Theme

Each year – a new Theme!

Each year the Rights Now foundation selects a theme that highlights our current priority. To qualify, all projects and applications should relate to this particular theme, in addition to the foundation’s overall vision and objectives. Only projects and applications that fall within the stated theme of the application period will be considered by the foundation.

Theme 2025 – Multidimensional Resilience

Rights Now announces a half-million grant to strengthen resilience against multidimensional poverty.

Poverty encompasses a range of different socioeconomic dimensions, such as access to services and social protection systems, the ability to express opinions and make choices, influence and social status, decent working conditions, and life opportunities. This is known as multidimensional poverty, and an estimated 1.1 billion people around the world are currently living under such conditions. Fighting poverty is not just about improving the economy, but about securing fundamental rights. (UN Global Goals, 2024; UNDP, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023; UN Global Compact, 2025)

We encourage projects and organizations applying for funding under the 2025 theme to focus on building multidimensional resilience within society. Strengthening resilience not only helps individuals but also entire communities to withstand and recover from crises and disasters, and is essential for continued human development.

Projects and organizations applying for funding under this year’s theme should aim to build multidimensional resilience in society—for example, by developing approaches and methods that enable social organizing, or by implementing results-oriented actions that strengthen the resilience of groups or areas affected by poverty.

This year’s call for proposals is grounded in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, with a particular focus on the following targets:
1.3 Implement social protection systems
1.5 Build resilience to environmental, economic and social disasters

The application period starts on June 1th. In your application, describe how your project is connected to the relevant global sustainability goal.