Nexa Funding Opportunity: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (climate x health)
A challenge-fund call for innovations helping local health actors address climate-driven health risks — mosquito-borne infection, extreme heat, and poor air quality — through early warning systems and climate-responsive patient care.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award size is published on the funding-opportunities page fetched. Grand Challenges Canada describes its model as blended finance across grants and investments, and Transition to Scale awards are ordinarily larger than Proof of Concept ones, but no figure appears on the funder's page so none is r
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-12 — passedTransition to Scale proposals due 12 August 2026, 2 p.m. ET (6 p.m. UTC) via Fluxx. Proof of Concept applications stopped being accepted on 22 July 2026. Grand Challenges Canada posts discrete time-limited calls rather than running a rolling window.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Work must be delivered in Africa, Latin America, or the Caribbean and must be an innovation, not a study: Grand Challenges Canada states it accepts applications only for open opportunities and "cannot accept unsolicited project proposals." As of 22 July 2026 the Proof of Concept stream is closed, so only Transition to Scale remains — which requires an innovation already past pilot. Applications go through the Fluxx portal.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- climate and health · extreme heat · air quality · mosquito-borne disease · early warning systems · patient care delivery
- Apply at
- https://www.grandchallenges.ca/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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