Grand Challenges Global Partnership Grants Awarded

The Grand Challenges Network, a global family of partners fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems, is awarding almost 60 grants to innovators in Africa, the Americas, and Asia to address the impact of climate change on health, agriculture, and gender equality. This Challenge, co-developed and supported by a total of 10 different funders, was intended to help create sustainable solutions for challenges resulting from the intersection between climate change, health, agriculture and gender that are disproportionately affecting communities in low- and middle-income countries. The individual projects range from developing early warning systems for climate-driven disease outbreaks to designing gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture solutions, but the innovators will make a difference collectively by sharing knowledge, setting priorities for the field, and collaborating on future work to respond to the existential crisis of climate change.

In addition, more than 50 grants were awarded to primary investigators in 30 different countries under six other Gates Foundation Grand Challenges requests-for-proposals.

Read summaries of all the grants awarded here. The official press release from the Grand Challenges Partners can be found here.