To facilitate the transition to scale for commercial entities, GIF may also consider supporting activities that help raise growth capital.Īt the Scaling Up stage, which typically entails greater investments of GIF resources, GIF supports the expansion of innovations that have already demonstrated clear evidence of social impact andĬost- effectiveness. For innovations that are ready to scale commercially, funds could be used to expand the reach of the innovation and demonstrate that the innovator can pass a market test i.e., that it can generate sufficient revenue to cover the costs of providing the innovation to the market or attracting growth capital at market rates. Activities might include: formulating implementation plans or building coalitions and partnerships, efforts to secure political buy-in for large-scale implementation of an innovation, building organizational capacity via implementation, or the provision of technical assistance to scaling partners (such as a developing country government ministry, to prepare implementation plans or design program activities). GIF will allow innovators flexibility about how they use these transition-oriented funds. Funds may also be used to support operations and to build paths to sustainability and scale. During this transition period, innovations that will rely on public resources to scale will conduct rigorous testing of impact and cost-effectiveness, such as through randomized control trials (RCTs) that evaluate the impact of a program or intervention against a comparison group not receiving the program (or through other methods, e.g. Funding at this stage is intended for innovators that require support for continued growth and for assessing whether the innovation can achieve social impact – and market viability, for commercial innovations – at a larger scale. GIF also welcomes applications to explore the viability of innovations that have been piloted but need further refinement.Īt the Test & Transition stage, GIF funds innovations that have already shown promise of success at a small scale in order to facilitate further testing and to build a foundation to scale.
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Key activities could include assessing user demand and willingness to pay for products and services, as well as documenting social outcomes and actual costs of spreading the innovation. This could include introducing an innovation to target customers, assessing user adoption rates and testing for technical, organisational, distributional, and financial viability. For instance, an innovator who had previously received GIF pilot funding could compete for funding to pilot a new business model.Īt the Pilot stage, GIF provides seed capital to field test and conduct small-scale pilots of development innovations in real-world contexts. Innovators may also compete for additional tranches of funding within the same stage. to “graduate” from Pilot to “Test and Transition”) if additional GIF funding is needed.
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GIF will encourage successful innovators to compete for the next stage of funding (e.g. Innovators may apply for whichever stage is appropriate for their level of development. GIF’s Financing StagesĪ stage is defined by how far an innovation is in its development and by the level of evidence that exists in support of its potential for success. piloting development innovations, gathering rigorous evidence of impact or achieving greater scale. GIF seeks to fill market gaps, and is especially interested in supporting promising innovations that may otherwise struggle to find appropriate forms of funding for objectives that align with GIF’s, e.g. These innovations could come from social enterprises, for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, academics, government agencies or any other relevant institution or individual.
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This includes new products or services, policy practices, business models, operational or production processes, behavioral insights, or ways of delivering products and services that benefit the poor, across all relevant sectors. GIF defines “innovation” as any solution that has potential to improve the lives of the poor in developing countries more effectively than existing approaches. GIF also seeks innovations that benefit vulnerable groups such as women and girls, the disabled, minority or indigenous groups, refugees or displaced communities, or other vulnerable populations. GIF supports innovations that benefit people living on less than the equivalent of $5 per day (PPP) in developing countries, and is especially interested in innovations that impact people living on less than $2 per day (PPP).