Applications open for the Refugee-led Innovation Fund
Applications open for the Refugee-led Innovation Fund
Samuel Binja is the Founder and Director at the Kalobeyei Initiative for Better Life (KLiBL), an Refugee-led organisation among those that won The Refugee-led Innovation Fund 2024 through their sprout farming project. © UNHCR/Charity Nzomo
If you’re part of an organization led by forcibly displaced or stateless people and you’re seeking support for a forward-thinking project, this is your chance.
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.
About the Fund
Organizations led by displaced and stateless people make remarkable contributions to their communities but face considerable challenges accessing direct and flexible funding. Too often, they are excluded from existing networks of entrepreneurs and innovators, resulting in poor access to knowledge, information, and resources that could help them amplify their impact.
The Refugee-led Innovation Fund proposes a fundamental shift in programme architecture. It takes a grassroot approach whereby people who have experienced forced displacement or statelessness are directly provided with meaningful financial resources and support to implement innovative approaches.
