Fondo De Acción Urgente (Urgent Action Fund – Latin America and the Caribbean)

Fondo De Acción Urgente is a regional feminist fund for Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements. They centre feminist integral protection and care in their support of defenders fighting in the transformation of injustice and inequality systems.

• Facebook: Fondo Acción Urgente – LAC

• Twitter: @FAU_LAC

• Instagram: @fondoaccionurgenteal

• Publications and resources:

  • Urgent Action Fund – Latin America and the Caribbean. (2022). Annual Report 2022: ‘A year to meet each other again.’

  • Cordero, T., Enríquez, M. (2020). ‘8 recommendations for donors on care, protection and movement sustainability in times of COVID and Beyond’. Urgent Action Fund and Foundation for a Just Society.

  • Cordero, T., Puerta Santos, B., Carvajal Echverry, L., Stella Ospina Murillo, L., Munarriz Awad, S. (2018). ‘Care at the Centre: our ethical and political commitment’. Urgent Action Fund - Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • María Carvajal, L. (2016). ‘Extractivisim in Latin America: Impact on women’s lives and proposals for the defense of territory’. Urgent Action Fund - Latin America and the Caribbean.