Call for Applications: Sub-grant for the Alumni of the National Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Only Five Years Left: Development Justice at the core of a truly transformative and accountable Sustainable Development Goals

Sub-grant for the Alumni of the National Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice
SDG Monitoring 2026-2027

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is inviting alumni of the SDG Monitoring Programme to apply for the 2026-2027 SDG Monitoring sub-grant.  

Ten years into implementation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have demonstrated repeated failures to enforce state accountability. The multiple crises are deepening with increasing debt burdens on the global south, austerity measures, increasing poverty and widening inequality. Extractivism and degradation of the environment and women’s human rights have worsened, with wars and conflict escalating accompanied with trade wars across the world, and a worsening climate crisis. Amidst this, the United Nations is also facing tremendous backlash in an era of broken multilateralism and intense geopolitics. 

With only five years left to assess the progress of the goals, it is critical to raise and amplify concerns on systemic failures and barriers impeding a truly transformative and genuine sustainable development. APWLD believes that without addressing the structural impediments to the 2030 Agenda – such as extractive-based neoliberal capitalism, unjust financial, trade and investment agreements, land and resource threats, militarism, patriarchy and fundamentalism, as well as patriarchal authoritarian governance – the transformative vision of the SDGs will never be achieved.

For 2026-2027, APWLD will support 8 organisations from its previous SDG monitoring partners (alumni) to continue the monitoring the SDGs implementation using a Feminist Development Justice framework by identifying data gaps, enhancing the advocacy and campaign work from national to regional, and organising work at the local level. The partners are expected to work either on specific goals they continue to monitor and on cross-cutting issues among the 17 SDGs, as well as issues under the Financing for Development such as debt, tax, private finance, trade and systemic issues. 

Each selected partner alumni will receive USD 15,000 for 12 months to (1) update their Peoples’ Development Justice Reports by identifying and addressing the data gaps and produce popular materials and/or graphics translated into local languages (2) enhance advocacy and lobby work with their governments’ commitments and implementation of the SDG targets using Development Justice as a framework and (3) contribute to strengthening organising, mobilising and campaigning at the national level. 

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

Apply here: Application Form

Please send completed forms on or before  15 November 2025 to April Porteria (april@apwld.org) and Kalpana Rai (kalpana@apwld.org). 

Please use the subject line: APWLD Application – FDJ ALUMNI SUBGRANT 2026-2027_name of your organisation.

For more full details of objectives, activities and selection criteria please see the full Concept Note.