Sightsavers offers £1m innovation fund to solve development problems
Howard Lake | 9 May 2012 | News
Development organisation Sightsavers has created a £1 million innovation fund to support innovative approaches which illustrate ways to overcome barriers in the promotion of eye health, inclusive education and social inclusion. The funding is available to NGOs, academic institutions, the private sector and disabled people’s organisations.
The winning initiatives will receive up to £75,000 each to implement the suggested proposal over 18 months. Lessons from these projects will be shared widely within the development sector, as well as being used to inform Sightsavers’ own programmes.
This is the first time that Sightsavers has funded programmes in this way. It is being run as part of a three-year Programme Partnership Arrangement with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Director of Policy and Strategic Programme Support for Sightsavers Dominic Haslam said: “Investigating new methods and practices is essential to improving the quality of Sightsavers’ work and the work of the wider development sector. We’re hoping that by bringing different organisations together to overcome these barriers, we can create lasting large-scale change.”
The Sightsavers Innovation Fund was run internally last year as a trial.
Applications must be received by 30 June 2012.
www.sightsavers.org/innovationfund
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