Application Deadline: 21 October, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge.
UNICEF is launching a call for solutions from emerging markets in collaboration with India Health Fund (IHF), and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). To maximize impact, UNICEF will foster collaboration between early-stage frontier tech ventures and help scale proven climate adaptation solutions. This dual track approach seeks to drive impact and provide long-term sustainability.
The UNICEF Venture Fund is particularly seeking solutions that:
- address challenges to accelerate results for children
- are optimized for low-resource environments (e.g., low connectivity or limited mobile access)
- focus on reducing, rather than widening, inequalities, delivering results for diverse users and communities
- can deliver in multiple languages, including local and less used languages
Requirements
Companies need to fulfil the following mandatory selection criteria to be considered:
- be registered as a private for-profit company
- be registered in a UNICEF programme country (See the list of eligible countries here)
- have a working prototype or minimum viable product of the proposed solution, ideally, showing promising results
- be open source or willing to be open source
- have the potential to positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable children
- generate publicly exposed real-time data that is measurable
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge
