World Development – Main Grants

World Development – Main Grants is sponsored by The Waterloo Foundation (TWF). Supports large, established organizations working at a regional or national scale in sexual and reproductive health and nutrition.

World Development - The Waterloo Foundation TWF aims to provide funding to organisations to build the basis of sustainable prosperity in low-income countries. TWF is committed to providing support that will be used in a sustainable way with lasting impact, and which avoids promoting a culture of aid-dependency.

All grant applicants should be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach, and show how they align with the Foundation’s priorities.

The Waterloo Foundation supports four principal themes of work to achieve this goal: Sexual and Reproductive Health Improving sexual and reproductive health services Addressing micronutrient deficiencies Improving access to high-quality education Providing sustained access to safe water and sanitation services and promoting good hygiene practices TWF’s World Development Fund has two grant programmes: are given to large, established organisations working at a regional or national scale that can demonstrate the sustained impact of their programmes.

We are currently accepting applications to our Main Grants Programme only within the fields of SRH and Nutrition . Access to Main grants within the WASH and Education programmes is limited to invited applicants, reflecting already established partnerships and a targeted approach to our funding. are given to smaller organisations who are delivering projects on a more localised scale.

We are accepting applications for Small Grants in the fields of SRH, Nutrition, Education, and WASH . At present, we do not accept unsolicited applications to our Small Grants Programme from organisations based outside the UK. We will, however, consider applications by UK-based organisations working in close partnership with local in-country organisations.

Examples of Organisations Funded Some of the organisations that TWF’s World Development programme has funded can be found here: Main Grants for Education Main Grants for Water and Sanitation Main Grants for Nutrition Small Grants for Water and Sanitation Small Grants for Nutrition Please do read the relevant pages and the geographical priorities below to determine your eligibility, prior to looking at our Application Guidelines section.

We receive many more strong applications than we are able to support, and are only able to consider applications that fit with one of our four principle themes and that meet our eligibility criteria. It is not our intention to provide financial support to organisations seeking to alleviate the suffering resulting from high-profile natural or man-made disasters, including the delivery of food aid or shelter.

The focus of TWF’s World Development Fund remains on long-term social and economic development. We will not consider applications for grants in the following areas: the promotion of religious or political causes general appeals or circulars. The principal focus of the World Development programme is to provide support for the least economically developed countries in the world.

We therefore prioritise support towards these countries, for example as determined by the UNDP’s Human Development Index ranking . It is unlikely that TWF will provide support to for work in a country that is not ranked as either ‘low human development’ or towards the bottom of the ‘medium human development’ list. The majority of our grants have been provided to support programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally in South Asia.

We are committed to the principle that development work should have long-term impact, and believe that stable national and local government plays an important role in achieving this. We will therefore prioritise support towards organisations which operate in countries that are secure and politically stable, and we are unlikely to provide support to conflict-affected regions.

We are highly unlikely to consider applications from countries in the top 10 of the Fragile States Index Rankings .