The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) supports organizations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance. It is currently accepting proposals for its Large Grant Facility.
The Large Grant Facility provides grants from £75,000. These grants will be allocated to projects with an implementation period of up to 18 months. These grants will principally support the development, implementation and testing of an innovation.
Although individual organizations can apply, HIF strongly encourages consortia applications that bring together a range of actors and draw on a relevant diversity of knowledge, experience and expertise. For consortia applications a lead applicant must be identified. Lead applicants must be either (a) a non-profit institution such as a non-governmental organization; (b) a public or governmental institution; (c) an academic or research institution.
To submit an application, applicants are required to submit a short Expression of Interest for an initial eligibility screening before completing a Full Proposal. Eligible applicants will then be invited to submit a Full Proposal for review by the HIF Grants Panel.
The deadline to submit Expression of Interest is 22 April 2012. HIF also offers Small Grant Facility to provide support of up to £20,000 for the recognition, invention and dissemination of an innovation.
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