About

The United Nation Humanitarian Innovation Hubis has launched a new procurement for the delivery of their Humanitarian Rapid Response Initiative (HRRI) during the 2025/26 cycle.

The HRRI has delivered over a dozen rapid reviews across a range of crises and themes, including conflict-driver responses, public health crises, and natural disasters.

Stages

• This competitive procurement takes place in two stages:

  • Stage 1: Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ), whereby the expertise and organisational capacity of applicants relevant to the services to be provided are evaluated; and

  • Stage 2: Invitation to Tender (ITT), where organisations considered to hold the required expertise and capacity are invited to submit a proposal for delivering the Services.

Aims

• The overall aim of the HRRI is to provide high-quality, timely, and actionable research and learning products to inform humanitarian response to new and evolving crises. Specifically, it aims to:

  • Co-create knowledge to inform humanitarian decision-making in dynamic crisis contexts, grounded in the lived realities and priorities of affected communities

  • Ensure meaningful inclusion and leadership of local researchers and other actors through equitable research partnerships demonstrated by co-creation, co-authorship and mutual respect and learning.

  • Disseminate and promote uptake of research insights in accessible, contextually appropriate ways to support local action and, where feasible, broader sectoral uptake and learning

Funding Information

• Total fund: Up to £100,000 GBP

• Grant length: 8 months

Eligibility

Output/Deliverables and Activities

• Rapid research trigger proposals

  • Monitor humanitarian developments

  • Identify potential HRRI topics

  • Co-develop research focus trigger memo with UKHIH, including rationale and potential uptake pathways

• Inception reports

  • Identify local partner(s) and co-researcher(s)

  • Co-design study: define research objectives, research questions,

  • methodology, analysis plan, ethical considerations, research outputs,

  • timelines, and communication, engagement and uptake strategy

• Data collection, analysis and outputs

  • Conduct scoping, literature review, primary and secondary data collection, as appropriate

  • Conduct data analysis and validation

  • Share preliminary findings with UKHIH

• Produce final outputs

  • Finalise reports and accompanying communication outputs

  • Submit outputs for UKHIH approval and publication

  • Address UKHIH feedback (and peer review feedback, if undertaken)

• Dissemination and uptake support

  • Coordinate with UKHIH and Elrha communications teams to deliver comms plans

  • Prepare, contribute and/or deliver communication products (e.g. summaries, reports, infographics, digital storyboards, blogs, webinars etc.)

  • Track dissemination and document lessons learned

• Learning papers and reflections

  • Prepare brief internal post-research reflection papers

  • Contribute to complementary learning initiatives, when requested

Post Date: May 26, 2025