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Innovating against poverty and inequality

The Fund for Innovation in Development aims to support promising ideas with high potential for impact against poverty and inequality, rigorously evaluate their effectiveness and accelerate their deployment on a larger scale.

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Introduction

Evaluating innovative initiatives in synergy with the academic world

FID finances innovative initiatives led by all types of organisations including research institutions, NGOs, governments, companies, etc. Its unique funding methodology by incremental stages is adapted to the different phases of implementation and evaluation of innovations. This facilitates the deployment of solutions with rigorously tested and validated impacts.
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Our Missions

Supporting the innovation cycle of projects

FID provides support through a grant process structured in five stages, which correspond to the different phases of conceiving, validating, and deploying an innovation.

Acting as leverage for scale

FID supports the expansion of emerging or growing innovations by supporting the scaling up of proven solutions.

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Encouraging innovation wherever it comes from

FID accepts applications from all types of organisations. Only projects led by individuals or multilateral organisations are not eligible to apply.

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Our results

Key figures

  • 3000


    applications received since the opening of the call for proposals

  • 72


    innovative projects funded since 2021

  • 37M €


    committed by FID since 2021

  • 60%


    of projects funded in FID’s priority sectors: climate, gender, education, health

The projects

72supported innovations

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Improving basic academic skills with a remedial education program in Morocco

Morocco

Education

Elèves de dos

Reducing ethnic prejudice in Ethiopia through a host family program

Ethiopia

Democracy and Governance

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An innovative medical device to facilitate childbirth in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Health

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Trialing climate-resistant forage grass to support small farmers in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Agriculture

Agriculture

Cost-effective and eco-friendly construction material to provide cheaper housing in Egypt

Egypt

Infrastructure

Vue du Caire

Engaging men and community leaders to advance women’s entrepreneurship in Tanzania

Tanzania

Gender equality

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In Rwanda, a training program based on the graduation approach to establish a pathway out of poverty

Rwanda

Employment

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Group interventions on stress management with non-professionals to improve mental health in India

India

Health

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Latest news

All our latest news

The Summer School “Development Methodologies”, a week focused on impact evaluation

08 juillet 2024

Stage 3 of the Fund for Innovation in Development: fast-tracking the scale-up of innovative solutions

FID Information

29 mai 2024

Improving learning outcomes in schools in Madagascar through a combination of menstrual hygiene interventions

Projects funded by FID

24 mai 2024

Prise de parole durant événement

3 questions with Folake Owodunni on emergency care in Nigeria

Projects funded by FID

03 avril 2024

Agents de secours communautaires

Electric cooking to combat deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park

Projects funded by FID

18 mars 2024

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An event to celebrate FID's growth

16 février 2024

Job offer: Investment officer  - Impact evaluation expert

13 février 2024

Tontines in Cameroon: “The idea for TontineRe first came about from a feeling that we needed to address a form of mass social injustice and offer social protection to the most vulnerable people”  

Projects funded by FID

13 novembre 2023

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