Grand Challenges Canada

Overview

Grand Challenges Canada invests in Bold Ideas with Big Impact®, focusing on innovative solutions that save and improve lives. Their investment approach targets pressing global health challenges through various initiatives and portfolios, including maternal and newborn health, sanitation, and global mental health. They utilize blended finance and strategic investments, applying a gender lens to all investments to support innovators on their journey to scale. The current Nexa Funding Opportunity seeks bold, innovative solutions across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The initiative focuses on enabling local health actors to transform climate-driven health risk signals into timely health service delivery actions. The goal is to reduce health harms specifically from mosquito-borne infections, extreme heat, and poor air quality, addressing critical health challenges exacerbated by climate change. Grand Challenges Canada's broader mission is to build a world where innovation helps everyone thrive. They are committed to finding, funding, and supporting high-impact innovations, with a strong emphasis on accountability and transparency in their operations and partnerships. Past initiatives have included the Being Initiative, which focused on mental health innovations for young people in various countries.

What to build

Innovative solutions that enable local health actors to turn climate-driven health risk signals into timely health service delivery action, reducing health harms from mosquito-borne infections, extreme heat, and poor air quality.

Key dates

• Application DeadlineJuly 22, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. UTC)

How to enter

1. Apply for open funding opportunities through Grand Challenges Canada's official website.

Resources

• Nexa Funding Opportunity: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
• How to apply
• Our investment approach
• Innovator resources