Global Development Awards Competition 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 18, 2025

Applications are open for the Global Development Awards Competition 2025. The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is GDN’s largest and longest-working programme that brings collectively a wealthy neighborhood 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 modern social growth tasks applied by NGOs that profit marginalised teams within the growing world.

2025 Theme: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage

Digital well being is a cultural transformation of conventional healthcare. Digital applied sciences provide highly effective instruments to enhance entry, affordability, and high quality of well being companies. Low- and center-earnings nations (LMICs) are sometimes on the forefront of innovation on this house, providing beneficial classes to the worldwide public well being neighborhood on the way to do extra with much less, impacting well being outcomes, behaviour and information among the many most marginalised communities. The proper mixture of analysis and analysis-led implementation can assist scale improvements to profit bigger teams, or it may possibly allow impactful improvements to journey and be tailored throughout totally different well being techniques.

In recognition of the essential 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)
• The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP)

Grants

• The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD): 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): Winning organisations will obtain grants starting from $25,000 to $50,000, along with mentoring assist from a Scientific Advisor and Technical Advisor.

Eligibility

• The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD): They invite social science researchers primarily based in LMICs to place ahead proposals that concentrate on constructing the empirical proof and the actionable information able to reworking the pursuit of common well being protection via digital options. Research ought to illuminate how digital options affect the pursuit of common well being entry throughout low- and center-earnings nations. 
• The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP): They invite non-revenue 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. 

Application

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For extra info, go to GDAC.