The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance.
Before applying for one of our grants, please ensure you are answering ‘yes’ to the following two questions:
Before applying for one of our grants, please ensure you are answering ‘yes’ to the following two questions:
1. Is your project innovative?
- Have you identified a challenge or an opportunity for innovation?
- Do you have a solution or idea which addresses the challenge/seizes the opportunity?
- Or is the solution or idea at a stage where it can be developed further & implemented?
2. Does your project relate to humanitarian aid?
Does your project fit the following definition of humanitarian aid?
“The aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering and
maintain and protect human dignity during and in the aftermath
of man-made crises and natural disasters, as well as to prevent and
strengthen preparedness for the occurrence of such situations.”
Core Grants
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance. The Fund exists to support humanitarian innovation. We see this as the process of creating, testing and scaling novel approaches in humanitarian aid, in order to positively benefit communities affected by crisis. Our grant making is based on our understanding of five stages in innovation: recognition, invention, development, implementation and diffusion. This guides our funding and support framework while also recognising that taking ideas from inception to reality is not a simple linear process, and that these stages are iterative and interconnected. Many projects have applied for more than one of our grants, as the innovation develops and grows.
Water Sanitation & Hygiene
Innovating Emergency WASH
This initiative aims to stimulate innovation in emergency water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the HIF seeks to use new innovation management approaches to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by emergency WASH practitioners working in humanitarian crises globally.
Gender Based Violence
Innovating GBV interventions
Supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), HIF’s GBV initiative aims to create and stimulate innovation approaches to tackling GBV, using targeted resources and partnership brokering. The initiative focuses on GBV programming, investigating field-based programme approaches, and efforts to mitigate risks and respond to GBV in emergencies.
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund supports organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative and scalable solutions to the challenges facing effective humanitarian assistance. The Fund exists to support humanitarian innovation. We see this as the process of creating, testing and scaling novel approaches in humanitarian aid, in order to positively benefit communities affected by crisis. Our grant making is based on our understanding of five stages in innovation: recognition, invention, development, implementation and diffusion. This guides our funding and support framework while also recognising that taking ideas from inception to reality is not a simple linear process, and that these stages are iterative and interconnected. Many projects have applied for more than one of our grants, as the innovation develops and grows.
Water Sanitation & Hygiene
Innovating Emergency WASH
This initiative aims to stimulate innovation in emergency water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the HIF seeks to use new innovation management approaches to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by emergency WASH practitioners working in humanitarian crises globally.
Gender Based Violence
Innovating GBV interventions
Supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), HIF’s GBV initiative aims to create and stimulate innovation approaches to tackling GBV, using targeted resources and partnership brokering. The initiative focuses on GBV programming, investigating field-based programme approaches, and efforts to mitigate risks and respond to GBV in emergencies.
Moreinfo: http://www.elrha.org/hif/funding
