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Small Grants by Humanitarian Innovation Fund to Develop New Technologies

The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) was launched in 2010 and is a landmark grant-making fund to support organizations working in countries and regions facing humanitarian challenges, such as Haiti, Pakistan and East Africa, to develop, test and share new technologies, products and processes that will make humanitarian aid more effective and cost-efficient in the future.

The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organizations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance.

Funding

  1. Core Grants – The organization’s grant making is based on its understanding of five stages in innovation:
    • Recognition – A small grant up to £20,000 is available for the Recognition phase of the process. This means the recognition of a specific problem, challenge, or opportunity to be seized, in relation to the provision of humanitarian aid.
    • Invention – A small grant up to £20,000 is available for the Invention phase of the process. This means the invention of a creative solution or novel idea, which helps address a problem or seize an opportunity.
    • Development – A large grant between £75,000 and £150,000 is available for the Development phase of the process. This means the development of an innovation by creating practical, actionable plans and guidelines, turning ideas into action.
    • Implementation – A large grant between £75,000 and £150,000 is available for the Implementation phase of the process. This means the implementation to produce tangible real examples of changed practice, testing the innovation to see how it compares to existing solutions.
    • Diffusion – A small grant up to £20,000 is available for the Diffusion phase of the process. This means the diffusion and extended outreach of successful innovations – taking them to scale and leading to wider adoptions outside the original setting.
  2. Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) – The initiative aims to stimulate innovation in emergency water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the HIF seeks to use new innovation management approaches to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by emergency WASH practitioners working in humanitarian crises globally. Since 2011, the HIF has supported the several projects with grants via its Core Grant Facility and its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Grant Facility.
  3. Gender Based Violence (GBV) – Gender-based violence (GBV), and in particular sexual violence, is a global problem. In line with the increased concern for gender issues in emergency settings, practitioners are seeking new ways to translate policy developments into changes at the field level, the HIF will work to design and deliver tailored innovation processes resulting in new thinking and approaches being tested in the field.

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  1. Avatar Roton Malo says
    July 15, 2015 at 4:21 am

    We are a little organization in Bangladesh. We are working for children and women who are deprived of basic needs in rural areas. Can we apply for small grants for our projects?

  2. Avatar abhishek singh says
    June 22, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    LIVE & LET LIVE is team of 5 members.we wants to implement an innovative project on Empowering youth to monitor local development projects and use evidence as a lever for change in nepal. Since eighty percent citizens do not have information to what they are entitled to, and they do not know that they have a right to ask about public fund .In Nepal large sum of various development fund of Nepal are absorbed in Kathmandu by limited concerned authority for their personel benefit .people suffers because of lack of information.our aim is to fight poverty ,injustice & corruption to ensure transparency & accountability in all activities to make development process more dynamic and expedite and bring the citizens more closer to the functioning of governance and as such we are in need of funds for implementing the project in nepal. we are looking for organisation to partner with, may you please assist us to execute this work

  3. Avatar Godfrey Mosako says
    June 4, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    npo based in South africa ,Brits,we are a youth n community developmental orginiasation, we are loking for funding in order to build our Youth complex n continue funding our programmes.

  4. Avatar Adeyemo Adeleye says
    May 28, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    we are. an organisation in Nigeria working on health and media advocacy to promote positive attitudinal changes
    we do this via public presentation in churches, mosque, market places and schools, we have a platform on local TV and radio where people in the community get to interact with health professionals on issues that affect their health.
    kindly asist.