Deadline: 1-Aug-25
The Mérieux Foundation has launched a Small Grants Program to support local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.
Funding Information
- Selected projects will receive financial support of up to 5000 euros.
Eligible Projects
- Be implemented by local actors: projects must be submitted by the local structure in charge of implementing the project.
- Demonstrate strong local anchoring: links with local authorities, local associations and beneficiaries.
- Harmonized with existing initiatives in the area concerned.
- Consider ethics and gender equality in the implementation and activities of the project.
- Based on a local assessment of the needs of the beneficiaries.
- Demonstrate long-term focus.
Geographic Focus
- Africa
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Guinea
- Ivory Coast
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Niger
- Republic of the Congo
- Tunisia
- Senegal
- Togo
- Americas
- Asia
- Middle East
- Iraq
- Iran
- Lebanon
Eligibility Criteria
- Have a status equivalent to that of a non-profit association or a foundation recognized as being in the public interest.
- Have been registered with the authorities in the country of operation for at least three years.
- Non-profit and independent management.
- Carry out an exclusive public interest mission related to the Mérieux Foundation’s mandate: to fight infectious diseases that affect vulnerable populations in developing countries, especially mothers and children.
- Be able to demonstrate at least two years of activity related to the project’s area of intervention.
- Respect the ethical principles of the Mérieux Foundation’s Charter: transparency, professionalism, quality, independence, non-discrimination, respect.
- Not have been subject to a conviction (against the organization or any of its members) for actions contrary to the principles.
- Not be in a state of bankruptcy or receivership.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Not eligible:
- Student associations and individual applications (scholarship projects).
- Projects involving only research activities.
- Projects involving only education and awareness-raising activities.
- Projects that do not provide a complete application.
- Projects whose overall budget, excluding the grant requested, exceeds €50,000.
For more information, visit Mérieux Foundation.