Mérieux Foundation launches Small Grants Program 2025

Deadline: 1-Aug-25

The Mérieux Foundation has launched a Small Grants Program to support local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.

Funding Information

• Selected projects will receive financial support of up to 5000 euros.

Eligible Projects

• Be implemented by local actors: projects must be submitted by the local structure in charge of implementing the project.
• Demonstrate strong local anchoring: links with local authorities, local associations and beneficiaries.
• Harmonized with existing initiatives in the area concerned.
• Consider ethics and gender equality in the implementation and activities of the project.
• Based on a local assessment of the needs of the beneficiaries.
• Demonstrate long-term focus.

Geographic Focus

• Africa
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Egypt
  • Guinea
  • Ivory Coast
  • Madagascar
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Morocco
  • Niger
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Tunisia
  • Senegal
  • Togo
• Americas
  • Brazil
  • Haiti
• Asia
  • Bangladesh
  • Cambodia
  • Laos
  • Myanmar
  • Tajikistan
  • Vietnam
• Middle East
  • Iraq
  • Iran
  • Lebanon

Eligibility Criteria

• Have a status equivalent to that of a non-profit association or a foundation recognized as being in the public interest.
• Have been registered with the authorities in the country of operation for at least three years.
• Non-profit and independent management.
• Carry out an exclusive public interest mission related to the Mérieux Foundation’s mandate: to fight infectious diseases that affect vulnerable populations in developing countries, especially mothers and children.
• Be able to demonstrate at least two years of activity related to the project’s area of ​​intervention.
• Respect the ethical principles of the Mérieux Foundation’s Charter: transparency, professionalism, quality, independence, non-discrimination, respect.
• Not have been subject to a conviction (against the organization or any of its members) for actions contrary to the principles.
• Not be in a state of bankruptcy or receivership.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Not eligible:
  • Student associations and individual applications (scholarship projects).
  • Projects involving only research activities.
  • Projects involving only education and awareness-raising activities.
  • Projects that do not provide a complete application.
  • Projects whose overall budget, excluding the grant requested, exceeds €50,000.

For more information, visit Mérieux Foundation.