The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program focuses on developing innovative approaches and technologies that can lead to radical and sustainable improvements in sanitation in the developing world. The approaches that prove successful can be adapted and extended to rural communities. Major aim of the Foundations WASH project is to enable universal access to sustainable sanitation services by supporting the development of radically new sanitation technologies as well as markets for new sanitation products and services. The Foundation supports many clean water and hygiene projects that have and will deliver significant results. Most of the Foundation’s sanitation projects are in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where the burden of inadequate sanitation is greatest.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French is one of the largest private foundations in the world. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. It had an endowment of US$42.3 billion as of 24 November 2014.
Areas of Focus in Wash
- Transformative Technologies
- Building Demand for Sanitation
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Urban Sanitation Markets
- Policy and Advocacy
Foundation Funding Areas
- Global Health
- HIV
- Malaria
- Pneumonia
- Tuberculosis
- Neglected Infectious Diseases
- Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases
- Discovery & Translational Sciences
- Global Development
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- Family Planning
- Global Libraries
- Maternal, Newborn & Child
- Health
- Nutrition
- Polio
- Vaccine Delivery
- Integrated Delivery
- Financial Services for the Poor
- Agricultural Development
- Emergency Response
- Global Policy & Advocacy
- Tobacco Control
- Vaccine Summit
- G20 Report
- Charitable Sector Support
Focus Countries: Global
How to apply for Grants?
Generally, the foundation directly contacts organizations and invites proposals, but occasionally they publish Requests for Proposals (RFPs) or letters of inquiry for eligible organizations to apply.
The documents that grant-seekers need to complete are – a proposal narrative, a budget and narrative, and a results framework and tracker. The grant-seeker may also complete a concept memo at a very early stage to outline an investment.
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