GrantType
Updated Jun 12, 2018
Offered by United Nations Children's Fund as part of UNICEF Innovation
Stage | Stage 3: Proof of Concept | |
Implemented In: | ||
Region | N/A | |
Country | Mongolia, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Cape Verde, Comoros, Brazil, Belize, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Ghana, Georgia, Gambia, The, Gabon, Fiji, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Ecuador, Djibouti, Cuba, Croatia, Costa Rica, Congo, Republic of the, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Colombia, China, Chile, Chad, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Botswana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bolivia, Benin, Belarus, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Angola, Algeria, Albania, Grenada, Haiti, Sao Tome and Principe, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Nauru, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Maldives, Malawi, Lebanon, Kiribati, Senegal, Rwanda, Romania, Qatar, Philippines, Peru, Panama, Palestinian Territories, Oman, Nigeria, Niger, Nepal, Namibia, Mozambique, Morocco, Moldova, Mexico, Mali, Macedonia, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Kenya, Jordan, Jamaica, Iraq, Montenegro, Kosovo, India, Honduras, Guinea-Bissau, Egypt, Cote d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Armenia, Tuvalu, Turkmenistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, Timor-Leste, Tajikistan, Suriname, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uganda, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Turkey, Tunisia, Thailand, Tanzania, Syria, Sudan, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Kazakhstan, Iran, Myanmar, Tonga and Pakistan | |
Focus Areas | All Sectors and Crowdsourcing and Open Source Blockchain Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) AR/VR AI |
Target Beneficiaries | Your solution has the potential to positively impact the lives of children. | REQUIRED | |
Planned Usage of Funds | A need for a small amount of money to get it to the stage where the company has proof that the solution works for other people. Maybe another developer or two are needed, design help to communicate what the project can do or some server space. Refactoring something into a new language because the initial one won’t scale. Testing it in a new area. Getting some data points. These are not huge financial investments, but they are what the Innovation Fund can help with, as UNICEF Innovation supports the acceleration of the company’s work. | ||
Potential for Scale | You have anexisting prototype of the open source solutionwith promising results from initial pilots. | REQUIRED | |
Financial Statements | You must be registered as aprivate company.Your company/institution must be registered in aUNICEF programme country | REQUIRED | |
Impact Evaluation/M&E Plan | Your project generates publicly-exposedreal-time data that can be/is measured. | REQUIRED | |
Other | You’re working on open source technology solutions or willing to be open source under the followinglicensesor their equivalent: (i) for software, a BSD license, (ii) for hardware, a CERN license and (iii) for design or content, a CC-BY license, The Innovation Fund does not take equity, instead UNICEF requires that all code, content or hardwaredeveloped and tested be open source and be publicly available. The Innovation Fund provides money,technical support and a network to help such companies grow. Funded projects will be connected toother similar early-stage projects in other countries, which should enable projects to develop faster andbetter. | REQUIRED |