August 19 is celebrated as the World Humanitarian Day around the world. We also take this opportunity to salute #HumanitarianHeroes and offer fresh information about grants and donors available for humanitarian causes. Here is a list of open funding opportunities and select donors that respond to humanitarian needs across the globe.
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The Humanitarian Innovation Fund to Meet the Needs of Today and Tomorrow
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance.
The funds vision is to make a humanitarian system that is capable of innovating and adapting to meet the needs of today and tomorrow.
Since 2011, the HIF has supported projects with grants via its Core Grant Facility and its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Grant Facility.
Thematic Areas
- Enabling and supporting humanitarian innovators to move creative ideas through the innovation process
- Supporting them in building new partnerships with key actors
- Enabling the lessons from grant funded projects and from analysis of innovation processes in humanitarian contexts to be disseminated more widely
- Strengthening existing relationships between humanitarian agencies, academics and those in the private sector engaged in innovation processes
Grant Information
- Core Grants
The grant process consists of five stages:- The HIF provides grants of up to £20,000 for the Recognition phase of the process.
- A grant up to £20,000 is available for the Invention phase of the process.
- A grant between £75,000 and £150,000 is available for the Development phase of the process
- A grant between £75,000 and £150,000 is available for the Implementation phase of the process
- A grant up to £20,000 is available for the Diffusion phase of the process.
- Water and Sanitation Grants
- This 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.
- Gender Based Violence(GBV) Grants
- Supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), HIF’s GBV initiative aims to create and stimulate innovation approaches to tackling GBV, using targeted resources and partnership brokering.
Eligibility Criteria
Interested applicants can apply for the program only if their projects are innovative and their projects are designed to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain and protect human dignity during and in the aftermath of man-made crises and natural disasters, as well as to prevent and strengthen preparedness for the occurrence of such situations.
For more information, please visit The Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
