International Project Grants

International Project Grants support community-based initiatives that advance gender equity for women and girls and that are led by AAUW International Fellowship Alumnae. These grants equip and empower alumnae to do so within the context of their home countries and communities by making funding available to them in order to apply their academic expertise and leadership skills in a way that has a direct, positive impact on women and girls.

International Project Grants are awarded exclusively to individuals.

Applicants must be or identify as a woman

Applicants must be an AAUW International Fellowship alumna and have successfully completed the academic program for which they received a fellowship and all related reporting requirements by June 30th of the year of application.

Applicants must reside and implement the proposed project in their home country for the duration of the grant period.

Applicants must be the primary project director, with control over all programmatic, budgetary, administrative and editorial decisions.

Citizenship & Immigration Status

Grant recipients must be non-U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Selection Criteria

A project’s clear alignment with advancing equity for women and girls and ability to directly and positivity impact these stakeholder groups.

Strength of project rationale – the project meets a demonstrable local need

A clear project design with specific target outcomes and proposed activities and outputs logically connected to the project’s goals.

Project proposals must reflect how community/stakeholder participation is considered in the project’s design.

Demonstrated capacity of the alumna to deliver quality programming and meet established goals and the feasibility of in a time frame and within a budget that is hat is feasible and reflects stakeholder participation

Reflect a commitment to learning and evaluation by (1) incorporating monitoring/evaluation methods that enable assessment of project outcomes; and (2) describing how results and/or learnings from project implementation with stakeholders and/or the communities which the project intends to serve.

International Scholarship & Tuition Services (ISTS) serves as the application portal for AAUW International Project Grants. Please follow the steps below to start the application process:

Review the eligibility criteria to ensure you are eligible

Click the Apply Now button below to access the application and create an ISTS account. If a program key is requested, please use the following program key: AAUW-IPG

Follow the instructions provided in the Applicant Guide.

For any inquiries related to the application process or if you encounter technical issues, please contact AAUW@applyists.com or call (866) 795-4892.