Wei San Lee
Women’s Fund Asia (WFA) is a regional philanthropic organisation dedicated to advancing gender equality across 22 countries in South, Southeast, and East Asia. WFA provides flexible, core, and responsive grantmaking to feminist activists and organisations in the region. WFA’s strategy includes emergency and crisis response funds designed to sustain local communities navigating political, environmental, and socio-economic upheavals, ensuring communities can weather immediate emergencies while continuing to drive long-term systemic change. Women's Fund Asia is a founding member and key grantmaking partner of the First Response Fund (FRF). FRF is a global pooled fund designed by and for women and girls in all their diversity. It moves humanitarian response funding to women, LBTQI+ and girl-led organizations in ODA-eligible countries through a global network of national, regional and multi-regional women’s and feminist funds.
Sessions
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Financing Locally-Led Humanitarian Action - Designing sustainable models that work at scale22-Oct-2026Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference