Global Innovation Fund
$9,869,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Recipient country
- United Kingdom
- Fiscal year
- 2018-2019
- Agreement period
- November 19, 2018 – December 31, 2023
- Reference
- dfatd-maecd:064-2018-2019-Q3-00382
Published purpose
The Innovating for Gender Equality Fund aims to invest in innovations that specifically seek to improve gender equality and/or empower women and a portfolio of solutions promoting gender equality from which lessons learned and best practices could be identified, documented and shared broadly. The Innovating for Gender Equality Fund is a sub-fund of the Global Innovation Fund (GIF). GIF is a non-profit innovation fund whose mission is to find, fund and scale-up cost effective, evidence-based innovations having the potential to improve the lives of people living on less than $5 a day. GIF funds proposals from other organizations that aim to deliver development results more effectively, quicker or cheaper than standard practice, through grants, loans and equity investments ranging from UDS $50,000 to $15 million.
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This contribution funds the Innovating for Gender Equality Fund, a sub-fund of the Global Innovation Fund, to invest in innovations that improve gender equality and empower women, with lessons learned shared broadly.
Category: Gender Programs Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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