Apply: GSMA Climate Change Innovation Fund

Deadline: 09 January, 2022

Applications are now open for the 2022 GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation.

The fund is designed to help in accelerating the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable populations to adapt, anticipate and absorb the negative impacts of climate change.

Benefits

  • Successful applicants will receive an equity-free grant of between £100,000 and £250,000

Eligibility

  • Be a small and growing enterprise or startup leveraging digital technology, especially mobile, to deliver climate resilience and adaptation solutions to low-income and vulnerable populations
  • Have active users and commercial revenue (users and revenue from any products or services offered by the organisation) in at least one eligible country
  • Be an entity registered and operating in the country of project implementation (whether domestic or foreign-owned or a joint venture)
  • In cases where responsibility for service delivery lies with a downstream partner, rather than the applicant, for example, service delivery by a local government, it may be acceptable for the applicant to be registered in a country other than that of project implementation
  • Be fully compliant with relevant business licencing, taxation, employee and other regulations in all applicable countries of grant project operation
  • Be registered and have a bank account in the country to receive the grant money (if not the same as the project implementation country)

To apply and for more information, click here.

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