Empowering global change through funding
We fund pioneering solutions and robust research to inform and improve humanitarian response. We have supported more than 250 world-class research studies and innovation projects, championing new ideas and different approaches to evidence what works.
Resources and tools for practitioners and researchers.
Transformative ideas funded worldwide.
Incentivising collaboration across the humanitarian sector.
Funding area: research and innovation
We offer funding aimed at generating new evidence and developing proven new solutions to improve humanitarian response. Our combined focus on research and innovation defines us. We understand how they interact and this allows us to fund and support both with confidence, knowledge, and expertise, giving the work we fund an edge, and a real opportunity to become a catalyst for change in global humanitarian response.
Active funding partner
At Elrha a primary commitment is to foster partnerships and empower humanitarian actors at local, national, and regional levels. Our strategy and future direction have been shaped by our values and long-term commitments which have collaboration at their centre. We live by these values – Putting people at the centre; Working with others; Acting responsibly; Committed to learning; Inspiring change – and they are seen in our work within the humanitarian ecosystem and in how we operate and hold ourselves accountable.
Our focus areas
We work in a number of focus areas critical to humanitarian response, providing funding and support to the generation and uptake of new evidence, and the development of innovative new solutions from idea to scale.
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Your guide to Elrha funding
Curious about our funding? Learn more about our straightforward funding process, from how to apply to successfully managing your grant.
Image credits
1. Men with visual impairment walking together in a village; photo by Media Lens King
2. Amarech and other mothers in the village receive support from Health Extension Workers (HEWs) who provide preventive and curative health service to the community from the health post and door to door - Photo by UNICEF Ethiopia.