Apply for DLI Innovation Challenge! Awarding Grants to Tanzanians who have Creative Ideas

Deadline: 7 September 2018

Are you an individual, team, or organization with an innovative idea for using data to ensure that the next generation of Tanzanians is the healthiest generation through access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food? If yes, then apply for the Data for Local Impact (DLI) Innovation Challenge.

Applicants are invited to apply for the fifth edition of the Data for Local Impact (DLI) Innovation Challenge that will award grants to Tanzanians who have creative ideas about how to use or combine data in new ways to gain insights or empower people through access to life-changing information.

This fifth challenge window is an opportunity for local entrepreneurs to generate new innovations, technologies, and processes that use data and associated technologies to address nutrition challenges and food security, both of which pose serious threats to the health and well-being of Tanzanians. Innovations in these areas of need can involve data integration from multiple sources, citizen input on community needs, data analysis and visualization to facilitate decision-making, data collection and reporting, improved data flow and sharing, and improved social behaviour change tools and communication platforms to better target information and services.

Focus Areas

Nutritious, accessible, affordable and desirable diets
Support smallholder farmer resilience

Award Information

Individuals and teams are eligible to win up to US$25,000, while larger registered organisations are eligible to win up to US$100,000.
In addition to the grant, the DLI Innovation Challenge team will collaborate with winners to translate their innovative ideas into reality over a period of up to six months.

Eligibility Criteria

Any applicant can only apply for one category of the grant at a time (i.e. larger grants or small grants).
Proposed projects must comply with Tanzanian legal and regulatory requirements.
Applications must improve either the supply of quality data or the demand for data through the production and/or use of open data sets.
Connection to and/or use of data must be explicit in the application.
Applications must be innovative and potentially sustainable.
Applicants must be ready to implement their innovation or scale-up a current project on approval of the application, to be operational within three months after receiving DLI funding.
Applicants will consider the impact of their proposed projects on women, youth, and marginalised communities.
Applications must address the specific challenge theme set for that particular challenge window.
Solutions should target one, a set, or all 84 districts that are considered priorities under PEPFAR 2018 Tanzanian Country Operational Plan (COP) developed in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania.