The aim of this competition is to support demonstration-stage projects that have the potential to improve lives of people living in lower income countries and emerging economies. It will support projects that address one or more of the global societal challenges recognised as the UN Sustainable Development Goals through development of innovative, market-creating products and services. This is a two-phase competition. Phase 1 projects must explore the feasibility of running a demonstration project in phase 2 and applicants can use a human-centred design or technical feasibility approaches during this phase. A successful sub-set of phase 1 projects will be invited to apply for phase 2. Funding has been allocated from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), a £1.5 billion fund to support cutting-edge research which addresses the problems faced by developing countries. GCRF will address global challenges through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and innovation, and will strengthen capability for research and innovation within both the UK and developing countries, also providing an agile response to emergencies where there is an urgent research need. GCRF forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment and will be awarded in a manner that fits with ODA guidelines. The webcast recording is now available: https://youtu.be/Ej4oyVi9INY Find out more about the GCRF Demonstrate Impact Programme: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/programmes/gcrf-demonstrate-impact-programme

1. GCRF: Demonstrate impact in
meeting the Sustainable
Development Goals – phase 1
Janet Geddes, Head of Asia and Emerging
Economies
Sept 2019
https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/443/overview
12/09/2019

2. • About GCRF
• Demonstrate Impact – aims
• Competition structure
• Scope
• Basic Eligibility Criteria
• Key Dates and Contacts
Agenda

3. Online Applicant
Briefing
Wednesday 11th September at 1300-
1430 BST
https://ukri.zoom.us/webinar/register/W
N_OsuZbaUfQwuiQAprdLhTBQ
The full eligibility details and
application process will be deal with at
that briefing

4. A £1.5bn ODA-sourced UK Govt research and
innovation fund (launched 2016)
Managed by the Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy
To support cutting edge R&I that addresses
global issues affecting developing countries
Delivered by: UKRI, UK Space Agency, UK
Academies, Royal Society, HE Funding bodies
2019! New Innovation and Commercialisation
strand of work in GCRF
https://www.ukri.org/research/global-challenges-
research-fund/

5. GCRF
https://www.ukri.org/research/global-challenges-research-fund/funded-projects/

6. Support businesses to work with end
users and others and test the
feasibility and viability of a new
solution within the socio-economic
context it will be used in. This critical
for its adoptability and deployment.
Demonstrate Impact – why?
Affordable, appropriate and scalable
commercial solutions to important
development challenges could be applied, but
for various reasons are not yet in place
Our Assumptions
Business Challenges
• Reluctant to enter new markets
due to financial risks
• Investment to support this is
lacking, eg. don’t want new
technology + new market risk
Users and Customer Challenges
• Limited resources and opportunities
to seek and experiment with
innovative approaches and solutions
• Reluctant to buy unproven solutions

7. Demonstrate Impact - aims
• Enable businesses to demonstrate the potential impact of an innovative commercial
solution (product, service, business process) in a real-world context in a developing
country.
• Support projects (and businesses) that show excellent potential for transformative,
positive change in the lives of people in and on the economies of developing countries.
• Transformative change? Ideas that are:
• Likely to lead the creation of markets
• Boost the related infrastructure and value chains attached to those markets
• Create jobs, all within the partner developing country
• Support demonstration-stage innovations (pre-commercial in that market) that need
further R&D (technical feasibility, affordability, appropriateness and attractiveness to
users, customers and other stakeholders in the developing country).

8. Demonstrate Impact - aims
 Solution = responding to a felt need, demand or
gap in market
 Solution = technology + business model +
financial model (ie. not just technology
demonstration but how it will be used)
 Solution = high socio-economic impact potential
and clear pathways to impact mapped out
 Project teams = businesses + potential end users
+ other stakeholders
x – tech push from UK / parachuting in
ideas lacking context

9. What does success look like?
ODA/Primary outcomes:
- Poor and disadvantaged people in
developing countries access and benefit
from innovative and affordable products
and services developed and deployed
- These benefits include:
 direct benefits from availability of a
new product, process or service
 benefits from creation of markets, the
related infrastructure and value
chains attached to those, and job
creation within the partner
developing country
Secondary outcomes:
As secondary outcomes businesses are able
to:
 test the applicability of processes,
products or services in new markets
 find new R&D partners, and
potentially new markets, for their
products and services.

