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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.
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
3600
applications received since the opening of the call for proposals
90
innovative projects funded since 2021
43M €
committed by FID since 2021
The projects
91supported innovations
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Latest news
All our latest newsRevitalizing date palm production with an innovative method for sexing plants
Projects funded by FID
19 février 2025
Scaling-up HIV self-testing to improve access to screening in Côte d’Ivoire
Projects funded by FID
29 novembre 2024
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