Application Opens: 2 October 2015
Deadline: 15 November 2015
Do you have a creative solution to humanitarian needs? Can you provide an innovative idea that could help people in crises? If yes, then apply for The Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
ELRHA is inviting applicants through its 10th Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) call for applications. It supports organizations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance.
Over the past five years HIF has awarded over 60 grants to organizations working across the humanitarian system, from developing a rapid response wheelchair package to improving menstrual hygiene in emergency contexts.
Grant Information
Grants from £75,000 to £150,000 are available to develop and/or implement an innovation in humanitarian.
Objectives
- Develop an innovation by creating practical, actionable plans and guidelines. For instance transforming designs from the drawing board into real-world solutions.
- Implement an innovation in a humanitarian setting to produce real examples of changed practice, testing the innovation to see how it compares to existing solutions. Often pilot projects are used to establish how an innovation performs in practice – indicating whether it is successful and should be scaled-up.
Thematic Areas
In order to achieve this, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund will work towards:
- 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
To know about application process or more, please visit this link.
