Max.Grant: £ 20.000
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative solutions to the challenges facing operational agencies in the delivery of effective humanitarian aid.
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.
Concretely, the HIF will fund projects that support any of the 5 stages of the innovation process. Innovations might focus on creating and implementing new or improved products and services, on new processes, on new ways of positioning work, or on new business models.
Small grants facility, for projects up to £20,000
Small grants are provided for projects with an implementation period of up to 6 months. These grants will principally support the recognition, invention and dissemination of an innovation.
Small grant proposals can be submitted at any time until 15th February 2012. After this date, a new call for proposals will be made following a review of the HIF, which might impact on its strategic focus.
Eligibility
While it is possible for a single entity to make an application to the HIF, we strongly encourage consortia applications that bring together a range of actors and draw on a relevant diversity of knowledge, experience and expertise.
Lead Applicants
For consortia applications a lead applicant must be identified. Lead applicants must be either
- a non-profit institution such as a non-governmental organization;
- a public, governmental institution;
- an academic or research institution.
For-profit entities may be a part of the consortium but can not be the lead applicant/grant beneficiary. If selected, the grant recipient would be solely responsible to ELRHA for the successful implementation of the project.
The lead applicant must:
- Have legal status and be registered in the country(s) in which the project will be carried out.
- Not act as an intermediary but be directly responsible for the preparation, management and implementation of the project proposed.
- Present signed audited financial statements and reports.
Consortia Requirements
Consortia must be able to demonstrate through their members:
- A minimum of three years of relevant operational experience of humanitarian programming.
- Training and/or experience in the area of research and development.
- Understanding and ability to adhere to International Humanitarian Principles and the Code of Conduct for the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
The HIF also encourages financial or in kind contributions from all applicants.
Single Entity applications
Applicants that are not part of a consortium must be able to demonstrate that they can fully satisfy all requirements of both the ‘Lead Applicant' and ‘Consortia requirements'. Single entity applicants must also demonstrate significant effort to engage with a broader audience/stakeholder community through their project implementation and dissemination plan.
Deadline: 15 February 2012
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