Worth €15 million a year, France’s new development funder takes a broad approach to innovation
Top tips
- Unlike many innovation funders, early-stage grants are available before ideas are ready to pilot.
- The application process is light, but make sure it’s clear how the idea will tackle poverty and inequality.
- Innovation is interpreted as anything that can improve outcomes—not just technologies.
- Having partners from low- and middle-income countries is an advantage, but not mandatory.
In December last year, French president Emmanuel Macron announced a new funding mechanism to support innovation through France’s foreign aid budget. The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) offers five levels of funding through an open call, covering the entire innovation process and aimed squarely at fighting poverty and inequality.
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