Deadline: 04-Jun-2025
The United Nation Humanitarian Innovation Hubis has launched a new procurement for the delivery of their Humanitarian Rapid Response Initiative (HRRI) during the 2025/26 cycle.
The HRRI has delivered over a dozen rapid reviews across a range of crises and themes, including conflict-driver responses, public health crises, and natural disasters.
Stages
- This competitive procurement takes place in two stages:
- Stage 1: Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ), whereby the expertise and organisational capacity of applicants relevant to the services to be provided are evaluated; and
- Stage 2: Invitation to Tender (ITT), where organisations considered to hold the required expertise and capacity are invited to submit a proposal for delivering the Services.
Aims
- The overall aim of the HRRI is to provide high-quality, timely, and actionable research and learning products to inform humanitarian response to new and evolving crises. Specifically, it aims to:
- Co-create knowledge to inform humanitarian decision-making in dynamic crisis contexts, grounded in the lived realities and priorities of affected communities
- Ensure meaningful inclusion and leadership of local researchers and other actors through equitable research partnerships demonstrated by co-creation, co-authorship and mutual respect and learning.
- Disseminate and promote uptake of research insights in accessible, contextually appropriate ways to support local action and, where feasible, broader sectoral uptake and learning
Funding Information
- Total fund: Up to £100,000 GBP
- Grant length: 8 months
Output/Deliverables and Activities
- Rapid research trigger proposals
- Monitor humanitarian developments
- Identify potential HRRI topics
- Co-develop research focus trigger memo with UKHIH, including rationale and potential uptake pathways
- Inception reports
- Identify local partner(s) and co-researcher(s)
- Co-design study: define research objectives, research questions,
- methodology, analysis plan, ethical considerations, research outputs,
- timelines, and communication, engagement and uptake strategy
- Data collection, analysis and outputs
- Conduct scoping, literature review, primary and secondary data collection, as appropriate
- Conduct data analysis and validation
- Share preliminary findings with UKHIH
- Produce final outputs
- Finalise reports and accompanying communication outputs
- Submit outputs for UKHIH approval and publication
- Address UKHIH feedback (and peer review feedback, if undertaken)
- Dissemination and uptake support
- Coordinate with UKHIH and Elrha communications teams to deliver comms plans
- Prepare, contribute and/or deliver communication products (e.g. summaries, reports, infographics, digital storyboards, blogs, webinars etc.)
- Track dissemination and document lessons learned
- Learning papers and reflections
- Prepare brief internal post-research reflection papers
- Contribute to complementary learning initiatives, when requested
For more information, visit UKHIH.
