Refugee-led Innovation Fund (UNHCR): Call for Applications

"The Refugee-led Innovation Fund proposes a fundamental shift in programme architecture. It takes a grassroot approach whereby people who have experienced forced displacement or statelessness are directly provided with meaningful financial resources and support to implement innovative approaches.

Who can apply?

1. The Fund supports innovation by all organizations led by people with lived experience of forced displacement or statelessness – including refugees, asylum-seekers, the internally displaced, returnees, and stateless people – that are recognized within their communities due to their past significant contributions.

2. Applicant organizations:

a) are required to apply as a team, representing an existing organization made up of multiple community members;

b) must demonstrate a collective structure to qualify.

3. The Fund accepts applications from both registered and unregistered organizations that are well known in their communities due to their past significant contributions and initiatives.

4. Individual applicants are not eligible.

Selected organizations can expect the following:

• Financial support: Organizations can apply for up to 45,000 USD (equivalent in local currency) in funding to test and implement ideas with strong community-based approaches that generate value for community members, not specifically linked to any thematic area or technology.

• Programme and project management support.

• Technical support and expertise.

• Peer-to-peer networking.

• Support will be provided to enable supported organizations to measure outcomes, assess their progress, and gather information to support growth.

Organizations led by LGBTIQ+ persons, women, people with disabilities, internally displaced and stateless individuals, Indigenous populations, and other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply to the Fund.

Please refer to the FAQ “How do you define a ‘refugee-led organization’?” below for a detailed explanation of the Fund’s eligibility criteria.

In 2025, applications are open until August 22."

For more information please visit

https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/refugee-led-innovation-fund/

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