10. Competition
structure

11. Competition structure
Phase 1 – Feasibility
Studies
Why
What
How
much
Investigate feasibility of a
potential demonstration phase
and prepare robustly
Human-centred design and/or
technical feasibility
Up to £60k grant for up to 6
months
Phase 2 – Demonstration
Explore applicability and
appropriateness of solution in
that market + refine/modify
Demonstration-stage R&D
either Ind Research or
Experimental Development
Up to £500k for 1-3 years

12. Why phase? Why feasibility studies?
Phase 1 – Feasibility Studies
Why
What
How
much
Investigate feasibility of a
potential demonstration phase
and prepare robustly
Human-centred design and/or
technical feasibility
Up to £60k grant for up to 6
months
Phase 1 is to enable project teams to:
• identify all partners for a
productive, successful phase 2
• plan how to demonstrate the
innovation effectively in the
partner developing country
• gain confidence in the feasibility,
viability and desirability of the
innovation, in that market

13. End of Phase 1 report
To include:
1. Activities undertaken during phase 1.
2. An implementation and execution
plan for a potential demonstration
phase, including a stakeholder
engagement plan.
3. The roles and responsibilities of all
proposed partners during the
demonstration phase.
4. A results framework for the
demonstration project (impact).
5. A business plan that addresses market
potential and needs.

14. Competition structure
Phase 1
application Selected
projects
approved
Phase 1 grants
awarded and
executed
Phase 1
Report
submitted
Phase 2
application
Selected
project(s)
approved
Phase 2 grants awarded and
executed
Phase 2
projects
completed
Assessment
Up to 6 months
1 month
Report reviewed
and invitations
sent out
Assessment
Up to 3 years

15. Scope

16. Competition details
Up to
£9.3m
,
£1.8m
for
1st of 2
Phases
ODA
eligible
Feasibility
Demonstration
Gender
equality and
social inclusion
Open date: 9th September 2019
Close date: 13th November noon
Feasibility Studies: Up to £60k grant
and up to 6 months
To be in scope your project has to do the following
10 SDGs
DAC list
country
Demo-
ready
innovation£1.8m
£7.5m

17. What is Official Development Assistance?
• ODA is the key measure of a country’s investment in aid.
• Definition = ODA is: i. provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or
by their executive agencies; and ii. each transaction of which:
• a) is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of
developing countries as its main objective; and
• b) is concessional in character and conveys a grant element of at least 25 per cent
(calculated at a rate of discount of 10 per cent).
• Definition agreed in 1969 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC). Also agreed a list of countries that are eligible
to receive ODA (based on GNI/capita) – the ‘DAC’ list.
• Capital investment in a donor country is not regarded as a flow and is therefore not eligible to
be reported as ODA. Even construction and equipment for training and research facilities
related to development issues. However running costs of such facilities may be counted as ODA.

18. Is your project eligible as ODA?
Applications must:
- Seek to investigate a specific problem or seek a specific outcome which will have a
positive impact on the welfare and economic development of a country on the OECD
DAC list
- Provide evidence as to why this is a problem for the developing country
- Identify appropriate pathways to impact to ensure that the developing country
benefits from the GCRF investment in research and innovation.
- Project must include some work within the partner developing country

19. Where can your project focus?
All countries on the OECD DAC list of ODA
recipients are eligible
EXCEPT: Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda,
China, Panama and Palau
http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-
development/development-finance-
standards/DAC_List_ODA_Recipients2018to2020_flows_E
n.pdf

20. What can your project focus on?
• A set of 17 global goals to tackle most pressing challenges facing the world
today, and build a more sustainable, safer, more prosperous planet.
• Launched in 2016, with targets to 2030. A follow-on from the Millennium
Development Goals (2000-2015).
• All 17 goals interconnect, meaning success in one affects success for others.
• Truly global, not just developing countries. International commitment to end
poverty, permanently, everywhere.
• This competition = 10/17 SDGS are in scope

21. 10 SDGs in Scope

22. 10 SDGs in Scope
 SDG 3: good health and well-being
 SDG 4: quality education
 SDG 6: clean water and sanitation
 SDG 8: decent work and economic growth
 SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities
 SDG 12: responsible consumption and production
 SDG 13: climate action
 SDG 14: life below water
 SDG 15: life on land
 SDG 16: peace, justice and strong institutions

