UN Global Pulse Accelerator Cohort 4

The UN Global Pulse Accelerator is the United Nations’ programme to support the scaling of promising, innovative solutions, ensuring that exceptional UN-led pilots maximize their impact for the people we serve. The programme supports UN-led teams in developing sustainable, realistic and impactful scaling strategies for their innovative solutions. Those with the most compelling strategies will be awarded a grant and tailored mentoring to help implement them.

Provides grants + tailored mentoring to develop sustainable scaling strategies.

Focus areas:

• Data, digital technologies, and AI as enabling components
• Human‑centred, co‑creation approaches
• Solutions addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Innovations enhancing UN effectiveness, efficiency, and impact for people and planet

Benefits:

• Financial support (grant size varies by project)
• Tailored mentoring and scaling strategy development
• Access to UN80 innovation priorities and global networks

• Must be led by at least one UN entity (not open to non‑UN organizations alone)
• Project must have been piloted at least once with evidence of positive outcomes
• Must demonstrate readiness to scale and tangible results in development/humanitarian action
• Must integrate cross‑cutting themes: human rights, gender equality, diversity, inclusion