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Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge - Request for Proposals
Do you have an innovative solution to improve the lives of communities in conflict-affected regions?
We seek bold, life-saving or life-improving innovations that better meet the needs of the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people impacted by humanitarian crises caused by conflict.
We will prioritize funding locally-owned innovations that are closest to those affected by conflict, and which can demonstrate the benefits of more localized ways of responding to humanitarian crises.
Through this Request for Proposals, we will award up to 20 seed innovations with CAD $250,000 each.
Proposed innovations must be relevant to one of three focus areas:
1. Access to energy
2. Access to Life-saving information
3. Access to health supplies and services
Please read the following request for proposals carefully to ensure that your innovation meets the required criteria:
- Request for Proposals - English (pdf, 509.35 KB)
- One-page brief overview (pdf, 3.48 MB)
- Frequently Asked Questions (pdf, 207.92 KB)
Deadline extended: August 29th, 2023 at 14:00 EDT
Registrations to our online application portal are now closed. If you created an account on or before August 17, 2023 at 17:00 EDT, you may still submit your application until August 29th, 2023 at 14:00 EDT
If you have any questions, please contact gro.e1696010978gnell1696010978ahcdn1696010978argna1696010978irati1696010978namuh1696010978@ofni1696010978.
Transition to Scale
In this Request for Proposals, Grand Challenges Canada seeks to support the transition to scale and sustainability of Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. We invite applications from innovators in the following areas: Maternal and Newborn Health, Digital Health, Medical Products and Technology, Community Health Worker Models, Urban Sanitation & Hygiene, and Options for safe pregnancy termination,
Grand Challenges Canada makes investments ranging in size from $250,000 – $3 M CAD (in multiple investments) to catalyze the scale and sustainability of the most promising global health innovations.
Applications to Transition to Scale are managed on an invitation basis. Grand Challenges Canada will aim to provide a funding decision within six months of submission of a Transition-to-Scale application. Interested in applying? Please see the portfolio information below for guidance on our current investment areas of focus, eligibility criteria, and how to get in touch.
- Request for Proposal - English (pdf, 327.42 KB)
- Learn more (pdf, 565.95 KB)