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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.

Innovation Challenge: Increasing the Meaningful Participation of People with Disabilities and Older People in Humanitarian Action

We're looking to increase the meaningful participation of people with disabilities and older people in humanitarian action.

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Innovation Challenge: Supporting the humanitarian community to explore how inclusive preparedness can enable inclusive humanitarian response

Supporting the humanitarian community to explore how inclusive preparedness can enable inclusive humanitarian response

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JOURNEY TO SCALE: Funding for scaling innovation

Journey to Scale (J2S) is aimed at humanitarian innovators who have successfully piloted their solution in at least one humanitarian setting and are now looking to scale up its impact.

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WASH EVIDENCE INNOVATION CHALLENGE: Develop robust evidence on humanitarian WASH innovations

The aim of our WASH Evidence Challenge will be to generate practical, comparative evidence around HIF-funded WASH innovations. The evidence will be useful for both the innovations themselves and the humanitarian sector as a whole. These projects need to be collaborations between WASH innovators, researchers and humanitarian agencies.

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Innovation Challenge: Understanding the barriers to inclusion faced by people with disabilities and older people in WASH humanitarian programming

We’re looking to understand the barriers to inclusion faced by people with disabilities and older people in GBV humanitarian programming: including needs assessments, programme design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

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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