Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) to Reduce Global Poverty and Inequality

[Ana Isabel]

The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality.

FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost-effective solutions.

Objectives:

a) To encourage age and facilitate innovation, from wherever it might come;

b) To accelerate global innovation in the fight against poverty and inequality;

c) To rigorously evaluate new ideas through collaboration with the research community;

d) To support the scale and widespread deployment of the best solutions.

FID funds initiatives in all low- and middle-income countries, with special emphasis on the countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, that are official priorities for French development assistance.

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Eligibility Criteria:

1. FID accepts applications from nearly any type of applicant, independently or in partnership with others, including:

• research institutes and institutions of higher education;

• governments or public agencies;

• non-governmental organizations; and

• private, for-profit companies.

2. Individuals applying independently and public international and multilateral institutions are ineligible for funding.

3. FID accepts applications for funding from innovators and researchers of all nationalities living in all geographies, but specifically encourages applications from:

• organizations based in, led by, and significantly staffed by people from low and middle-income countries;

• people who identify as women; and

• other marginalized populations.

4. FID accepts applications in French or English.

The Fund will provide five types of grants:

• Prepare Grants (Up to €50,000);

• Transforming Public Policy (TPP) Grants (Up to €150,000);

• Stage 1: Pilot Grants (Up to €200,000);

• Stage 2: Test and Position for Scale Grants (€200,000 to €1,500,000);

• Stage 3: Transition to Scale Grants (€1,500,000 to €4,000,000).

FID will accept applications under this Call for Proposals at any point throughout the year; there is no deadline to submit your application.

For more information, please visit https://fundinnovation.dev/en

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