local authorities on who qualifies. The scoring leans heavily on proven experience and on protection, safeguarding, and compliance, signaling that WFP values reliable local delivery over the lowest bid. Food commodities come from WFP; the partner handles targeting, storage, transport, direct distribution, and registering families for cash support. The strongest fits are national and international relief organizations with an operational footprint in Kharkiv, Kherson, and the surrounding regions.
Geographies: Eastern Europe (Ukraine).
Who can apply: Cooperating Partners: national and international NGOs/civil society organizations with the capacity to deliver general food and cash assistance in the specified Ukrainian oblasts, using their own paid field-based staff, with warehouse capacity located within the rayon/area of operations and the ability to coordinate wi…
Funding amount: Indicative Budget: - (not disclosed).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDGs 1, 2. Focus: general food distribution, cash based transfers, beneficiary targeting.
Deadline: August 9, 2026.
Selection of Implementing Partner(s) for Child Protection Case Management, Capacity Strengthening and Integrated Protection Services in Esmeraldas and Guayaquil, UNICEF. *New!*
UNICEF is seeking implementing partners for child protection work in Ecuador’s Esmeraldas and Guayaquil provinces, where armed violence, territorial control, and displacement expose children to recruitment, family separation, and school dropout. The call funds three complementary lines: integrated case management for children whose rights have been violated, capacity strengthening for local institutions and community actors, and integrated protection services through the Espacio de Apoyo Integral in Esmeraldas. Partners must work through existing referral routes and local protection institutions rather than build parallel services, signaling that UNICEF wants local systems strengthened, not substituted. Organizations can apply to one or both components, only in territories where they can demonstrate operational capacity. The strongest fits are Ecuadorian child protection organizations with territorial presence and proven case management practice.
Geographies: Americas (Ecuador).
Who can apply: Civil society organizations registered on the UN Partner Portal (national and international NGOs and community-based organizations). Applicants may apply to one or both programmatic components, and only for the territories (Esmeraldas, Guayaquil) where they can demonstrate operational capacity;.
Funding amount: No fixed award amount is published on the call page.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Social Inclusion & Community Wellbeing; SDGs 5, 16. Focus: child protection case management, capacity strengthening of local institutions, integrated protection services.
Deadline: August 12, 2026.
Protection and Solutions for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless People (Latvia), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is inviting organizations to become implementing partners for protection and solutions work for forcibly displaced and stateless people in Latvia from 2027 to 2029. Its Baltic strategy moves beyond the Ukraine emergency toward durable integration, embedding refugees and stateless residents into national systems for asylum, housing, education, and social protection. The agency wants partners who can safeguard access to territory, strengthen fair asylum procedures, provide early legal aid, reinforce child protection, and advance nationality pathways for long-term stateless populations. Selection rewards local presence, municipal networks, and accountability to affected communities, signaling that UNHCR values partners rooted in Latvian governance and civil society. The strongest fits are established Latvian civil society organizations with asylum, integration, and statelessness expertise.
Geographies: Latvia (Europe; Northern Europe).
Who can apply: Organizations (civil society organizations / NGOs) with sectoral expertise and complementary attributes to UNHCR’s capacities, able to deliver protection and durable-solutions activities in Latvia in one or more of the listed outputs and result areas.
Funding amount: Not publicly disclosed.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Social Inclusion & Community Wellbeing; SDGs: SDG1; SDG5; SDG10; SDG16; Focus areas: access to asylum; reception conditions; legal aid; statelessness determination; nationality pathways; municipal integration; social inclusion; voluntary repatriation counselling; rights-based public narratives.
Deadline: August 12, 2026.
You must already be a registered legal entity, and selection rewards municipal networks and local presence, so this favors Latvia-based organizations that can plug refugees into national asylum, housing, and social protection systems. This is a multi-year integration mandate through 2029, not emergency relief, and the strongest applicants come with existing ties to local authorities and demonstrable durable-solutions expertise.
Protection and Solutions for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless People, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is inviting organizations to join its partner pool for protection and solutions work with forcibly displaced and stateless people in Lithuania. The call supports the agency’s Baltic strategy for 2027 to 2029, which prioritizes safeguarding access to asylum, strengthening legal aid, reducing statelessness, and advancing local integration in a stable but security-focused policy environment. UNHCR wants partners who can move refugees toward secure status, employment, housing, and inclusion, not only immediate assistance. Applicants submit a strategic concept note across one or more result areas, signaling that the agency is building long-term, sector-specific relationships rather than one-off contracts. The strongest fits are organizations with proven legal, integration, or community-based expertise and established presence in Lithuania.
