Location: Remote cohort programme. No geographic restriction is stated in the call, but the framing is India-centred: preference goes to problems involving multi-modal input and Indic languages.

Award: FLAG, UNVERIFIED: no grant amount, stipend, fee or compute credit is stated. What the call describes is hands-on implementation support, mentorship and expert guidance across three sprints; participating NGOs must invest one person's full bandwidth for the duration.

Duration: Six months, tentatively mid-September 2026 to January or February 2027 (subject to change)

Deadline: Closed 10 Aug 2026

The third round of Project Tech4Dev's AI Cohort, a hands-on implementation programme for NGOs designing, building and deploying responsible AI solutions inside their own programmes. Cohort 2.0 worked with seven NGOs across education, civic engagement, youth development and nonprofit technology, who built and piloted AI teaching assistants, volunteer coaches, mentoring tools and decision-support systems; the organisers' stated lesson was that adoption turns on understanding user needs, testing rapidly, measuring impact and building responsibly rather than on the technology itself. Cohort 3.0 is aimed at organisations ready to move past exploration into solutions that can be deployed in real-world settings. STRUCTURE (three sprints over roughly six months): Discovery Sprint (months 1 to 2) covering problem discovery, use-case prioritisation, data-readiness assessment, user research and solution design; Build Sprint (months 2 to 5) covering prototype development, implementation sprints, user testing, mentorship and responsible AI evaluations; and Activation Sprint (month 6) covering pilot deployment, impact assessment, operationalisation planning and a final showcase with peers and ecosystem partners. SELECTION CRITERIA: NGOs must show some in-house technical or data capability, ideally a dedicated person who can anchor the work (not necessarily an AI expert, but able to manage workflows, communicate operational requirements and work with mentors and experts); must commit one person's full bandwidth for the whole programme, including aligning leadership, adapting operations and making room to test, monitor and refine; and preference goes to problems involving multi-modal input, especially Indic languages, and to use cases built on LLMs. Applications are open to nonprofits across sectors, with priority to climate-focused organisations whose AI use cases could improve programme delivery, decision-making or community outcomes. Apply via the Google Form linked from the announcement before 10 August 2026.

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