Deadline Date: September 08, 2025

 Donor Name: The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/273237

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has launched a call for proposals Powering Healthcare Innovation (PHI) Fund to address the gap in Healthcare Facility Electrification (HFE) through innovative ideas to help to scale up this important sector that is currently lacking energy access.

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an independent organization, hosted by The United Nations Office for Project Services, with a global mandate to accelerate progress on the energy transition in emerging and developing countries. SEforALL works at the intersection of energy, climate, and development, collaborating with governments and partners worldwide to end energy poverty, accelerate the deployment of renewable energy solutions, and combat climate change. Whilst SEforALL’s Powering Healthcare (PHC) workstream acts as an ‘engine room’, providing the impetus and solutions needed by governments and their partners to increase investment in and the sustainability of health facility electrification efforts. The PHC programme team within SEforALL is managing this project.

This CfP is an activity under UNOPS in support of SEforALL, funded with UK aid via the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) platform.

Objective

• SEforALL’s overall aim is to enable a just, equitable, and sustainable energy transition for every person, everywhere to live a dignified life on a healthy planet. Additionally, one of its three strategic pillars focuses on scalable solutions, with the aim to develop financial, policy and technical solutions that can be scaled across countries and regions. This Innovation Fund aligns with this strategic aim, by focusing on developing innovative solutions that can scale up the healthcare electrification sector to improve global healthcare services.
• Healthcare facility electrification contributes to the improvement of health outcomes, promotes access to sustainable energy for all, fosters sustainable industrialization and innovation, and contributes to global efforts to combat climate change.
• The Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund is a small-grants facility aimed at unlocking such opportunities and ideas and growing innovation in the HFE sector. It falls under Powering Healthcare's Centre of Excellence Pillar 3: Driving Innovation.

Scope of the grant/funding

• The scope of this grant is specifically targeting the HFE sector in low-income countries. The fund will support the deployment of catalytic innovations that can improve access to electricity in HFs and potentially transform the sector.
• The aim is to discover new solutions to address the market more effectively than current approaches, thus the ideas proposed must be different to approaches that are already common in the sector.
• Furthermore, the intention is that these innovations are ones that can be replicated and utilised in other regions or countries. The solutions will target the following areas:
  • Sustainability
  • Data
  • Research
  • Financial models

Funding Information

• The grant offers funding to 3-6 grantees with an overall total available funding of USD 300,000 for a maximum of 10 months. Each grant to an individual grantee is intended to be paid in 4 separate tranches throughout the grant agreement timeframe. The maximum grant funding available for one grantee is USD 80,000.

Targeted Impact

• The expected impact is:
  • Just, equitable, and sustainable energy transition achieved for every person, everywhere to live a dignified life on a healthy planet.
• The expected long-term outcome is:
  • Replicable pathways established in SEforALL-supported countries create a multiplier effect, generating the momentum and innovations for other countries to realize their own Just & Equitable Energy Transition
• The expected intermediate outcome is:
  • More holistic and sustainably designed HFE innovations, plans, pathways, social templates, actionable public goods are scaled and/or replicated globally
• The expected short-term outcome is:
  • Provide HFE initiatives and stakeholders with the data, solutions and innovative initiatives to catalyse further large-scale investments in HFE.

Geographic Focus

• Eligible countries include:
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Ghana
    • Kenya
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Mozambique
    • Nigeria
    • Rwanda
    • Sierra Leone
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Zambia

Eligibility Criteria

• The following categories of applicants are eligible to apply under this Call for Proposals:
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Foundations
  • Indigenous peoples organizations (IPOs)
  • Civil society organizations (CSO)
  • Grass-roots organizations
  • Institutions or federations
  • Ethnic organizations
  • Academic and research institutions
  • For-profit entities

For more information, visit UNOPS.