Application Deadline: July 27, 2025
Location: Nigeria and Ethiopia
About the Grant
Save the Children is looking for local organizations in Nigeria and Ethiopia who have unique ideas to remove childhood immunization hurdles. The Immunization Accelerator, funded by GSK, will provide selected Innovation Partners with up to $100,000 and support for up to 18 months to test, improve, and provide evidence for potentially viable techniques.
The award focuses on projects in the testing or early evidence-generation stages that aim to minimize the number of zero-dose and under-immunized children. Selected partners will also receive technical assistance with research, piloting, and assessment.
Benefits
- Successful applicants will become Innovation Partners.
- Funding for projects to generate evidence (conduct research and implement solutions) for up to 18 months (with potential for extension).
- Support for the design, piloting, and evaluation of your project.
- Award of up to US$100,000 per project.
What You Can Use Funding For:
- The grant can be used to fund direct costs related to the project only, which includes costs for equipment, fieldwork and data collection, consumables and research assistance, travel to conferences, subsistence, and conference fees.
- The grant can only be used to deliver the objectives stated in the grant application.
- The grant may be used to contract out elements of the work where required; however, the grantee is not permitted to make sub-grants. For the purposes of these conditions, to “contract out” means to hire someone outside of your organization to do a job or service for you. This usually means making a formal agreement about what they will do and how much they will be paid.
- Organisational overhead costs will be paid not exceeding 8% of direct costs.
Who Can Apply
- A not-for-profit organization / civil society organisation (CSO)
- A charity or non-government organisation (NGO)
- An academic institution
- A research and technology organization (RTO)
- A business of any size
ALL of the above entities must –
- Be a legally registered entity in Nigeria or Ethiopia.
- Conduct their research and/or operations in Nigeria or Ethiopia.
- Be able to demonstrate a track record in these regions.
Please note: government entities are not eligible.
Selection Criteria
- Innovations may be on the supply or demand side, be a product, service, approach, or a system change, or be behavioral or educational in nature.
- The innovation must be at the testing/evidence generation stage of the innovation cycle, with some initial indication of successfully addressing or showing promising work towards addressing a priority immunisation barrier.
- Your project submission should indicate how funding and support from the Accelerator will enable you to generate new and actionable evidence regarding the effectiveness of your new (or newly applied) approach in addressing an immunisation barrier OR if you already have a strong evidence base, how funding and support from the Accelerator will otherwise help you to advance your innovation to the next stage.
The following will not be supported:
- Projects that lack an innovative component and primarily replicate existing approaches without significant adaptation or novel implementation.
- Concepts that are purely theoretical or have not been tested in any form of practice, pilot, or prior implementation.
- General healthcare interventions that do not specifically address barriers to vaccine access, uptake, or delivery.
- Proposals that rely solely on awareness campaigns without integrating measurable engagement or behaviour change strategies.
How to Apply
You must submit your application using our online form. You cannot save your application, so will need to complete the application in one sitting. We recommend you draft your answers to the application questions in a word document or similar format and when you are ready to submit your answers copy and paste them into the application form.
Application form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=NImijg3S7keqILltXqM_cM-znI9Gy0ZBkspbPqrm5rdUMkRCNTJZT0EyQlhQT1VGMzFNWVAwU0xBUy4u&route=shorturl
Please Note:
- Applications must be completed in English.
- Applications will only be accepted via the online application form. If you have any difficulties completing the application online please get in touch and we will be happy to help.
- Make sure you complete all sections of the online form as incomplete forms will be ineligible.
- Submissions without a budget using the template format are also ineligible.
- Applicants may only submit one application.
For more information, please visit Save the Children Webpage:
https://www.stc-accelerator.org/apply/
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