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Home»Search by Region»Africa»Global Development Awards Competition 2025

Global Development Awards Competition 2025

Jude OgarMay 9, 20253 Mins Read
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Deadline: June 18, 2025

Applications are open for the Global Development Awards Competition 2025. The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is GDN’s largest and longest-running programme that brings together a rich community of researchers and development practitioners. It is an award scheme that:

  • Identifies talent and supports the career advancement of researchers in the Global South.
  • Funds innovative social development projects implemented by NGOs that benefit marginalised groups in the developing world.

2025 Theme: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage

Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. Digital technologies offer powerful tools to improve access, affordability, and quality of health services. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often at the forefront of innovation in this space, offering valuable lessons to the global public health community on how to do more with less, impacting health outcomes, behaviour and knowledge among the most marginalised communities. The right combination of research and research-led implementation can help scale innovations to benefit larger groups, or it can enable impactful innovations to travel and be adapted across different health systems.

In recognition of the critical role research and innovation play in advancing universal health coverage, this year’s awards will spotlight two key categories:

  • The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD)
  • The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP)

Grants

  • The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD): Winners will receive grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to support their research work, in addition to mentoring support from a Scientific Advisor and Technical Advisor.
  • The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP): Winning organisations will receive grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, in addition to mentoring support from a Scientific Advisor and Technical Advisor.

Eligibility

  • The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD): They invite social science researchers based in LMICs to put forward proposals that focus on building the empirical evidence and the actionable knowledge capable of transforming the pursuit of universal health coverage through digital solutions. Research should illuminate how digital solutions impact the pursuit of universal health access across low- and middle-income countries. 
  • The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP): They invite non-profit Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from LMICs with existing (i.e. ongoing) projects engaged in the development, implementation or evaluation of digital solutions in support of universal healthcare delivery in underserved areas to submit applications. 

Application

Click here to apply

For more information, visit GDAC.

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Jude Ogar is an educator and youth development practitioner with years of experience working in the education and youth development space. He is passionate about the development of youth in Africa.

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