Impact Funding Resources
Foundation S 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme will support innovative, community-led solutions to strengthen resilience against the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in LMICs. The programme prioritises projects rooted in local communities, led by women and young people, and designed to benefit the most vulnerable, notably women and children. Eligible initiatives may include strengthening community health
systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.
The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such as women and children.
systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.
The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such as women and children.
Start Date30 Oct 2025 End Date28 Nov 2025 Funding AmountEUR 50k to 100k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderFoundation S
Grant
Foundation S
systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.
The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such as women and children.
Know more
https://www.foundation-s.sanofi.com/assets/dot-fs/pages/docs/2025_Call-for-Proposals-ENGLISH.pdf
Proposals must focus on the current and future health impacts of extreme heat, air pollution, or both on vulnerable groups especially women and children.
In relation to the core thematic focus areas, proposals should adopt one or both of the following strategies:
- Strengthening community systems for health
- Leverage scientific research and innovative approaches including artificial intelligence
In all cases proposals must demonstrate how they will promote and enable women’s and young people’s leadership in the community responses (for instance through women- and young people-led community organisations) and how they will benefit those most vulnerable to the impacts of these core focus areas (through organisations focused on vulnerable groups such as women and children)
Successful proposals will be aligned with the following approaches:
• Proposals that directly support local efforts to address extreme heat and/or air pollution.
• Projects developed, implemented, and led by community-based organisations to help vulnerable communities adapt to the health impacts of extreme heat and/or air pollution.
• Innovative local solutions, mature or not, that have the potential to be impactful and deployed at larger scale.
• Projects that include an embedded research component. This can include, but is not limited to, generation of community driven data collection or analysis, quantitative health outcomes achieved, monitoring and evaluation systems, and the potential for sustainability and replicability.
• Projects that incorporate a strategy to strengthen local capacity for long term resilience and community health system strengthening. This includes but is not limited to the appropriate transfer of knowledge, expertise and applicable resources as they pertain to the programme, particularly when the applicant is not a local organisation.
• Projects with partners that can provide complementary funding, expertise, data quality control, evidence analysis, sustainability and replication.
• Proposals that emphasise synergy with local municipalities/government-led efforts as an essential part of capacity building and sustainable responses to climate impacts on health.
Eligibility criteria
a) Profile of applicants
The following categories of organisation are eligible for funding under this call for proposals:
• Community based organisations (organisations that are based in the local district/area/region where the intervention will be implemented and where the impacts of climate change are apparent)
• Local NGOs, networks of civil society organisations with a local, sub-national or national reach
• National, regional, international NGOs demonstrating local community involvement at all levels of the project (from strategy to implementation)
