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Grand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact. Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada funds innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada. The bold ideas Grand Challenges Canada supports integrate science and technology, social and business innovation – known as Integrated Innovation®.
One of the largest impact-first investors in Canada, Grand Challenges Canada has supported a pipeline of over 1,400 innovations in 96 countries. Grand Challenges Canada estimates that these innovations have the potential to save up to 1.78 million lives and improve up to 64 million lives by 2030.
Grand Challenges Canada is hosted in Toronto at the Sandra Rotman Centre at the University Health Network.
Supporting bold ideas to strengthen women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response at the community and national levels.
The following are examples of potential Humanitarian Grand Challenges, identified by participants at the kick-off meeting in November 2016:
- Pre-financing humanitarian action in high risk contexts. A social impact bond could use capital market financing properly match humanitarian risk and the need for advanced funding, so that humanitarian actors in high risk contexts can plan, invest and prepare.
- Creating digital safe deposit boxes, accessed via a digital identity, that enables the owner a way to safely and privately store, transport, validate authenticity, and disseminate personal documents, other assets, and information.
- Supporting bold ideas to strengthen women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response at the community and national levels.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.