Gates Foundation is currently accepting applications for its AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning Grant 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Gates Foundation - AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning Grant
The Grand Challenges AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning program supports organizations deploying and evaluating artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools that directly engage women and girls to improve contraceptive uptake and continuation. The initiative aims to generate evidence on how AI-powered conversations can strengthen family planning services in sub-Saharan Africa.
Benefits of Gates Foundation - AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning Grant
- They will consider proposals for awards of up to $500,000 USD for each project, with a grant term of up to 12 months.
Gates Foundation - AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning Grant Requirements
This initiative is open globally to nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies and academic institutions. Multi stakeholder collaborations are encouraged. Individuals and organizations classified as individuals for U.S. tax purposes are not eligible to receive an award from the foundation as part of this initiative.
They are looking for proposals that:
- Applicants should have existing women’s/ consumer health intervention cohorts in Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Senegal, Niger, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia or Côte d’Ivoire.
- Applicants should have an existing consumer engagement approach - in family planning, women's health, or consumer health more broadly - and an established user base or distribution relationship - characterized by engagement (e.g., monthly active users), not size alone - ideally in at least one target geography at the time of application
- The AI-enabled engagement approach itself can be new and innovative, but the grant period should be spent on deployment, learning, and evaluation, not on acquiring users or negotiating platform access
- Propose a credible evaluation design that measures the quality, safety, and confidentiality of the AI-enabled interaction and downstream user outcomes, including contraceptive uptake, method continuation, or informed method choice
- Have a clear theory of what effective engagement looks like and how interaction quality connects to behavior change - and a plan to test it
- Operate at sufficient scale to generate meaningful findings within the grant period
- Commit to producing outputs that contribute to the shared evidence base - including but not limited to labeled interaction examples, conversation quality rubrics, interaction taxonomies, or safety, confidentiality, and guardrail protocols
- Demonstrate that AI-generated content is grounded in vetted, locally relevant family planning information aligned with national MOH or WHO guidelines
- Are led by organizations with deep contextual knowledge of the target geography and population
- Define their target user and explain how relevant their existing user base is to family planning outcomes - particularly for solutions not originally focused on family planning
- Describe their user acquisition model, including key metrics, and their user retention efforts - recognizing that engagement quality and the human touchpoints before and after the digital interaction matter as much to family planning outcomes as user-base size
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
25 August, 2026
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