Grand Challenges Canada Request for Proposals: Transition to Scale

Grand Challenges Canada is excited to hear about your Bold Ideas with Big Impact! Through our Transition to Scale (TTS) program, GCC supports promising innovations with a proven impact that have the potential to save or improve lives. Grand Challenges Canada are currently investing in the following 5 portfolio areas, and also welcome innovations that intersect these areas:

1. Urban sanitation and hygiene
2. Maternal newborn and child death
3. Community health workers’ models
4. Medical products and technologies
5. Digital health

Eligibility criteria:

• Low- and middle-income country (LMIC) incorporation, and ideally LMIC leadership
• Demonstrated attributable health impact and strong M&E approach (proof of concept already achieved)
• Initial business or financial model
• Match funding: level varies by stage of investment but ideally 1:1 match for GCC TTS funding
• Preference for innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly West and Central Francophone Africa) and female / non-binary led

How to apply:

• Transition to Scale applications are managed through an invitation process. If you have a great innovation to share, please send us a short concept note (no more than 3 pages) or slide deck (no more than 8 slides) to tts@grandchallenges.ca.
• Provide a brief description of your innovation, its impact to date, your strategic goals, and how you meet the eligibility criteria. We will reach out only to select innovations to engage in the full application process.
• Ideas are reviewed on a rolling basis and therefore there is no deadline. However, we encourage innovators to share their ideas soon as resources are finite.
• More details can be found here: TTS Requests for Proposals
  Email: tts@grandchallenges.ca

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