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Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) Call for Projects

Fund for Innovation in Development (Fonds d'innovation pour le développement)

NontraditionalPilot / seed funding

FID is a Paris-based, francophone-anchored fund backing promising ideas with high potential impact against poverty and inequality, and it is unusual in that its whole architecture is built around evidence: funding is released in seven successive stages matched to a project's maturity, so an idea can move from small pilot through rigorous evaluation to scale without changing funder. It explicitly finances research institutions alongside NGOs, governments and companies, which makes it one of the few nontraditional funders where a social work researcher can be the applicant rather than a subcontr

Indicative award
Amount not published (varies by call)Per-stage grant amounts are not disclosed on the site; it states only that there are seven funding stages matched to project maturity. The published figure of EUR 48.5 million committed to 115 projects since 2021 is a portfolio total in euros, not an award amount, so the numeric fields are left null
Timing
Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The site states the call for projects is open all year round, with innovations selected continuously. No fixed deadline exists.
Who can apply
Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
Eligibility
Open to all types of organisation — research institutions, NGOs, governments and companies — with two exclusions stated on the site: individuals cannot apply, and multilateral organisations cannot lead. The applying organisation must be the project lead. There is no stated citizenship or single-country restriction; the site names no geographic eligibility list, though funded examples cluster in low- and middle-income countries including francophone West Africa (Senegal). A university is an eligible applicant here, unlike most funds in this segment, so a social work researcher can hold the gran
SSWR clusters
Topics
innovation against poverty · staged pilot-to-scale funding · impact evaluation · low- and middle-income country programmes
Apply at
https://fundinnovation.dev/en/
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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

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