Geographies: Lithuania (Europe; Northern Europe).
Who can apply: Organizations able to implement protection, legal aid, integration, statelessness and durable-solutions work for forcibly displaced (refugees, asylum-seekers) and stateless people in Lithuania. Applicants must be registered as a legal entity in their country and registered with an up-to-date profile on the UN partner portal.
Funding amount: Not publicly disclosed.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Social Inclusion & Community Wellbeing; SDGs: SDG8; SDG10; SDG16; Focus areas: access to asylum; legal aid; local integration; voluntary return; child protection; gender-based violence; statelessness determination; family reunification.
Deadline: August 12, 2026.
The gate is formal legal registration plus an up-to-date UNHCR partner profile, and because this is a partner pool rather than a single award, applicants can enter on just one or more result areas rather than covering everything. Position for the long game of integration and statelessness reduction in Lithuania through 2029, which rewards organizations that move people toward secure status and employment over those offering only immediate assistance.
Request for Applications “Secure Community: War Preparedness 2.0” (13-02_SafeCommunity), Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU).
The Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine, a multi-donor program implemented by Chemonics and financed by seven European and Canadian governments, is opening its Safe Community war preparedness call to fund emergency readiness training in frontline and border communities. The fund works through local organizations because durable resilience has to be built by the people who stay. It wants to back training that teaches life-saving skills for a war that keeps changing shape: pre-medical aid, mine and drone threat awareness, and psychological first response. The single grant and the training-of-trainers pilot signal a focus on lasting local capacity, not one-off workshops. The strongest fits are registered Ukrainian civil society organizations already delivering preparedness or first-response training in the seven target oblasts.
Geographies: Ukraine (Eastern Europe).
Who can apply: Registered non-profit organizations (Ukrainian civil society) able to deliver emergency-preparedness training in frontline and border communities of the seven target oblasts. Applicants must submit a state-register extract/registration documents, a non-profit status certificate.
Funding amount: up to GBP 134,000 (equivalent to UAH 8,100,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Disaster Response; SDGs: SDG3; SDG11; SDG16; Focus areas: war preparedness; emergency response training; mine awareness; drone threat recognition; psychological first aid; training of trainers.
Deadline: August 16, 2026.
This is a Ukrainian-only call: applicants must be registered non-profits able to submit a state-register extract, non-profit certificate, and current statute, so international organizations are structurally excluded and local rootedness in the seven frontline oblasts is the whole point. With a single grant of up to GBP 134,000 and a training-of-trainers pilot, the smartest bids emphasize lasting local capacity built by people who stay, not one-off preparedness workshops.
Humanitarian Innovation Programme (HIP) Call for Proposals 2026, Innovation Norway.
The Humanitarian Innovation Programme, financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and administered by Innovation Norway, funds humanitarian organizations partnering with private sector actors to co-develop or scale solutions for people affected by crises. The structure is deliberate: the humanitarian organization is always the applicant and grant recipient, with the private sector partner engaged through the project, not as co-applicant. Two streams operate, an Innovation Lab for early-stage co-development and innovation-friendly procurement, and Scaling for solutions already validated with a private partner in pilot. Priorities span green humanitarian response, health and sanitation, protection including sexual and gender-based violence, innovative finance, and food security. Eligibility is narrow: UN agencies, Norwegian-registered INGOs with Norwegian boards, and the Red Cross Movement.
Geographies: Global crisis contexts; applicant headquartered in Norway, or any UN humanitarian agency.
Who can apply: UN agencies with a humanitarian mandate; Norwegian-registered humanitarian INGOs with a Norwegian board; the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IFRC, ICRC); consortia.
Funding amount: Innovation Lab grants NOK 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 (USD ~$375,000 to ~$565,000), up to NOK 8,000,000 (USD ~$750,000) for consortia of three or more; Scaling grants NOK 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 (USD ~$190,000 to ~$940,000). Total envelope historically NOK 100,000,000 (USD ~$9,400,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Humanitarian & Emergency Response; SDGs 3, 9, 13, 16, 17. Focus: humanitarian-private sector partnership, green response, protection, innovative finance, food security.
Deadline: August 17, 2026.
Every funded project must engage a private sector partner; the partnership is the methodology, not an enhancement. Name the company, its commercial logic for participating, and the co-design process. A humanitarian project with a vendor attached is not what this program buys.
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