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GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action – Pitch Stage

    The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action (“the Fund”) promotes innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The Fund is open to solutions that leverage digital technology, especially mobile, which anticipate potential humanitarian impacts and enable effective early response

    This funding round will support grantees to:
    • Prevent and minimise the impact of humanitarian crises;
    • Improve preparedness for sudden-onset crises;
    • Enable dignified and inclusive communication and assistance; and
    • Anticipate incidence and impacts of crises and enable earlier and more effective responses.
    Projects should seek to demonstrate:
    • How mobile-enabled technology can be innovatively applied to support communities to anticipate and prepare for crisis.
    • How mobile-enabled technology can be used to make anticipatory action ‘smarter’ (by using feedback, learning and adapting to deliver a more targeted response).
    • How anticipating crises through mobile- enabled technology can inform more timely humanitarian responses.
    • How anticipatory humanitarian mobile- enabled solutions can be inclusive and user-centred.
    • Which business models enable anticipative digital solutions to be adopted sustainably and at scale.
    • What role mobile operators and other digital actors can play in developing, testing, delivering these solutions, supporting proven interventions to go to scale.
    • What partnerships at local and regional levels are required for improving and enabling conditions (infrastructure, access to mobile, regulation, domestic support) so that innovative digital solutions to be adopted, sustained and scaled.
    This initiative is funded by the UK aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and is supported by the GSMA and its members.

    An accessible PDF version of the Pitch Questions is attached below. This is available so that everyone can access the Pitch Questions. It can be used as reference to prepare for the Pitch Questions, however the online Pitch Questions must still be completed and submitted. Email submissions with the PDF attached will NOT be accepted.
    Files
    PDFDownstream_Partners_Guidelines_11_2022.pdf145 KB
    PDFGSMA_InnovationFund_AHA_TC_Nov_22_ACCESSIBLE.pdf136 KB
    PDFGSMA_InnovationFund_AHA_Pitch_Questions_Nov_2022_ACCESSIBLE.pdf220 KB
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    Submissions were due on Jan 19 at 11:59pm.
    Contact email
    GSMAIF@gsma.com
    Deadline
    Jan 19 at 11:59pmIn your local timezone
    Additional Information
    https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/the-gsma-innovation-fund-for-anticipatory-humanitarian-action/
    Frequently Asked Questions
    https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/faqs-gsma-innovation-fund-for-anticipatory-humanitarian-action/
    Terms and Conditions of the Fund
    https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GSMA_InnovationFund_AHA_TC.pdf
    Questions about the Fund
    You can send any questions about the Fund or Pitch Questions to GSMAIF@gsma.com. Please note that questions received after 16 January 2023 will not be answered.
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