Applying for Funding

What we Fund

At LIIT, we believe that innovation, by which we mean any solution that has potential to address an important development problem more effectively than existing approaches, can come from anyone, and anywhere.

This means that we accept applications working in any of our 7 communities sector in any country.

Any member of the ministry may apply (Terms and Condition Apply). This includes social enterprises, non-profit organisations, ministry agencies, ministry SBO’s. It is recommended that individual innovators, entrepreneurs, or researchers apply through an affiliated ministry arm/organisation/.

An open application window does not mean, however, that all development projects are a good fit for LIIT. We seek out innovations we believe have the greatest potential to improve the lives of millions of people we want to impact and only select those innovations which:

1. Are focused on reaching our end time goals.

2. Are novel approaches which are not commonplace.

3. Can improve upon alternatives solutions.

4. Are backed by evidence of potential impact.

5. Can be widely applied in many different settings.

6. Have the potential to scale to reach millions of people.

7. Are led by strong and dynamic teams.

8. Are ready for investment.

9. Will generate new knowledge on what works.

10. Have a clear role for LIIT.

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