How to find fund resources to implement our project?

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) provides funds for member countries who are facing developmental challenges in sectors of social and economic, including food security climate change adaption, high mortality rates, poor education quality, limited access to safe drinking water, etc.

The qualified organization, innovators, entrepreneurs, NGOs who are working the same field in local communities and do not access to a significant fund resource can provide their proposal and apply to up to 1000000 USD dollars grant. The aims of the grand are to support the Muslim World, those with innovation, facilitate the commercialization of technology power, promote joint activities among member countries, researcher organization, and focusing on entrepreneurship development.

Details:

Deadline: 1 June 2020

Supports by: Islamic Development Bank

Focus areas: science, technology and innovation

Fund categories:

• 50000 to 100000 USD Dollars provides for new ideas with proof of concept.
• 100000 to 150000 USD Dollars provides for science, technology, and innovation capacity building.
• 300000 USD Dollars provides for innovative project scaling.
• 1000000 USD dollars for technology commercialization.

Proposal focus areas:

The proposal should be focused on the following areas:

• Provide solutions such as IoT, Big Data blockchain, and artificial intelligence to track and mentor the COVID-19 spread and another disease for improved system and patient care surveillance.
• Medical supplies, new biosafety laboratory level-3 design technology, and biocontainment.
• Focus on capacity building of health care providers in the relevant fields, including training, deployment of software applications, awareness campaigns, service delivery, or research centers.
• Focus on making point-of-care rapid tests, molecular tests, and diagnostic test quality for detection, diagnostic, treatment, and prevention, including the COVID-19 vaccine.

How to apply:

Interested applicants should read the guidelines carefully, provide their proposal, and open one of the available grant categories and use.

Apply HERE 

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