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We are Driving Innovation for a Sustainable Future for Nigerians

The Grand Challenges Nigeria Project brings local context to advance impactful innovations, build local capacity, and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

"Grand Challenges" is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems across the world. With projects in Canada, India, China, Brazil, Pakistan and several African countries, each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact. Nigeria joins this family of initiatives as the Grand Challenges Nigeria project

Grand Challenges

We are empowering our brightest minds to solve Nigeria’s biggest development challenges across health, agriculture, nutrition, gender, science, technology, energy and sustainability.

At GCNg, we concentrate our efforts on innovations in key sectors that have the potential to create significant impact in Nigeria.

Some of these include:

1. Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
2. Discovery and Translation in Biomedical Sciences
3. Digital Health Solutions and Telemedicine
4. Multiple Micronutrient Fortification and Supplementation
5. Agro-Processing Innovations and Food Systems
6. Climate-Smart Agriculture.

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Some of the Challenges We Face

109

out of 125 countries in the 2023 Global Hunger Index

43.3%

of Nigerians have access to healthcare.

9.4M

people to be affected by internal climate migration by the year 2050 as climate change threatens agriculture

70%

of the primary energy supply comes from biomass, highlighting unsustainable energy dependency.

Join us in changing these from challenges to successes!

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GCNg RFP Application Information Session 1

GCNg RFP Application Information Session 1

Have you started your application to access our seed funding for the “Advancing Innovative Solutions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health” RFP? Do you have questions about the process? You can register for our first information session here: https://bit.ly/4gdmEPX 📅 Date: 18th

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Funding Opportunities

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Advancing Innovative Solutions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Deadline: 31st Jan 2025

Our Advisory Board Partners

Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Nutrition Society of Nigeria Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology FHI360
Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Nutrition Society of Nigeria Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology FHI360