Organization: Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)

Application deadline: November 10th, 2025

ABOUT

The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, has launched the Food Policy Rapid Response Fund (RRF) to strengthen advocacy for healthier food environments through evidence-based legislative and regulatory action. The initiative provides one-year grants to support advocacy campaigns that aim to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods and sweetened beverages, increase access to nutritious foods, and counter harmful or weakened public health policies. In addition to financial support, recipients will receive strategic and technical guidance to enhance their advocacy capacity and achieve measurable policy impact within the grant period.

Funding and Duration

Grants of up to USD 200,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months. 

Scope of Concept Notes

Concept notes must focus on one of the following five eligible policy areas:

1. Fiscal Policies: Initiatives that discourage consumption of ultra-processed foods and sweetened beverages (e.g., excise taxes) and/or encourage access to healthy foods and beverages (e.g., subsidies, earmarking of tax revenue).
2. Front-of-Package Warning Labeling (FOPWL): Policies requiring clear, evidence-based nutrition warnings on product packaging.
3. Marketing Restrictions: Comprehensive bans on the advertising and promotion of ultra-processed foods and sweetened beverages.
4. Procurement Policies: Measures prohibiting the sale or provision of ultra-processed foods and sweetened beverages in public institutions (particularly schools), while promoting healthy options.
5. National Food-Based Dietary Guidelines or Nutrient Profile Models: Government adoption of strong, evidence-informed frameworks that discourage unhealthy food consumption.

Organizational Eligibility

• Be based in low- and middle-income countries;
• Demonstrate proven experience in advocacy for policy change and capacity to manage grants of this size;
• Have no financial ties, within the specified timeframes, to industries producing or representing tobacco, ultra-processed foods, or sweetened beverages.

PLEASE NOTE: Joint applications are encouraged where organizations can demonstrate complementary expertise. Up to three co-applicants may submit a single joint concept note.

Country Eligibility

Organizations based in the following Food Policy Program priority countries are not eligible: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Barbados, Jamaica, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana.

For applicants in Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, and Thailand (priority countries under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Cardiovascular Health Program), only concept notes addressing Area 1: Fiscal Policies will be accepted.

Evaluation Criteria

• Relevance to one of the five eligible policy areas;
• Clarity and feasibility of the proposed policy and work plan;
• Strength of evidence supporting the proposed intervention;
• Alignment between proposed activities and budget;
• Public health impact and political feasibility;
• Advocacy experience and organizational capacity.

How to Apply:

Fill the application form in the link below:

Food Policy Rapid Response Fund Concept Note for Applicants (Page 1 of 9)

For more information:

Visit GHAI official website on the link below:

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