Learning grant

Funding for learning initiatives related to funded responses, which go beyond the operational project level.

Description

Grant Name: Learning Grant

Grant type: Learning

Deadline: Selection rounds will be organised bi-annually. Applications must be submitted by:

  • First round: before 21st April 2023
  • Second round: before 15th September 2023

Status: Open

Grand duration: Flexible (usually up to 6 months)

Amount available: up to £15,000 (in 2023, the Start Fund can provide funding for up to 6 projects annually)

Open to: Start network agencies who have been awarded funding for, and completed a Start Fund project. Due to donor restrictions only agencies placed on tier 3 of the Start Network’s due diligence framework can apply.

Summary

To meet its Grand Bargain commitments, the Start Fund sets aside one per cent (1%) of its annual disbursement to grant funding to learning initiatives related to funded responses, which go beyond operational project level, for Start Network members to strengthen humanitarian response. The aim of this grant is to ensure that lessons from the initial response are captured, disseminated, and used by the agency and other actors in the humanitarian sector. Funding is contingent on the awarded agency, or agencies, agreeing to share key learning with Start Network members and other relevant audiences.

More information

Guidance document
 

 

Interested in applying for a grant

Please contact: startfundsmeal@startprogrammes.org

Learning Grant in 2022 in numbers

  • 13

    Learning Grant projects

    £245,904

    allocated to awarded initiatives

  • Budget of £254,426

    out of which 97% was disbursed

    72%

    of proposals were successful in securing Learning Grant funds

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Save the Children, Alert 529, Sudan.

Start Fund Learning Grant in 2022

To meet its Grand Bargain commitments, the Start Fund sets aside one per cent (1%) of its annual disbursement to grant…