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This Gates Foundation Grand Challenges RFP funds the development and evaluation of AI-powered conversational tools that help women in sub-Saharan Africa access personalised family planning information, with the explicit aim of improving contraceptive uptake and continuation. Awards run up to 500,000 US dollars for up to 12 months, with a deadline of 25 August 2026 at 11:30 AM PDT.
Four objectives are named: generating evidence on whether AI-powered engagement actually increases contraceptive uptake and continuation; identifying which engagement strategies work, through personalised messaging and adaptive conversation; building shared knowledge resources including conversation quality rubrics and labelled datasets; and assessing cost-effectiveness and scalability.
The eligibility bar is operational rather than academic. Applicants must already run an engagement platform in women's or consumer health with active users in at least one target country - Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Senegal, Niger, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia or Côte d'Ivoire - and must bring a credible evaluation design measuring interaction quality, safety and family planning outcomes.
Content must align with national or WHO guidelines. The funding covers deployment, evaluation and learning, and specifically not initial user acquisition, so this is a call for organisations that already have reach and need evidence, not for teams seeking to build an audience.
Awardees must contribute labelled conversation examples, quality rubrics and safety protocols back to the wider field, which makes the shared evaluation infrastructure an explicit deliverable rather than a byproduct.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to nonprofit organisations, for-profit companies, international organisations, government agencies and academic institutions; individuals cannot apply and multi-stakeholder partnerships are encouraged. The binding practical requirement is that applicants must have an existing engagement platform in women's or consumer health with active users in one or more target countries: Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Senegal, Niger, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia or Côte d'Ivoire. Applicants must bring a credible evaluation design capable of measuring interaction quality, safety and family planning outcomes, and must plan to contribute labelled conversation examples, quality rubrics and safety protocols to the broader field. All content delivered through the tool must align with national or WHO family planning guidelines. Awards are up to 500,000 US dollars for up to 12 months and support deployment, evaluation and learning; initial user acquisition is not an eligible cost. The deadline is 25 August 2026 at 11:30 AM PDT, with submission through the Global Grand Challenges application system. Applicants without an existing user base in a target country should partner with an organisation that has one rather than proposing to build reach from scratch under this award. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards are up to 500,000 US dollars per project over a duration of up to 12 months, and since the RFP publishes a ceiling rather than a range, amount_min and amount_max are both set to 500,000. The constraint that determines whether a budget is realistic is not the ceiling but the exclusion: the funding supports deployment, evaluation and learning, and explicitly does not support initial user acquisition. An applicant planning to spend a meaningful share of the award on acquiring the users whose conversations will be evaluated has misread the call - the RFP assumes you arrive with an existing engagement platform and an active user base in a target country, and pays you to instrument and evaluate it. Within that framing 500,000 dollars over a year is generous, because it covers evaluation design, conversation labelling, safety protocol development and analysis rather than product build. The contribution requirement is the other half of the deal: awardees must contribute labelled conversation examples, quality rubrics and safety protocols back to the field, which means part of what is being purchased is public-good infrastructure for evaluating conversational health AI. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was August 25, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Request for Proposals: AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning is funded by Gates Foundation, through the Global Grand Challenges platform. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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