Grand Challenges Canada (GCC): Creating Hope in Conflict - A Humanitarian Grand Challenge

Supports life-saving or life-improving innovations to help the most vulnerable and hardest to reach people impacted by humanitarian crises caused by conflict. Projects are expected to take an 'Integrated Innovation' approach, defined as the coordinated application of scientific/technological, social and business innovation to develop solutions to complex challenges.

The priority areas for funding are:

• Safe water and sanitation: bold ideas, technologies, processes and approaches are sought that enable rapid provision of safe water and safe disposal of waste and sewage in the most vulnerable households and/or enable implementers to rapidly scale up programs.
• ​Energy: bold ideas are required to generate energy, particularly alternative energy solutions that are possible to set up and maintain in conflict situations, and that power life-saving and life-improving services such as health, information, water and sanitation, and education.
• Life-saving information: bold ideas are sought that use and improve access to information and data to increase the impact of humanitarian assistance at the local level as well as enable more effective connections between affected populations and humanitarian actors.
• Health products and services: bold ideas are needed that: enable non-experts to provide quality care; empower skilled staff who choose to work in conflict zones; allow faster or less costly importation and distribution of quality essential health supplies in conflict zones; and enable affected communities to manufacture necessary high quality and safe supplies, or sterilise and reuse them.

Funding opportunities:
Overhead 10% (partial)  - Please contact Research Authority if planning to submit.
Seed Funding: $250,000 CAD for 2 years
Transition To Scale Funding: $1,000,000 CAD for 2 years. Matching required - Please contact Research Authority if planning to submit.

https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/