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The Fund for Innovation in Development: innovating against poverty and inequality
The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) finances solutions with high potential impact on tackling poverty and inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. The Fund is backed up with a rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of the projects and aims to accelerate their large-scale deployment.
Objectives
- Facilitate synergies between innovation and research teams and public partners and policy makers to pilot new solutions, validate their impact and support their scaling-up.
- Capitalize on the results and evaluations of projects to contribute to effective policy design.
Am I eligible?
FID selects innovations financed via a Call for Proposals open all year.
The projects must be located in a low- or middle-income country eligible for Official Development Assistance. The priority sectors are education, health, climate, and gender equality.
All types of organizations and collectives can apply, either independently or as part of a consortium. Applications by individuals or international organizations are not eligible.
You represent:
- A research institute
- A government
- An NGO
- A private enterprise
- A university
You wish to submit a project?
Benefits
- Call for Proposals open all year, for all types of entities and sectors
- Five funding stages geared to the various levels of development of an innovation (from the preliminary phases to scaling up)
88 % of the funds committed by FID
support innovative projects implemented in Africa.
Type: Grant
5 funding stages:
- Preparation grant: Up to €50,000 to prepare the launch of a pilot project in real conditions or an impact evaluation
- Stage 1 – Implementation of a pilot project: Up to €200,000 to test an innovation in real conditions
- Stage 2 – Impact evaluation: Up to €1.5 million to test and evaluate the impact of innovations for which there has already been a pilot project
- Stage 3 – Scaling up: Up to €4 million to support the scaling-up of innovations whose impact has been demonstrated
- Transformation of public policies: Up to €500,000 to develop governments’ capacity to integrate evidence-based innovations into their public policies
Priority sectors: education, health, climate, and gender equality.
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