Apply to the Creating Hope in
Conflict: aHumanitarian Grand
Challenge program to receive funding of up to $250,000 for new ideas, and up to
$3,000,000 for proven solutions ready to scale up, as well as mentorship,
resources and ongoing supports.
These innovations will involve input from affected communities in
order to provide, supply, or locally generate safe drinking water and
sanitation, energy, life-saving information, or health supplies and services to
help conflict-affected people.
The United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
(FCDO), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Grand Challenges Canada have launched Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand
Challenge.
Focus Areas
- Safe Water and Sanitation: The
program seeks bold ideas, technologies and approaches that address
challenges in clean water supply and access. Funding is available under
Transition to Scale ONLY.
- Energy: The program seeks bold
ideas to generate energy. Particular interest in alternative energy
solutions that can be set up and maintained in conflict situations, and
that power life-saving or life-improving services such as schools,
hospitals, and marketplaces, on or off-grid.
- Life-Saving Information: The
program seeks bold ideas that use and improve access to information and
data at the local level, and provides more effective two-way connections
between affected populations and humanitarians.
- Health Supplies and Services:
The program seeks bold ideas that strengthen healthcare infrastructure and
increase the capacity and skills of healthcare workers in conflict
affected settings.
Funding Information
This program will fund up to 15 seed projects at
up to $250,000 CAD each, along with basic acceleration support, over a maximum
period of eighteen (18) months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include
social enterprises and other recognized institutions (e.g., nonprofit
organizations and for-profit companies) that:
- are formed and legally
incorporated
- can successfully execute the
activities in their respective technical area
- can receive and administer
grant funding.
- Sole proprietorships are not
eligible for funding.
- In the past experience, have
found that multilateral organizations such as the UN are typically unable
to agree to the terms and conditions of funding agreements. The program
highly recommends that these organizations instead apply through a local
eligible partner organization.
- A project can have only one
Project Lead, who must be affiliated with the institution from which the
proposal is being submitted.
- A Project Lead may only be
listed on one (1) application to this Request for Proposals.
- An institution may be the
applicant on multiple applications, provided all applications have
different Project Leads.
- Applications must include all
required information. Only complete applications will be considered by the
Review Committee.
- The Humanitarian Grand
Challenge partners may, at any time and at their sole discretion, modify
eligibility criteria with respect to individual applicants, Project Leads
and/or eligible countries, to the extent that such modifications do not
materially undermine the review process.
Post Date - 07-Oct-2020