Call for Proposals now open: UKHIH Humanitarian Rapid Research Initiative

Overview

UKHIH is launching a new procurement for the delivery of our Humanitarian Rapid Response Initiative (HRRI) during the 2025/26 cycle. The selected provider will chiefly be responsible for:

• Proposing and co-developing potential research topics with UKHIH, ensuring alignment with humanitarian needs, strategic priorities, and timeliness and actionability of recommendations for impact.
• Leading research design, implementation, analysis and results to generate evidence-based insights and actionable recommendations for humanitarian decision-making.
• Producing targeted research outputs to directly support decision-making needs of humanitarian actors within the focal context, and where relevant and feasible, generate insights applicable to other crises.

What is the HRRI?

Since its inception, 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. 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

Selection process

The deadline for submissions is 23:59 BST, Wednesday, 4 June 2025.

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.

How to apply

Proposals must be submitted to information@ukhih.org with contracts@elrha.org in copy. Please ensure your email subject line is HRRI: Research Service Delivery.

For further information on eligibility and how to apply, please find the full Call for Proposals and annexes below.

Grant summary

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