Grants to research innovation and the impacts of eg. women-led enterprises or enterprises enabling access to products/services.
Location: Central, South and Far East Asia, North and South of Sahara
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: IDRC
Deadline: 28th July
Sankalp Forum are welcoming applications from promising LMDs working in agriculture, clean energy, and WASH for their 2021 Global Awards. Deadline: 8th August (Global)
Location: Global
Sector: Agriculture, energy access, health and WASH
Stakeholders: Sankalp Forum
Deadline: 8th August
Funding competition for companies with innovative and promising off-grid cold chain solutions for smallholder farmers.
Location: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria and India
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: Efficiency For Access
Deadline: 29th August
The P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership Awards are open for applications from multi-stakeholder partnerships working towards five key SDG areas.
Location: Global
Sector: Energy access, WASH
Stakeholders: P4G
Deadline: 31st August
Funding to develop an innovative approach to solve a challenge faced by people living on less than US$5 a day e.g. a new business model, technology, or new ways of delivering products.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Global Innovation Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Funding to support early-stage SMEs with high developmental impact to scale up.
Location: Africa and India
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: DEG
Deadline: Rolling
Loans to help projects that have been hit by unexpected obstacles to keep on track with impact aims.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Open Road Alliance
Deadline: Rolling
Hosted by WHO and HEPA, this series brings together stakeholders from the health, energy and environment sectors to explore cookstoves standards, use of data in decision making, and more.
Date: Throughout 2021
Showcasing a wealth of resources for renewable energy companies, including market information and a funding database of 100+ financing instruments.
Considering progress towards clean cooking around the world and future ambitions around greater investment, technological innovation and more women leaders in the sector.
Providing the latest market intelligence on products such as solar water pumps and refrigerators whilst also offering pathways to scale on 11 technologies.
Exploring Sendy’s platform, which operates across 7 countries in Africa, and how e-commerce deliveries could reduce challenges of last mile logistics.
Looking at women founders who are creating inclusive and innovative businesses, and considering the opportunities available to them and what’s needed to redress the gender finance gap.
AIP in Uganda will launch with an event on 28th July. AIP is an open-source platform for data analysis, visualizations, and tools that are directly applicable to last-mile service delivery in emerging markets.