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Apply Now: $500,000 for African AI-Enabled Family Planning Tools
['Wayan Vota', 'Joann Canning']
ICTworks
Clinic-based counseling has not closed that gap at the scale or cost required, and the first generation of digital health tools mostly delivered one-way SMS blasts that could not answer a follow-up question.
The OpportunityThe Gates Grand Challenge for AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning offers grants of up to $500,000 over 12 months to organizations willing to deploy AI-driven conversational tools and measure whether they actually move contraceptive uptake, method continuation, and informed method choice.
Grantees must produce shared public goods: labeled conversation examples, quality rubrics, interaction taxonomies, and safety, confidentiality and guardrail protocols.
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