23. SDG Targets…
Sample targets… (4/10)
• By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality
primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective
learning outcomes
• By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood
development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for
primary education
• By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality
technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
• By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have
relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment,
decent jobs and entrepreneurship
Achieving
inclusive and
quality
education for
all

24. Gender equality and social inclusion
Your application must explain how your
project is helping to promote gender
equality and social inclusion.
International Development (Gender Equality)
Act, 2014
- Who is involved?
- How will you factor this into your project
plan?
- What is the potential for promoting gender
equality and social inclusion?

25. Scope recap
ODA
eligible
Gender
equality and
social inclusion
To be in scope your project has to do the following
10 SDGs
DAC list
country
Demo-
ready
innovation

26. Out of Scope
Projects that:
- do not have an innovation at a demonstration-ready stage
- do not focus on one of the 10 SDGs in scope, making clear which targets
they are contributing to
- do not focus on an eligible country on the OECD DAC List of ODA recipient
countries (noting that Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Panama, Palau
and the People’s Republic of China are out of scope)
- do not meet Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligibility
requirements
- are likely to increase inequality between different parts of society, within
communities and between persons of different gender and do not take
into account and plan to manage gender equality and social inclusion
issues
- are likely to have negative environmental and social impacts
- do not validate or develop the technical feasibility of innovations and/or
their desirability and usefulness to customers
- have entirely non-civilian applications

27. Eligibility Criteria

28. 28
Who is eligible?
Project Eligibility
 Business-led
 Include an Administrative Lead and Technical Lead
 Can include other funded and non-funded partners from any country,
including businesses, research organisations, public sector
organisations, RTOs, charities and other not for profit organisations
 Can sub-contract up to 50% of the eligible project costs
 Research organisations and other not for profits can claim up to 30%
of the eligible project costs (even where sub-contracting)
 Must include some work carried in the developing country
Project cost £85,000 to £120,000 with a max. grant award of £60,000
Project length Up to 6 months

29. Who is eligible?
Admin Lead Technical Lead
• must be a UK-registered business of any
size
• will be the recipient of the award and will
distribute funding to international (non-UK)
partners (hub and spoke model)
• will manage and be accountable for the
finances for the project in accordance with
the terms and conditions of the award
• must claim funding through this
competition
• can be from any country
• can be a business, research organisation,
public sector organisation, research and
technology organisation or not for profit
organisation
• will lead on the development of the scope,
work packages within the project and other
work from a technical perspective
• must claim funding through this
competition
• A UK-registered business can be both the
administrative and technical lead

30. Organisation /
Type of Activity
Feasibility Studies Notes
Business
(economic
activity)
Micro/Small – 70%
Medium – 60%
Large – 50%
Research
Organisation
(non-economic
activity)
Universities – 100% (80% of Full
Economic Costs)
Other research organisations can
claim 100% of their project costs –
see note:
Other research organisations must:
• be non-profit distributing and
• disseminate the project results &
• explain in the application form how this will be done
Public Sector
Organisation or
Charity
(non-economic
activity)
100% of eligible costs Must be:
• Be performing research activity &
• disseminate project results & explain in the
application form how this will be done
• ensure that the eligible costs do not include work /
costs already funded from other public sector bodies
Funding %

31. - International partners are funded on the same grant percentage as UK organisations
- If there is an international partner, all claims are submitted by the Admin Lead. The
Admin Lead is paid every partner’s claim. The Admin Lead must then pay the partners.
Partners from developing countries (partners with legal entities in an in-scope DAC-list
country) are not mandatory for phase 1 but will be for phase 2. The expectation is that
project teams will use phase 1 to find appropriate developing country partners for phase
2.
International Partners

32. Timeline Dates
Briefing Events 3rd September 2019 (London)
4th September (Cardiff)
5th September 2019 (Sheffield)
10th September 2019 (Belfast)
12th September 2019 (Edinburgh)
Competition Opens 9th September 2019
Submission Deadline Noon 13th November 2019
Applicants informed 16th December 2019
Key Dates

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