Research and Innovation

In support of the Green Deal, common agricultural policy and farm to fork objectives and targets, the successful proposal will focus on how to discover innovative ideas and how to enable the relevant actors to work out these ideas in a co-creative way as from the very start of the making of the proposal. The expected outcome of this topic is to develop sound, coherent and well-prepared innovation generation and support methods, which enable individual grassroots innovative ideas to come to fruition.

This call for expressions of interest is open to individual organizations based in lower- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMIC) in sub-Saharan Africa that have demonstrated expertise in artificial intelligence innovations in agriculture and food systems.  

Only organizations that meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the call document should submit an expression of interest to host the innovation network.

Funder: IDRC

The Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls commits $25 million to fund organizations creating pathways to prosperity for women and girls. This is an open call for applications, and selected charitable initiatives will receive up to $2 million, as well as opportunities for mentorship and additional support from Google.

Funder: Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls

This call for expressions of interest (EOIs) is open to organizations with legal corporate registration, based in low- and middle-income countries.  

We encourage applications from institutions and consortia of organizations with multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, and diverse teams and collaborative projects with partnerships between research organizations, policymakers, private-sector actors, and non-profit and grassroot organizations.

Funder: IDRC

Apply for funding to investigate how COVID-19 will affect society in the medium and long term.

The proposal must address key gaps in our understanding to help:

Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) invite expressions of interest from organizations to design and implement an innovation research network on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate Action.

Call for applications to the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity is now open. Established under the 2005 convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, IFCD is a voluntary multi-donor fund which supports the emergence of dynamic cultural sectors in the developing countries.

Funder: UNESCO International Fund For Cultural Diversity (IFCD)