Elrha funding calls (R2HC research and Humanitarian Innovation Fund)
The single portal where Elrha posts its humanitarian research and innovation calls, including crisis-triggered R2HC calls for research responding to current or anticipated humanitarian health emergencies.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant sizes are published on the funding-opportunities or funding-guidance pages fetched. Amounts are set per call. Elrha reports having supported 350+ research studies and innovation projects and 100+ R2HC studies over a decade.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No live call at the time of checking (7 August 2026). Calls appear irregularly and some are crisis-triggered rather than calendar-driven, so no recurring month pattern is claimed. Recently closed calls included AI for Humanitarians, a GBV Tech Innovation Challenge, a Scaling Challenge for high-sever
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty, Postdoctoral, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Work must sit in a humanitarian setting as Elrha defines it — conflict-affected locations, disaster areas, refugee or IDP camps — which rules out ordinary domestic community research. Calls are time-limited and topic-specific rather than open-door, and the page fetched states plainly: "There are no live funding calls right now." Newsletter sign-up is the practical way to catch a window.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- humanitarian health research · mental health and psychosocial support · gender-based violence · non-communicable diseases · wash · disability inclusion
- Apply at
- https://www.elrha.org/funding-opportunities/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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