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UNICEF Office of Innovation

UNICEF Climate & Health Innovation Challenge

Amount
Up to $100,000
Deadline
Rolling
Odds
~173 total funded
Effort
1 to 2 days
Can you get this?
Must be a private for-profit company
Must be registered in a UNICEF programme country
Must have an existing open-source prototype with pilot results
Solution must benefit vulnerable children
NGOs, CSOs, universities, and individuals are not eligible
Your real odds
UNICEF has made 173 investments across 92 countries since inception, so the fund is selective but genuinely global in its deployment.
The fund runs one application window per year, and fully open-source solutions are explicitly prioritized over partial ones in selection.
What it takes
Check eligibility and open-source requirements1 to 2 days
Submit Expression of Interest via portal1 to 2 weeks
Await review and board recommendationSeveral week
Worth knowing
Most applicants miss that open-source is weighted in the actual selection criteria, so making your entire stack open before you apply is one of the clearest ways to improve your position.
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