Grants at a Glance
Learn about the grantee partners of the Global Statelessness Fund, our impact across regions and thematic areas, and our future commitments.
Get to know our grantees!
Between July – October 2024, the Steering Group of the Global Statelessness Fund completed the process of selecting the first group of grantees. You can find out more about this grantmaking process and our approach here.
During this deliberative process of nominating and selecting grantees, we strived to maintain a balance across geographical regions and thematic areas.
We are immensely proud of the groups we will be supporting and the impact of their work. On this page, you can find information about our first grantees.
Our impact in numbers
as of January 2025
Grantee partners by region
In line with the extent of statelessness within different regions, we aim to have a geographical balance in the grantees we support.
Currently, we are supporting 4 groups in Africa, 6 groups in the Americas, 8 groups in the Asia Pacific, 3 groups in MENA, and 4 groups in Europe.
Thematic focus
The different ways in which people are affected by statelessness bring forth different and complementary solutions to this pressing issue.
Of our grantees, 48% are working on statelessness as it impacts minorities, 24% are working on issues relating to migrants & refugees, 16% have a gender perspective, and 12% work on statelessness as a broad thematic issue.
Funding women-led groups
In more than 40 countries across the world, nationality laws discriminate on the basis of sex. This means that women’s lived experience is crucial in pursuing meaningful change against statelessness and discriminatory nationality laws.
As the Global Statelessness Fund, we are committed to supporting women-led initiatives and 36% of the organizations we are funding in our first year are led by women.
Registration status
Groups led by people impacted by statelessness often face difficulties in registering their organizations. This puts them at a disadvantage in accessing traditional funding sources and ensuring the sustainability of their work.
We recognize the importance of the work done by groups in more complex and hard-to-reach situations. Together with our partner and fiscal host Open Collective Europe, we come up with tailored funding solutions for each of our grantees, including unregistered groups.
Currently, we are funding 5 unregistered groups who are doing crucial work for and with stateless communities.
What is next for the grantees?
Fully flexible funding
We fund organizations engaged in rights-based work to combat statelessness and discriminatory nationality laws in their countries or regions, or globally. As such, we believe that our grantees are best placed to make their spending decisions and our grants are 100% flexible.
Accompaniment and peer learning
Financial resourcing is not the only catalyst of impact. We will support our grantees to achieve the change they seek through capacity strengthening, peer learning, and opportunities for joined-up action.
Simple and effective reporting processes
We keep application and reporting processes simple, people-centered, effective, and informative.
We do not require our grantees to write lengthy and time consuming financial or narrative reports. Instead, our team will regularly meet our grantees to discuss what is working and what needs changing.
Through this reporting approach, we will stay up to date with the impact of our funds, and the needs and priorities of our grantees.
Peer review committee
We want the Fund to be shaped by those who know best– people who work on the ground with communities leading work addressing statelessness. For this end, we will continue to develop our participatory grantmaking model.
In the next stages, grantees and others from the statelessness field will work alongside the Steering Group members to adjust and develop the criteria for the Fund and help address any gaps.
Our organization truly believes that by working together, we can save more lives than ever before.