The Refugee-led Innovation Fund is accepting applications from organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people! Organizations can apply directly via the Innovation Service website by 22 August 2025.
How to apply?
Organizations can apply directly via the Innovation Service website by 22 August 2025. For detailed information, please refer to the Refugee-led Innovation Fund website. Questions about the Fund can be directed to [email protected].
The application form is available in Spanish, English, French and Arabic but you can submit your proposal in any language. You can find some tips on preparing a good proposal in Spanish and English.
What is Refugee-led Innovation Fund?
The Refugee-led Innovation Fund champions the creativity of all displaced and stateless people. It aims to reshape their participation in the delivery of humanitarian work by ensuring they take centre stage in the decisions affecting their lives, leading the identification of needs and the design of innovative solutions. The Fund provides holistic support – combining financial resources, mentoring, and other expertise – directly to organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people, to enable them to design and deliver new interventions that have a lasting positive impact on their communities.
Since its launch in 2022, the Fund has supported 54 projects across 36 countries, positively benefitting more than 160,000 members of forcibly displaced, stateless, and host communities. Whether leveraging environmental therapy for psychosocial wellbeing in Syria or supporting refugee entrepreneurs through pay-it-forward microloans in Uganda, these projects are making an outsize impact.
Who can apply?
The Fund accepts applications from both registered and unregistered organizations – at least 50% of whose leadership structures are made up of forcibly displaced and stateless people – that are well known in their communities due to their past significant contributions and initiatives.
Applicants are required to apply as a team, representing an existing organization made up of multiple community members. Individual applicants are not eligible.
Additional attention will be given to ensuring organizations led by LGBTIQ+ persons, women, people with disabilities, internally displaced and stateless individuals, Indigenous populations, and other underrepresented groups receive support and encouragement to apply to the Fund.
What does the Fund offer?
Selected organizations can expect the following;
• Financial support
• Programme and project management support
• Technical support and expertise
• Peer-to-peer networking
• An emphasis on learning
UNHCR Brazil will call for information sessions in different regions with interested refugee-led organizations. More details will be provided on this page in the coming days.
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