Global Development Awards Competition 2025

The Global Development Awards Competition is an progressive award scheme launched by GDN with the beneficiant assist of the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan. The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) 2025 is GDN’s largest and longest-running programme that brings collectively a wealthy group of researchers and growth practitioners. It is an award scheme that:

• Identifies expertise and helps the profession development of researchers within the Global South
• Funds progressive social growth tasks carried out by NGOs that profit marginalised teams within the growing world

For over 20 years, the Global Development Network (GDN) has hosted the Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) — extra generally known as the Japanese Awards. Administered by means of the World Bank with the beneficiant assist of the Government of Japan, roughly US$4 million in awards have been conferred to over 200 researchers and growth practitioners from around the globe.

Underlying the previous 20 years of the competitors is GDN’s perception that helpful and actionable data can’t be completely imported. The Awards thus act as a car to stimulate knowledgeable growth work by means of three pillars: range, expertise and collaboration.

Theme – 2025 Edition

Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage

Digital well being is a cultural transformation of conventional healthcare. Digital applied sciences supply highly effective instruments to enhance entry, affordability, and high quality of well being companies. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are sometimes on the forefront of innovation on this house, providing helpful classes to the worldwide public well being group on find out how to do extra with much less, impacting well being outcomes, behaviour and data among the many most marginalised communities. The proper mixture of analysis and research-led implementation may also help scale improvements to learn bigger teams, or it might allow impactful improvements to journey and be tailored throughout completely different well being techniques.

(Are you part of a researcher from a low or middle-income nation?

If sure, check the decision for the 2025 edition of the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD).)

In recognition of the vital position analysis and innovation play in advancing common well being protection, this 12 months’s awards will highlight two key classes:

The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD)

We invite social science researchers primarily based in LMICs to place ahead proposals that concentrate on constructing the empirical proof and the actionable data able to reworking the pursuit of common well being protection by means of digital options. Research ought to illuminate how digital options influence the pursuit of common well being entry throughout low- and middle-income international locations. Winners will obtain grants starting from $10,000 to $30,000 to assist their analysis work, along with mentoring assist from a Scientific Advisor and Technical Advisor.

The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP)

We invite non-profit Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from LMICs with current (i.e. ongoing) tasks engaged within the growth, implementation or analysis of digital options in assist of common healthcare supply in underserved areas to submit functions. Winning organisations will obtain grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, along with mentoring assist from a Scientific Advisor and Technical Advisor.

By supporting each rigorous analysis and progressive on-the-ground initiatives, these awards goal to drive significant progress towards common well being protection by means of digital options.

The Global Development Awards Competition is an progressive award scheme administered by GDN, funded underneath the Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD) belief fund managed by the World Bank, and generously supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan.

How To Apply

Application Deadline

18 June 2025, 6 pm (Indian Standard Time)

Contact

For queries, write to awards@gdn.int.

If you could have a grievance relating to the implementation of this undertaking or in direction of its future impacts, ship an e mail to awards@gdn.int, with a duplicate to fobino@gdn.int, or check www.gdn.int/awards/grievance for additional directions

Quick Links

About the Competition | Our Approach | Recent Editions of the Competition | 20 years of the Global Development Awards | Global Development Awards Platform | Impact of the Competition

 

For extra alternatives, go to the OFY web site.

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