Grand Challenges Canada and its parent, Global Grand Challenges: Another Organization Worth Digging
Grand Challenges Canada is a member of the Global Grand Challenges alliance. Other members/partners include: Grand Challenges Africa, Grand Challenges Africa, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Explorations (launched by the Gates Foundation), Grand Challenges Brazil, Grand Challenges India, Grand Challenges South Africa, Grand Challenges China, Grand Challenges Ethiopia, Grand Challenges Korea, Humanitarian Grand Challenge.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to host of the Global Grand Challenges website: www.grandchallenges.org
Partners of Grand Challenges Canada according to https://www.grandchallenges.ca/who-we-are/our-partnerships/:
Primary funders:
The Government of Canada
Global Affairs Canada
As per its website, it indicates "Grand Challenges Canada’s programs are primarily undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Global Affairs Canada."
Administration of international peer review of applications in response to GCC's grant calls:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Offices are hosted by:
Sandra Rotman Centre at the University Health Network (UHN) - MARs
www.srcglobal.org
Partners:
Save Brains: A partnership of Grand Challenges Canada, Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The ELMA Foundation, Grand Challenges Ethiopia, the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation, the Palix Foundation, the UBS Optimus Foundation and World Vision Canada.
www.savingbrainsinnovation.net
Saving Lives at Birth: A partnership of Grand Challenges Canada, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
www.savinglivesatbirth.net
The Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace : A strategic alliance of development innovation organizations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the United States Agency for International Development, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and UBS Optimus Foundation. The Marketplace is hosted at Grand Challenges Canada.
www.everywomaneverychild.org
Water Innovation Engine: Established by the United Nations High Level Panel on Water and led by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Water Innovation Engine is a pioneering partnership to stimulate more innovation and investment in the water sector. The Engine brings together governments, funders, and entrepreneurs to foster innovations that accelerate impact for water-related aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals, with the aim of advancing the wellbeing of less-advantaged populations in low- and middle-income countries. Partners: Australian Aid, Grand Challenges Canada, Global Innovation Fund
www.waterinnovationengine.com
Creating Hope in Conflict - A Humanitarian Grand Challenge: The United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, with support from Grand Challenges Canada.
wwww.humanitariangrandchallenge.org
Now aren't we surprised that the same individuals are always involved? KEK