Foundation S’ Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme 2025 (Up to €100,000 Funding)

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Applications are open for Foundation S’ Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme 2025. Foundation S’ 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme will support innovative, community-led solutions to strengthen resilience against the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in LMICs.

The programme prioritises projects rooted in local communities, led by women and young people, and designed to benefit the most vulnerable, notably women and children. Eligible initiatives may include strengthening community health systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.

Foundation S’ Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme Objective

The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such
as women and children.

Thematic Focus Areas (one or both)

Extreme heat
Air pollution

Programme Strategies (one or both)

Strengthen community systems for health Application of scientific research and
innovative approaches

What They are looking for:

Successful proposals will be aligned with the following approaches:

Proposals that directly support local efforts to address extreme heat and/or air pollution.
Projects developed, implemented, and led by community-based organisations to help vulnerable communities adapt to the health impacts of extreme heat and/or air pollution.
Innovative local solutions, mature or not, that have the potential to be impactful and deployed at larger scale.
Projects that include an embedded research component. This can include, but is not limited to, generation of community driven data collection or analysis, quantitative health outcomes achieved, monitoring and evaluation systems, and the potential for sustainability and replicability.
Projects that incorporate a strategy to strengthen local capacity for long term resilience and community health system strengthening. This includes but is not limited to the appropriate transfer of knowledge, expertise and applicable resources as they pertain to the programme, particularly when the applicant is not a local organisation.
Projects with partners that can provide complementary funding, expertise, data quality control, evidence analysis, sustainability and replication.
Proposals that emphasise synergy with local municipalities/government-led efforts as an essential part of capacity building and sustainable responses to climate impacts on health.

Applicants which have not been already supported in previous funding cycles will be prioritised.

Foundation S’ Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme Funding Details

Funding of €50,000–€100,000 per project per year will be awarded for a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 months.
Proposals must allocate at least 80% of budgets to local activities and demonstrate sustainability, replicability, and alignment with government or municipal systems.

Eligibility Criteria

a) Profile of applicants

The following categories of organisation are eligible for funding under this call for proposals:

Community based organisations (organisations that are based in the local district/area/region where the intervention will be implemented and where the impacts of climate change are apparent)
Local NGOs, networks of civil society organisations with a local, sub-national or national reach
National, regional, international NGOs demonstrating local community involvement at all levels of the project (from strategy to implementation)

b) Geographical focus

This call for proposals is focused on programmes in the following countries. Applicant organisations must be based in the country for which they are applying:

Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Zimbabwe.
Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan.

c) Focus of budget expenditure

A minimum of 80% of the proposed budget must be directly allocated to activities carried out within the local area of implementation.

How to Apply for Foundation S’ Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme

Applicants must submit their concept note in English or French and complete the required organisational information through Foundation S’ online Cybergrants platform found at: https://www.cybergrants.com/sanofi/foundationS_CCH_concept
Requests for clarifications should be sent to the following email address by 7th November 2025: Climate-Health_FoundationS@sanofi.com
Responses to all questions will be published on our website (https://www.foundations.sanofi.com/en) by 14th November 2025.

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Application Deadline: 28 November 2025