DCA believes that the most effective ways of bringing about change might not be known to us yet. For us, innovation is new or improved products, services, programmes or processes that create new value for stakeholders and contribute to delivering higher impacts for beneficiaries.
The Innovation Fund is a risk-willing funding entity where we aim to create new solutions to old problems through inclusive and locally led processes.
In 2018 the DCA Innovation Fund was launched with support from our SPA with Danida.
The fund finances innovative projects through flexible funds. From it's launch to 2023, the DCA Innovation Fund has supported more than 74 innovation initiatives in 18 different countries spanning across DCA’s global goals.
Especially within climate adaptation, entrepreneurship, and livelihoods, a wide variety of innovation initiatives have been piloted and tested. Many of these are now integrated into normal programming.
