The Summer School “Development Methodologies”, a week focused on impact evaluation
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.
Discover FID
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.
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.
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.
Our results
Key figures
3000
applications received since the opening of the call for proposals
74
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
74supported innovations
Discover all the projectsAn app to improve supporting care of young people with disabilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Health
Reducing ethnic prejudice in Ethiopia through a host family program
Ethiopia
Democracy and Governance
Trialing climate-resistant forage grass to support smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Agriculture
Latest news
All our latest news
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
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