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Crisis Response Funding

We have previously launched ‘Responsive Calls’ that aim to fund rapid research, usually 3–12 months in length, to inform the response to an unforeseen health crisis in real-time. We first did this for Ebola in 2014, and again in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, funding 15 studies to contribute to COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings.

We are constantly seeking new ways for integrating emerging evidence and innovations into live responses. We recently funded the adoption of an innovation in Gaza through our Rapid Response innovation funding and have simultaneously been supporting the uptake of innovations into the response to five ongoing crises in Haiti, Yemen, Mali, Somalia, and the Central African Republic.

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Previous funding

Explore our archive of closed funding opportunities and the work we have funded. Each funding opportunity provides an insight into the learning from the successful grants, as well as the challenges, helping you refine your approach for your own applications.

AI for Humanitarians: Shaping future innovation

Supporting a cohort of humanitarian practitioners to pioneer a problem-led approach and explore the opportunities and risks associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI), we invite practitioners to identify areas of future impact, ripe for further investigation and potential investment.

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Funding Opportunity: GBV Tech Innovation Challenge

This Innovation Challenge looks to identify and support promising tech-based interventions relevant to GBV programming within humanitarian settings.

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Scaling Challenge: Adopting Innovations in High Severity Settings

This Challenge aims to support the scaling of evidenced-based, HIF-funded innovations, by incentivizing their adoption and use in very high-severity settings.

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Innovation Challenge: data-driven inclusion

We are looking to support innovative data collection approaches that will generate action-oriented recommendations on how to make humanitarian action more inclusive of older people and people with disabilities.

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R2HC Call for research in response to current or anticipated humanitarian health crises

R2HC aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises. We are looking for research proposals that respond to a current or anticipated health crisis in a humanitarian setting. Proposals should be context specific and driven by evidence needs identified by stakeholders to inform response to the crisis in real-time.

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Image credits

1. Ebrahim Kutty tells the WRI researcher about how flooding in 2018 impacted his family and him in Kavalappara village, Nilambur, Kerala; photo by Niyaz (community member)

2. Group of people students sitting at table doing writing task; photo by Pressmaster