Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) hub for India, DERBI Foundation, in collaboration with TDR, the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Disease, is looking for health solutions that are supporting and contributing to the achievement of health-related SDGs in India.

They want to recognise creative solutions that are contributing to making primary healthcare delivery more inclusive and affordable for India.

What are they looking for?

• Creative Solution To A Problem In Healthcare Delivery;
• Individuals – Health workers, Students, Citizens and Entrepreneurs;
• Organisations – Start-ups, NGOs, Companies, Universities, Hospitals and Government departments;
• Solutions could be a new service, product, practice, process, or policy.

Program Benefits

• Recognition and Awards: Be recognised both locally and internationally;
• Learning: Opportunity to expand learning and networks in social innovations;
• Mentoring and Market access: To the selected winners;
• Global Network Access: We will share your solution across India as well as internationally through the SIHI Partner Network;
• Showcase: Innovations in digital forums;
• Community: You will become part of the growing SIHI community of innovators.

Eligibility Criteria

• Focused on improving healthcare delivery in any of the following areas:
  • Primary healthcare;
  • Access to health and inclusive care;
  • Quality & affordability;
  • Contributing to health-related SDGs.

• The solution should be implemented in India.
• Operational for more than a year (They are not looking for new ideas but existing solutions)
• The application should be fully completed. All incomplete forms will be excluded.

Assessment Criteria

All eligible solutions will be submitted to the expert review panel and each solution will be reviewed by at least two members of the panel according to the following criteria:

• Appropriateness of the Solution to the need: The approach addresses a healthcare delivery challenge that specifically deals with an infectious disease of poverty or could be applicable to this disease group;
• Degree of Innovativeness: The approach is new, different or a significant improvement within the context to which it is being applied;
• Inclusiveness: The approach has the potential to be used by a large number of people, enhancing equity and access;
• Affordability: The solution is affordable by the poor who are otherwise excluded in the local context or the solution is more cost-effective than the status quo;
• Effectiveness: The solution has a demonstrated positive outcome on the health of the local population;
• Scalability: Within and across cultural, resource and environmental contexts, the solution can be applied to reach many more people;
• Sustainability: The financial, organizational and market aspects of the solution are sustainable.

For more information, visit Derbi Foundation.