Grand Challenges Canada

Their mission is to support innovation that saves and improves the lives of the most vulnerable in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and Canada. Their vision is a world in which innovation accelerates the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

" All proposals, should provide an overview of the monitoring, evaluation and learning activities that will take place during the project period, including:
• How proof of concept is defined and how this will be assessed;
• Plans to evaluate the effects on the target health issue and climate adaptation; and
• A strategy to identify shortcomings, challenges, and unexpected results.
Proposals must include proposed indicators (including process and proxy indicators), and a description of how these will be monitored and evaluated over the life of the project. For innovations that are not able to demonstrate proof-of-concept, it is expected that innovators will be able to articulate why their innovation did not work in order to accelerate progress in the sector.   

Projects are expected to demonstrate measurable change in at least one of the primary outcomes. How we define success:
• Evidence that the innovation has the intended impact (adaptation that addresses the human health impacts of climate change) in a controlled or limited setting
• Feasible plans for how the innovation can be sustained in the target region and/or scaled across a larger region
• Evidence of demand from key stakeholders for ongoing implementation and scale "