Deadline: 3 July 2020
Innovation Norway is looking for bold innovation projects aiming to improve humanitarian action that saves lives, alleviates suffering and sustains people’s dignity.
They support innovation projects lead by humanitarian organisations where the expertise and technical know-how from the private sector have a role in solving humanitarian challenges. The Programme supports both early stage innovation (Innovation Lab) and scaling and diffusion of solutions that have proven to be successful at the pilot stage (Scaling and Diffusion Programme).
The Humanitarian Innovation Programme is a grant and support mechanism, fully financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and administered by Innovation Norway.
Funding Information
NOK 35 million is allocated to innovation and scaling projects in 2020.
- Applications for Innovation Lab projects may range from NOK 4-6 million (or up to NOK 8 million for multiagency projects with 3 or more agency partners)
- Applications for Scaling and Diffusion projects may range from NOK 2-10 million
The total funding allocated for each programme is subject to applications received.
What they are looking for:
The Humanitarian Innovation Programme is looking for bold ideas that seek to improve resilience against natural disasters or improve humanitarian response in crises and conflict, specifically projects addressing issues related to:
- Protection: Humanitarian organisations’ efforts that contribute to protecting people from violence, abuse and violation of international law due to humanitarian crises. Applications focusing on protection from sexual and gender-based violence are encouraged.
- Green humanitarian response: Humanitarian organisations’ efforts that contribute to more sustainable and more environmentally friendly solutions within humanitarian aid.
- Cash transfer programming: Humanitarian organisations’ efforts to provide direct distribution of money rather than traditional relief items to people affected by crises.
- Health and sanitation: Humanitarian organisations’ efforts to ensure lifesaving basic health services, including prevention/control of pandemics, efforts within women’s, children’s and young people’s health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health and psycho-social support, and the provision of facilities and services for the maintenance of hygienic conditions and the safe disposal of human waste.
Eligibility Criteria
- UN agencies with a humanitarian mandate
- Norwegian humanitarian organisations* with an international mandate
*The organisation must be registered in the Brønnøysund Register, have an office in Norway and a Norwegian Board.
The grant scheme mobilises and supports humanitarian-private partnerships. The humanitarian organisation/agency is the applicant and receiver of the grant. Private companies cannot apply.
Projects involving multiple partner organisations are encouraged. The lead applicant is the receiver of the grant and redistributes to project partners.
For more information, visit https://www.innovasjonnorge.no/no/subsites/hipnorway/apply/