Your Next OpportunityGates Foundation Grand Challenges 2026: Up to US$500,000 for AI-Enabled Family Planning Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Gates Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 Grand Challenges funding opportunity, “AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning.” The initiative will support organisations that can deploy, test and evaluate artificial intelligence-enabled, direct-to-consumer engagement tools designed to improve contraceptive uptake, method continuation and informed contraceptive choice among women and girls of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Applicants should review the official Grand Challenges opportunity page, request for proposals, rules, application instructions, budget template and frequently asked questions before submitting.
- Applicants should follow the official application instructions.
- Interested organisations may register for the webinar.
- Funded organisations generally retain ownership of intellectual property created through their projects. However, project outputs must be made widely available to the intended beneficiaries under the Foundation’s global-access requirements. These conditions are explained further in the official FAQs.
- Applications may be started and submitted through the official Gates Foundation application portal.
- grandchallenges@gatesfoundation.org
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