Deadline: 8 November 2017
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking proposals for the 20th round of Grand Challenges Exploration on the topic “Healthy Minds for Adolescent Mothers: Achieving Healthy Outcomes for the Family”.
The foundation seeks bold ideas to meet the mental health needs of the poorest and most vulnerable adolescent and young mothers. They are specifically seeking innovative approaches that leverage technology, social groups and social media to develop the skills and protective factors necessary to successfully navigate life, transition to motherhood, and early detection and treatment of mental health disorders. These approaches will necessarily need to break down stigma and limit damaging gender norms. All approaches should engage end users and stakeholders from the outset, optimizing the intervention design for scale and sustainability. Funding for seed and transition-to-scale projects will be considered. Applicants should specify which type of project they are proposing.
Grant Information
- Phase I projects have a term of 18 months beginning on the project start date. The amount awarded is up to $100,000 USD.
- Awards of $100,000 USD are made in Phase I. Phase I awardees have one opportunity to apply for a follow-on Phase II award of up to $1,000,000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- GCE is open to both foreign and domestic organizations, including non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions.
- Consider approaches that:
- Consider how the needs of adolescent and young mothers may differ from other populations;
- Enable the health and empowerment of young women as an important goal unto itself, and also recognize the dependence of a child’s healthy development on the health and empowerment of their mother;
- Creatively use channels for information that are highly used and trusted by youth and mothers;
- Tackle the main causes of stigma and discrimination for marginalized and vulnerable mothers and adolescents with mental disorders;
- Use innovative approaches to deploy the required human resources in an efficient manner.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Grand Challenges Explorations.