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Grant and Fund Management
Challenge Fund Guidelines
SIDA
Challenge Fund Guidelines
Sida has been using Challenge Funds to finance entrepreneurs and innovators that are willing to contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Challenge funds offer Sida the opportunity and flexibility to support civil society and private sector initiatives to develop innovative solutions to development problems.
Development of comprehensive guidelines for Sida personnel and partners engaged in the design and implementation of challenge funds
Expected to influence the management of a range of Sida-supported challenge fund programmes.
Approx. 90% of the challenge funds supported by Sida aim to explicitly use market incentives to test and scale innovations which emphasises the importance of private sector led approaches to fund design, management, and grant/ project implementation.
Meta-Evaluation of USAID supported Global Challenge Funds
DFID, Govt. of Ethiopia
Meta-Evaluation of USAID supported Global Challenge Funds
USAID defines Grand Challenges as multi-year partnership platforms, requiring a minimum investment of $15 million for USAID and its partners...
Three funds supporting improvements in the efficiency of agricultural production processes...
Two funds focused on the specific health challenges of Zika and Ebola surfaced new, leading technologies for...
2.2 Million
people in conflict affected regions gained access to improved humanitarian services; and 600,000...
Futuremakers Programme
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)
Futuremakers Programme
‘Futuremakers by Standard Chartered’ is a global initiative launched as part of SCB’s Global Community Programmes strategy...
735,000+
Reached 735,000+ girls and young women with educational programmes to support their economic empowerment.
87,000
Focused on youth employability by supporting 87,000 young people to become job-ready
60,000
Reached more than 60,000 young people with focus on youth entrepreneurship.
Grant and Fund Management
Challenge Fund Guidelines
SIDA
Challenge Fund Guidelines
Sida has been using Challenge Funds to finance entrepreneurs and innovators that are willing to contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Challenge funds offer Sida the opportunity and flexibility to support civil society and private sector initiatives to develop innovative solutions to development problems.
Development of comprehensive guidelines for Sida personnel and partners engaged in the design and implementation of challenge funds
Expected to influence the management of a range of Sida-supported challenge fund programmes.
Approx. 90% of the challenge funds supported by Sida aim to explicitly use market incentives to test and scale innovations which emphasises the importance of private sector led approaches to fund design, management, and grant/ project implementation.
Meta-Evaluation of USAID supported Global Challenge Funds
DFID, Govt. of Ethiopia
Meta-Evaluation of USAID supported Global Challenge Funds
USAID defines Grand Challenges as multi-year partnership platforms, requiring a minimum investment of $15 million for USAID and its partners...
Three funds supporting improvements in the efficiency of agricultural production processes...
Two funds focused on the specific health challenges of Zika and Ebola surfaced new, leading technologies for...
2.2 Million
people in conflict affected regions gained access to improved humanitarian services; and 600,000...
Futuremakers Programme
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)
Futuremakers Programme
‘Futuremakers by Standard Chartered’ is a global initiative launched as part of SCB’s Global Community Programmes strategy...
735,000+
Reached 735,000+ girls and young women with educational programmes to support their economic empowerment.
87,000
Focused on youth employability by supporting 87,000 young people to become job-ready
60,000
Reached more than 60,000 young people with focus on youth entrepreneurship.
Multi Donor
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund-Monitoring and Results Measurement
Multi-Donor
The AECF uses the Challenge Fund model to stimulate private sector entrepreneurs to innovate and find profitable ways of improving access to markets and the ways markets function for the poor, particularly in rural areas.
We worked in partnership with the Fund Manager, KPMG, to establish monitoring and evaluation frameworks to measure and validate results including quantitative and qualitative analysis of the impacts on men, women, girls and boys in rural poor households. We conducted a comprehensive gender review of the AECF and provided guidance for gender mainstreaming.
DFID
Fund Manager for the Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF)
DFID
The Global Poverty Action Fund aimed to bring about tangible changes to the lives of poor people and address off-track Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Fund supported both UK and overseas-based civil society initiatives in empowerment, accountability and capacity strengthening as well as service delivery and innovation.
Multi-Donor
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund Evaluation
Multi-Donor
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), launched in 2011, was one of the first funds for humanitarian action specifically designed to enable innovative ideas to be developed and tested. Grant funding is structured around a five-stage innovation model (recognition > invention > development > implementation > diffusion).
DFID
Amplify Evaluation (Human-Centred Design)
DFID
Amplify was a 6-year accountable grant partnership between DFID and IDEO.org, a not-for-profit organisation specialising in human-centred design. Amplify’s core goal was to test new and innovative funding mechanisms to support innovations, making small initial investments, providing design support to help organisations to test and iterate on new ideas, and identifying replicable, effective solutions that respond directly to human needs.
DFID
UK Aid Match Applications Assessment Services, Multi-country
DFID
DFID’s UK Aid Match programme is designed to support civil society projects contributing to the achievement of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and to engage the UK public with international development issues.
Global Innovation Fund Evaluation
Independent Evaluation of Global Innovation Fund (GIF)
Global Innovation Fund Evaluation
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is a US$200 million multi-donor funded initiative, to support a portfolio of social innovations that collectively open up opportunities and improve the lives of millions of people in developing countries. According to GIF’s innovative ‘Practical Impact’ approach to measuring impact, by 2028, the programme is expected to generate annual benefits of up to US$7.5 billion, equivalent to 83 million people experiencing over three weeks’ of additional income per year.
